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This phone app taps into your location info, social media, text history, call logs, calendar, camera, audio, webcams, traffic cams, security cams, medical records, and any other app or data source it feels necessary to accomplish its task.
The Task: To predict “the last place” you would look for a
lost or misplaced item. Since we always find the thing - if we do - in the last place we look, this AI analyses the data and predicts your likely path to recover it, eliminating the intermediate attempts and directing you to your “last place.”
The prompt identifies the thing and gives a range of time in which the loss likely occurred. Further refinements by size, color, material, companions, etc. can narrow the search.
Of course, it is necessary to balance the importance of recovering the thing against the massive breaches in your security such an app would impose. This may already be baked but it is not being used to find your glasses.
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The reason most people find things in the last place they look for them, is because finding the item triggers the cessation of looking activity. |
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I think I am now curious about this minority if people who don't stop looking once they have found what they are looking for. I think these might be interesting people. |
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I have discovered that if you look for something in the obvious place and don't find it - and then also haven't find it after exhausting all the other likely places - it's really, /really/ worth going back and looking in that first place again, more carefully. |
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While looking for something there's the common occurrence of finding stuff along the way that was believed to be totally lost. These items are now entered into the vast bank of stuff that the AI considers "wins." There is some debate as to whether these random successes should be credited, or just logged. The AI has a good argument. |
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The more stuff you lose and request the AI to find that "last place," the better the AI becomes and actually starts to warn you when you are about to lose track of something. |
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"Hey Bozo, you just walked away from your credit card on the checkout counter at AutoZone. Again." |
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//The prompt identifies the thing and gives a range of time in which the loss likely occurred.// |
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This is clearly where they're headed with the glasses stuff. Facial/object/spatial recognition and subsequent logging. Real video recording is quite data heavy, will be for a while unless something spectacular happens in data storage. Instead they'll do what they already did with audio, rather than directly recording they'll just log that you said the word "laundry", they'll log the times and places you said it Then the Tide ad will turn up. It's possible that the same tech could be used for people to track all their things, but unless it makes money, who's going to bother? Oh, right, I lost my passport. Upgrade to $15.99/month premium subscription to unlock which room it's in. $25.78 tells you it's in the inside pocket of the blue jacket. |
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//The reason most people find things in the last place they look for them, is because finding the item triggers the cessation of looking activity.// |
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File it with the many sayings that are mad. "It's always in the last place you look" Who carries on looking after you find something? Is it really in the last place you WOULD look? I mean, you found the remote in the fridge in your house, not balanced on a prayer wheel in Tibet. "They don't suffer fools gladly!" Who does? "It'll be better before you're married" It's diabetes. |
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The possuk (verse, actually a saying from the Talmud) is: |
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Amar Rabbee Binyamin or (Omar Rabbee Binyomin) [said Rabbi Benjamin: |
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Hakkol beh-Hezkat Sumin [Jewish Aramaic: everyone is held blind] |
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Ad Sheyavo Hakadosh Baruch Hu (Ad Sheyovo Hakodoshboruchu) [until he comes, the holy blessed one] |
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Vyifkah et eineihem [and opens their eyes] |
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Mehacha: Vayifkah Hashem et Enneha [From here: And God opened her eyes] |
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This "prayer" refers to the biblical story of Hagar who didn't see the water till god opened her eyes. I saw it on my mother's fridge. It works every time. |
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