Smart Glasses Proliferate
The smart glasses concept is taking off. On Monday, Reuters reported that Amazon was developing smart glasses for its delivery workers to help provide them with directions. Today the Financial Times reported that Baidu, the Chinese search giant, is developing its own smart glasses for consumers.
According to the FT report, Baidu’s smart glasses will offer many of the features available on the Meta Ray-Ban glasses already on the market. The Ray-Bans enable wearers to play music or make phone calls, take photos and ask Meta AI for help. Regular wearers can attest that they work well, even if the AI assistant is still very primitive.
Baidu’s AI will be based on the company’s large language model, known as Ernie, and will help wearers “track calorie consumption,” among other things, according to the FT. On that point, caution is warranted. It’s hard to believe an LLM can accurately provide calorie information just from looking at an item of food, at least based on existing technology. When I uploaded a photo of a bag of peanuts to Google Gemini and asked how many calories were in the bag, for instance, Gemini responded that it was difficult to say.
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