There's a new one being launched by a San Francisco-based startup that has some impressive specs, is powered by Linux, and isn't looking to sell user data.

...yet.

This is not an open source project. We covered it because the operating system for this is based on Linux.

It's (not) FOSS

Some use cases the company points to include hands-free coding agents, reading board schematics mid-build, following a recipe in the kitchen, and keeping sheet music in view while playing an instrument.

We're trying really hard to come up with justifications to normalize people wearing a camera and microphone on their face all the time.

Before you get worried, Raven Prism will ship with a physical cover for the camera that you remove when you want to use it and put back when you don't.

Which people will discard or lose within a month, especially if it looks like a weird extra piece attached to the frame.

There's also "Beakon" lights that illuminate when the camera is active, making it visible to both the wearer and anyone nearby.

Which will get disabled almost immediately.

So dumb anybody will question it, not parallel enough to the truth it becomes conspiracy.

Just as general warning, I'll point out that there are a fair number of people who believe that the Earth is flat.

So... your complaint is that you're really bad at selling a product that has a high demand... ?

First of all, rude.

Just to be clear about that, it's not that France objects to broad surveillance on moral grounds, they just don't want to be dependent on the US to provide the surveillance.

The mistake has been thinking this implies LLMs can never do X task

As this article points out, an LLM can spit out chunks of regurgitated code that it scraped from the internet, but that does not make the LLM a programmer. The resulting output is an attempt to find an existing pattern in the database which fits with what the user has asked for, but it is not a product of actually understanding the use case for the code. It is just statistical correlation.

So, sure, an LLM can be set up to generate output related to X task. If you can collect and clean data that can be used to train the kind of output you want, it should be able to produce an approximate facsimile of the results you want. Is that valuable for your use case? Maybe.

We're still just talking about what is essentially a complex search function. The statistical model returns results from its database that correlate most closely to your input. That does not mean it returns the right answer. If there is no good correlation, it will still return a result.

As long as you understand that the result you get is just a correlation based on your input and may or may not be relevant to your specific problem, and you are not fooled into believing that the LLM actually understands what you're asking and produced a result by "thinking" about it, then you might be able to use an LLM as an effective tool - to search a large collection of information for something that is relevant(ish) to what you're asking for.

The real mistake has been broad misunderstanding of what LLMs actually do, and trying to use them as general-purpose problem solving tools (or worse, as accurate and reliable sources of information).

Not really.

A machine learning model is a computer program. It is fundamentally a math equation, which we understand completely.

A living brain is not fundamentally a math equation, and is not purely a statistical model, at least not in any empirically demonstrable way. We don't understand completely how it works, but we do know that it's more complex than what you're trying to imply.

The comparison is not valid. Machine learning models are not an equivalent to a biological brain.

Um... but it is just a sophisticated statistical model... that's literally what the math underpinning machine learning models is... and all it can do is make associations based on correlations within the field of the training data. That's what it does.

What other things have you been touching, before you go touching me? Where has that hand been?