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Meta's Smart Glasses Are Becoming Artificially Intelligent. We Took Them for ...


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Spatial co-ordinations are initially random, and will automatically re-arrange to minimize complexity based on distance between relationships. Mouse down and drag to pan. Right click on the strategic diagram toggles between motion and stationary. Hover over abstract node (orange) to view abstractions. Hover over leaf node to view corresponding narrative. Left click on the leaf node expands the narrative to view full text.

Narrative Analysis - Report

Key Focus

  • software, they can be used to scan famous landmarks, translate languages and identify animal breeds and exotic fruits, among other tasks.. . To use the A.I. software, wearers just say, "Hey, Meta," followed by a prompt, such as "Look and tell me what kind of dog this is." The A.I ...
  • could describe the imagery and what media was used to compose the art - which would be nice for an art history student - but it couldn't identify the artist or title. (A Meta spokesman said another software update it released after my museum visit improved this ability.) ...
  • No momentum supporting factor found

    Challenge supporting factors

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  • (software,intelligence,artificial,meta)
  • (software,intelligence,meta)
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  • Work-in-progress supporting factors

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  • (meta,wearers)
  • (meta,software,the_a)
  • (meta,software,student)
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  • (meta,landmarks,breeds)
  • (meta,chinese)
  • (meta,zebras)
  • (meta,wojack)
  • (meta,wheel)

  • Time PeriodChallengeMomentumWIP
    Report28.89 0.00 71.12

    High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

    High Level Abstraction (HLA)Report
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    (2) (meta,wearers)98.18
    (3) (meta,software,the_a)94.55
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    (11) (meta,landmarks,breeds)60.00
    (12) (meta,chinese)56.36
    (13) (meta,zebras)54.55
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    (18) (software,intelligence,artificial,technology)41.82
    (19) (software,intelligence,technology)36.36
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    (21) (software,intelligence,artificial,meta)25.45
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    Supporting narratives:

    Please refer to knowledge diagram for a complete set of supporting narratives.

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • A Meta spokesman said that because the technology was still new, the artificial intelligence wouldn't always get things right, and that feedback would improve the glasses over time ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (software,artificial,technology)
        • (software,intelligence,artificial,meta)
        • (software,intelligence,technology)
        • (software,intelligence,artificial,technology)
        • (software,artificial,meta)
        • (software,intelligence,meta)
        • Inferred entity relationships (8)
        • (software,technology) [inferred]
        • (artificial,intelligence,software,technology) [inferred]
        • (intelligence,meta,software) [inferred]
        • (intelligence,software,technology) [inferred]
        • (artificial,intelligence,meta,software) [inferred]
        • (meta,software,student) [inferred]
        • (meta,software,wearers) [inferred]
        • (meta,software,the_a) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • A Meta spokesman said that because the technology was still new, the artificial intelligence wouldn't always get things right, and that feedback would improve the glasses over time. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (software,technology)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • software, they can be used to scan famous landmarks, translate languages and identify animal breeds and exotic fruits, among other tasks.. . To use the A.I. software, wearers just say, "Hey, Meta," followed by a prompt, such as "Look and tell me what kind of dog this is." The A.I ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (meta,software,wearers)
        • (meta,wearers)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (meta,software,student) [inferred]
        • (meta,software,the_a) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • software, wearers just say, "Hey, Meta," followed by a prompt, such as "Look and tell me what kind of dog this is." The A.I. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (meta,software,the_a)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (meta,software,student) [inferred]
        • (meta,software,wearers) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • could describe the imagery and what media was used to compose the art - which would be nice for an art history student - but it couldn't identify the artist or title. (A Meta spokesman said another software update it released after my museum visit improved this ability.) ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (meta,software,student)
        • (software,student)
        • Inferred entity relationships (3)
        • (software,student) [inferred]
        • (meta,software,wearers) [inferred]
        • (meta,software,the_a) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • . Meta's software also created transcripts of our questions and the A.I.'s responses, which we captured in screenshots. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (meta,software,questions)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • To use the A.I. software, wearers just say, "Hey, Meta," followed by a prompt, such as "Look and tell me what kind of dog this is." The A.I ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (meta,software,prompt)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • could describe the imagery and what media was used to compose the art - which would be nice for an art history student - but it couldn't identify the artist or title ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (meta,software,media)
        • Inferred entity relationships (3)
        • (meta,software,student) [inferred]
        • (meta,software,wearers) [inferred]
        • (meta,software,the_a) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • software, they can be used to scan famous landmarks, translate languages and identify animal breeds and exotic fruits, among other tasks. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (meta,software,landmarks)
        • (meta,landmarks,breeds)
        • Inferred entity relationships (4)
        • (meta,software,student) [inferred]
        • (meta,software,wearers) [inferred]
        • (landmarks,meta,software) [inferred]
        • (meta,software,the_a) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • can do things like translate languages and identify landmarks through a pair of hip-looking glasses shows how far the tech has come. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (meta,landmarks,hip-looking)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (landmarks,meta,software) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • BRIAN: At a Chinese restaurant, I pointed at a menu item written in Chinese and asked Meta to translate it into English, but the A.I ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (meta,chinese)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • So I recently paid a visit to the Oakland Zoo in Oakland, Calif., where, for two hours, I gazed at about a dozen animals, including parrots, tortoises, monkeys and zebras. I said: "Hey, Meta, look and tell me what kind of animal that is." ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (meta,zebras)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The artificial intelligence technology in Meta's new Ray-Ban smart glasses uses cameras and image recognition to give the wearer information about what he or she is looking at.Credit...Aaron Wojack for The New York Times. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (meta,wojack)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • As I drove home from the city to my house in Oakland, I asked Meta what bridge I was on while looking out the window in front of me (both hands on the wheel, of course). ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (meta,wheel)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Hilarity, wonder and lots of mistakes ensued.. . In a sign that the tech industry keeps getting weirder, Meta soon plans to release a big update that transforms the Ray-Ban Meta, its camera glasses that shoot videos, into a gadget seen only in sci-fi movies ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (meta,weirder)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The glasses, which come in various frames starting at $300 and lenses starting at $17, have mostly been used for shooting photos and videos and listening to music ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (software,various)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The glasses, which come in various frames starting at $300 and lenses starting at $17, have mostly been used for shooting photos and videos and listening to music. But with the new A.I. software, they can be used to scan famous landmarks, translate languages and identify animal breeds and exotic fruits, among other tasks ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (software,shooting)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • software is so novel and quirky that when we - Brian X. Chen, a tech columnist who reviewed the Ray-Bans last year, and Mike Isaac, who covers Meta and wears the smart glasses to produce a cooking show - heard about it, we were dying to try it ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (software,ray-bans)