It’s funny because, ycombinator loudly boasts that, ideally, it seeks to fund billion dollar ideas, and yet I so very much do not want a thing like this.
Computer vision is this incredible thing, until you realize it means you’ll be in front of a camera you cannot control, and that camera will require broadband internet, if not for a one-time activation, then perhaps continuously and indefinitely.
I’ve never seen a high-end electronic device produced after 2010 restrict itself from the internet. No company seems have the self control necessary to consider even the idea. No internet? Impossible!
What kind of echo chamber would shout down such an idea? Do people understand why I might worry about a camera with unrestricted internet access? Why must I trust anything so deeply?
I don’t want to hear about how I should just give up this fight, because I’ve already lost anyway. I don’t care about what other devices already do. I don’t care about how different this time is.
Computer vision is this incredible thing, until you realize it means you’ll be in front of a camera you cannot control, and that camera will require broadband internet, if not for a one-time activation, then perhaps continuously and indefinitely.
I’ve never seen a high-end electronic device produced after 2010 restrict itself from the internet. No company seems have the self control necessary to consider even the idea. No internet? Impossible!
What kind of echo chamber would shout down such an idea? Do people understand why I might worry about a camera with unrestricted internet access? Why must I trust anything so deeply?
I don’t want to hear about how I should just give up this fight, because I’ve already lost anyway. I don’t care about what other devices already do. I don’t care about how different this time is.