{"id":119295,"date":"2025-11-05T13:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119295\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:08:10","slug":"finally-an-ai-device-i-dont-immediately-despise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119295\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, an AI Device I Don\u2019t Immediately Despise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Something remarkable happened the other day: I tried an AI device I didn\u2019t instinctively loathe. It was a smart ring, created by two former Meta Platforms Inc. employees, that finally met some of the key criteria I think about when it comes to wearable tech and artificial intelligence, an intersection already fraught with failure and no shortage of justifiable anger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Let\u2019s call it the Molotov\u2019s Test \u2014 the likelihood of attracting unwanted attention as a result of using wearable technology, so-named after one of San Francisco\u2019s best dive bars, where a wearer of the much-maligned Google Glass headset was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/sarah-slocum-the-infamous-face-of-google-glass-5348911.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">harassed in 2014<\/a>. Of course, that\u2019s not to be condoned. But the Molotov\u2019s Test serves as a useful starting framework: I don\u2019t think any new device can go mainstream without passing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Something remarkable happened the other day: I tried an AI device I didn\u2019t instinctively loathe. It was a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,16544,5892,363,364,501,32470,1767,111,139,69,13081,9743,4535,1046,145,9880],"class_list":{"0":"post-119295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","10":"tag-apple-inc","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-meta-platforms-inc-class-a","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-real-estate","20":"tag-san-francisco","21":"tag-smartphone","22":"tag-startups","23":"tag-technology","24":"tag-view"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}