The new Apple Watch will use microphone and other sensors to generate AI recaps of your day - 9to5Mac

That’s what I’ll be assuming

I wonder how this will be legally interpreted in states with two-party-consent recording laws

I think it’s doing on-device summarization. No transcript is retained or sent off.

It’s a clever idea, although obviously many consumers are nervous about a proliferation of always-listening devices. The feature will be opt-in and obviously, Apple will tout its stringent privacy-preserving implementation compared to the competition. Apple’s version will not actually store audio recordings, nor will it present a transcript of conversations.

Nothing changed in that regard. It doesn’t record audio, sound recognition runs on device. In the exact same way that all modern Apple devices (watches, phones, earbuds, …) can already listen for Hey Siri, and other brands listen for their wake words etc.

I think it will be functionally different than “recording”. When you talk to Siri or any other voice assistant, does it record your voice or simply transcribe it? This seems to be the latter.

I believe Apple Watch already ships with always on Siri, but I don’t know anyone who left that turned on.

Oh don't worry. All the other apple watches around you will do it just fine with your shadow account.

"chat, get this guy a gf, please"

Exactly. People love convenience until it removes the only actual benefits of the thing it's replacing, but by then they're dependent on it.

If it listens to things for you so you can look at them 10 seconds later when you realize you didn't hear, why should your brain even bother paying attention to ANYTHING in the moment? If it summarizes your day, how much less are you going to remember because you're just not forcing your brain to think about what you've done today?

I know for a fact I've gotten much better at remembering things that happen throughout my day after I started taking a note every day with what I did. If I had something recording it all for me, I'd just become even more reliant on that thing to even remember what happened at all.

We don't. But thankfully we don't have data brokers that can assemble all of it and make pretty little profiles of us all. That's why they need another 1500 data centers per year.

Turns out the monsters in A Quiet Place should have been real-world surveillance networks all along.

@xenomor
What vision? It’s a wrist watch (with extras), so it should look like one.

For the record: I hate wrist watches.

Are you complaining about the hardware or the face?

• Whats the point of changing the hardware? It’s a simple, shape, already comes in multiple sizes and has the number of buttons that fit.
• Why complain about the face? Use a different one and now your Apple Watch has more design variety than a couple of dumb watches