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The Paragraphica is the weirdest AI camera so far

Jun 2, 2023 by John Aldred Add Comment
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On the topic of weird AI cameras, the Paragraphica has to be the weirdest I’ve seen so far. Like the Black Box Camera we featured a couple of months ago, this one creates an image using AI. Unlike the Black Box Camera, which takes a picture of the scene, uses AI to determine what’s in the scene and then uses that to generate a prompt for the AI to make an image, this one uses GPS data.

There’s no lens at all on this “camera”. It figures out where you are based on the GPS data. From there, it determines the time of day, weather conditions and what your surroundings look like. This generates the prompt that the Paragraphica uses to create its output image. Not surprisingly, it’s powered by a Raspberry Pi.

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Humane is a mysterious wearable AI camera startup that’s raised $230M

Mar 16, 2023 by John Aldred Add Comment
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A company by the name of Humane, founded by husband and wife team Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, both former Apple executives, has raised $230,000,000. This figure is after the Series C round of fundraising that added $100m to its existing kitty. It’s a somewhat secretive company but their goal seems to be to bring to market wearable AI cameras. But beyond that, there aren’t really many details, save for a few blurry screenshots.

What is clear is that Humane has teamed up with Microsoft and OpenAI to leverage human AI experiences at a large scale. The company says they are also working with LG to develop potential R&D projects for future Humane products and their core technology. Exactly what it will offer, though, is still pretty unclear. Both figuratively and literally, from looking at the screenshots.

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This weird camera uses AI to recreate the scene before it

Mar 10, 2023 by John Aldred 1 Comment
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This is one of the oddest and most curious cameras I’ve ever seen. It has a lens and a sensor and can actually record the real scene in front of you, but it doesn’t do that. Instead, it detects what’s in your scene using AI and turns it into a text description. This text description is then fed into an image-generating AI whereby it makes an image based on that description. And that’s the “photo” you end up with.

As I said, it’s a curious camera and a very interesting concept. The camera itself is very unassuming. Essentially it’s a twin-lens camera, much like a twin-lens reflex (without the reflex bit), in a big black box. It has a waist-level viewfinder on top and the actual camera lens below, along with a big red shutter button on the front. Shortly after you hit that button, it spits out an Instax print of the AI-generated scene.

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