Comment on Noise-canceling robots to 'mute' loud conversations in cafe | What if we told you that we can actually silence a noisy table right next to us in a café?

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Given that noise cancellation thus far as involved multiple microphones to identify background noise - yes

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  • Ryantific_theory@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why does every cool innovation have to have an immediately applicable shitty implication 😭

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    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Eh, everything can be used shitty, but it’s often more work to use a cool thing shitty than it is to just be shitty.
      Like you could do this, or you can put a cheap directional mic in the ceiling where it has free access to power.

      Being able to beat someone to death with a defibrillator doesn’t undermine it’s value as a life saving tool.

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      • Ryantific_theory@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I mean, in this case all they need to do is attach data storage, and suddenly they have a massive data set of natural human conversation to sell to whoever’s training AI.

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• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This tech isn’t at all needed to spy on you.

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• topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why would they do this ? They already do it through your smartphone.

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They’re different people.

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• prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was going to say, wouldn’t this require recording of literally every noise around you in order to cancel it out?

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They already do that in order to cancel everyone sounds, your conversation is the noise of the next table.

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