New AI Gadget Records Your Entire Life and Then Lies to You About What Happened

In a review as humorous as it was dystopian, The Verge's Victoria Song described what it was like to wear Bee, an inexpensive new AI wearable pin, for a month — and how it sometimes spat out "fanfiction" about her life as it listened to everything she said and did. Billed as an AI "memory" device alongside an iOS app and chatbot, the Bee "Pioneer band" costs a piddling $50 and looks, as Song wrote, "like a 2015-era Fitbit." With such a low overhead, there are bound to be quirks — but as the columnist suggested, those quirks seem to outweigh Bee's value proposition of remembering things its wearer forgets. Because it's AI, one of Bee's more interesting aspects is its daily fact-checking sessions. Every evening at 8 pm, the app asks users to confirm or deny various things it overheard and inferred, some of which were creepy and a lot of which were straight-up incorrect. During a bus ride Song took, for instance, the app became convinced that she had a patient in Louisiana who was goin ... Read full article.