Get the latest tech news

A Guide Dog for the Face-Blind

Whatever the cause of cognitive overload, a personal intelligence can help In my grad-school dorm there were four blind students, and they all coped in different ways. Most impressive was Jeff, whose wealthy family was able to provide him with key support technology, notably a talking computer (a bigger deal

Prosopagnosics cope by noting salient features like hairstyle, glasses, and facial hair, which is why it makes us crazy when people change any of those things. For the ASIMOV Protocol startup I have been attending conferences about AI and knowledge representation–to recognize those participants again I would need my personal context window set appropriately. Projects like Positron from ASIMOV Protocol hint at what is possible: quiet intelligence that augments without intruding, remembers without judging, and lets us stay human in an increasingly digital world.

Get the Android app