"Tell me about yourself." For some, it's a dreaded phrase that can ruin a blind date or a job interview from the get-go. One Stanford student has designed exactly that, using ChatGPT and AR monocles to act as his own Cortana, helping him through his daily routine like a master chief.

Bryan Hau-Ping Chiang (opens in new tab) (spotted by Tom's Hardware (opens in new tab)) has created a digital assistant that he calls "an operating system for your entire life." He has created a prototype. Speech recognition software listens to your conversations and sends them to ChatGPT, which spits out responses that appear in the lens of an open-source AR monocle (opens in new tab) that clips to your glasses. It can even recognize the person's face.

Brian has published a series of tweets showing how the prototype works. The technology goes by several playful names, including lifeOS and rizzGPT, but they all do much the same thing. In one example, it scans a friend's face and "brings up relevant details to talk about based on emails with that friend." All somewhat disingenuous, but it's not hard to imagine this kind of technology actually being used someday by an AI assistant that scans and identifies a stranger's face and draws out facts and talking points based on that person's social media posts. If you can get past the "scanning people's faces without their consent," are comfortable interacting with other people through language model proxies, and the wait is not so long that you are standing there staring at them while you wait for the monocle to spit out the relevant information, an instant ice breaker will be possible.

In another application, an AI assistant could help you choose a dish at a restaurant (open in new tab), analyzing the menu and making quick recommendations based on the user's past taste preferences. The best example of this technology in action, however, is during a mock interview (open in new tab), where it returns appropriate (though not necessarily true) answers to the interviewer's questions.

As is, there is a fairly long delay before getting a response, causing an awkward silence. And this prototype monocle cannot be called discrete, either. Apple's planned AR glasses (opens in new tab) might offer something more fashionable (although Google Glass didn't particularly catch on and gave people the creeps). Recall the scene in Spider-Man: Far From Home where Peter Parker gets AI-powered AR glasses (opens in new tab). But instead of spying on your friends or operating a deadly drone, you can remind your co-workers that you recently went on vacation. More practical, I suppose.

Chiang is asking the community for other situations where this technology could be tried. My suggestion would be to let me know the best response to get away from the speeding ticket.