Despite the critical panning the unit rightfully deserved, the AI Pin harbors some pretty cool ideas.

I can see three of those ideas finding their way into smartphones or becoming a reality as standalone devices.

That said, I can imagine a future where we use affordable universal translators.

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No full-fledged operating system would be needed.

With the arrival ofGPT-4o, this doesnt sound like a far-fetched dream anymore.

Definitely beats using human translators or your phone.

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You could then use that assistant to control your phone only through voice commands.

Privacy issues andcurrent problemsGoogle and the gang have with LLMs aside, this could be the killer LLM feature.

For starters, each and every chat app should come with end-to-end encryption enabled by default.

This is a basic privacy feature and, sadly, many chat apps dont offer it.

Even if they do, in most cases, end-to-end encryption isnt enabled by default.