Indian-origin Innovator Brings 'Infinite Memory' To Life With AI-Powered Iris. Here's What It Is

A revolutionary wearable AI, Iris, which offers users an ‘infinite memory’ of their lives has been introduced to the Indian market. The device, created by an Indian-origin techie, takes a photo each minute thereby giving individuals an opportunity to record moments they may not have otherwise.

It either saves the photos on the device or in the cloud. Iris was recently promoted on social media by its creator Advait Paliwal.

Not only does Iris create a timeline of photographs but also it uses AI to write captions and help people to remember forgotten details. One of the features is a so-called “focus mode,” which captures the moments of distraction and tries to assist the user in paying attention. In his blog post, the San Francisco-based businessman said the design of the device was based on the evil eye symbol.

Iris was created by Paliwal during the two months he spent at the Augmentation Lab in Cambridge, as per NDTV. He then presented the device at the MIT Media Lab. The presentation generated a favourable response from the participants, most of whom looked forward to buying the device.

There are many general ways that Paliwal imagines Iris could be useful. These include helping doctors to get a grasp of patients’ schedules or improving the measures of safety in a particular working environment.

Despite the exciting characteristics, Iris has led to privacy issues. It is worth noting that some users have been particularly unhappy about such a gadget with a minute camera. Regarding these concerns, Paliwal said that people “take mental photos” anyway and highlighted that consumers can exclusively determine the proper functioning of the device.

A user said, “It’s an interesting concept, but I wouldn’t want to interact with someone who had this on, taking a photo every minute.”

Meanwhile, another user appreciated the efforts saying, “There are a bunch of failed startups in this category, Google Clip, Memento, but what they did not had was AI. So this could work. Great work.”

“Looks great, what are the privacy guarantees”, asked another user.

Yet another user stated, “Love the idea. The design and the name are perfect. Great work!”

It’s interesting to note that Paliwal likened the gadget to an episode from Black Mirror. He said in his blog post that Iris addresses a lot of the same topics as Entire History of You, the third episode of Black Mirror’s first season. It demonstrates how our society would alter if people were able to simply record their everyday activities.