AI Glasses Become a 'Second Memory' as SKT Adds Photo Logs to A.
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SK Telecom said on the 31st that it will offer the 'A. log' feature in the A. app.
The feature lets AI automatically organize and search photos taken with Meta's AI glasses and Android smartphones in the A. app.
AI generates titles, descriptions, and content-specific tags, and sensitive information such as resident registration numbers is automatically masked before the originals are not stored on servers.
SK Telecom announced on the 31st that it will offer the 'A. log' feature in the A. app. The target devices are Meta's AI glasses and Android smartphones, and the feature supports AI-powered automatic organization and search for captured photos.
The new feature lets users use photos taken with Meta's AI glasses and Android smartphones within the A. app. Moments seen through AI glasses are recorded as photos, and AI analyzes the information in those photos and stores the analysis. Users can then search for the information again when needed.
Through this, SK Telecom is using AI glasses as a new input channel for A. It described the move as an effort to expand personal AI service touchpoints beyond the smartphone and into wearable devices.
A. log, which presents the role of AI glasses as AI's 'eyes' beyond that of a camera, is distinguished by its focus on the step after taking a photo, where AI organizes and classifies the information. When a user takes a photo, post-processing is carried out as AI analyzes the image information.
In this process, AI generates titles, descriptions, and content-specific tags. The organized records let users search for needed information again using time or keywords, even if they do not remember exactly when they took the photo.
For example, if a user takes a photo of a concert poster with AI glasses, the system organizes the concert name, date and time, and location into record categories. Items subject to automatic classification include business cards, receipts, whiteboards, meeting materials, parking locations, and posters.
Users can access the feature either by taking photos directly with the A. log camera in the A. app or by importing images from their existing photo albums. The scope also includes existing photos in smartphone albums.
Both directly captured images and imported images are analyzed by AI in the same way. SK Telecom is listed as the photo source.
The point drawing attention in this service is the combination of A. and AI glasses. Unlike smartphones, AI glasses can instantly capture what a user is looking at, and when combined with AI-based image analysis and search, their role expands beyond a simple wearable camera into an AI input device for collecting users' daily lives.
The A. log feature automatically connects photos captured by Meta AI glasses to A. Users can enable automatic linking in A. log at the upper left of the A. app, and once set up, photos taken with AI glasses can be used as records. Supported models cover all Meta AI glasses, including Ray-Ban Meta Gen2.
The focus of the use cases SK Telecom presented is remembering everyday information. When looking for a receipt or product warranty captured during a business trip, users can search by entering remembered words instead of manually browsing through their photo albums. Example search terms included 'last month's business trip receipt' and 'air purifier warranty.'
The competitive field for generative AI services is expanding from chatbots that answer questions to personalized AI that accumulates daily information and brings it back when needed. This trend aligns with a broader shift toward storing each user's information and reusing it when necessary.
Amid this trend, SK Telecom strengthened photo-based record functions while also considering privacy during the photo analysis process. If sensitive information such as a resident registration number is included in a photo, it is automatically masked before analysis, and in particular, original captured photos are not stored on servers but kept only on the user's device.
SK Telecom plans to link A. log with its existing 'A. note' in the future. A. log handles photos, while Note handles memos, and the goal is to connect the two into a record service that allows integrated searches of past photos and memos.
Jang Seong-guk, head of AI Service Development at SK Telecom, said A. log is a feature that expands the usefulness of new devices capable of capturing moments, such as AI glasses, into the experience of everyday recordkeeping. He added that the company plans to continue enhancing the A. service so users can easily record and reuse information in various formats, including photos and memos.
Source: IT DAILY · Lee Jae-young
Original: https://www.itdaily.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=241303
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