OpenAI leader Sam Altman has a side job that involves trading cryptocurrencies. The coin was previously called Worldcoin, but that has now been changed to ‘World’. Moreover, he introduces an eyeball-scanning eyeball.
There was already an eyeball scanning device called Orb, but now that it has changed its name, Altman and his team decided to create a new Orb. The device is intended to confirm that someone is human in this AI era. You have a World ID, a kind of account, and as authentication you use that eyeball scanner to prove that you are human. The device has been made simpler than its predecessor, with 30 percent fewer parts. This should make the device more accessible to release in more places, the company says. It uses Nvidia’s AI platform Jetson.
World Orb
“To enable access for every human being, we need more Orbs: many more Orbs. A thousand times more than we have now. Not just more Orbs, but also more Orbs in more places,” said World. It even comes with a service called Orb on Demand that allows you to have an Orb delivered right away. It is also possible to rent them. The Orb can currently be pre-ordered in the Netherlands, and in addition to the United States, it is now available in Australia, Morocco and Indonesia, among others. World has now registered 7 million unique people, it says.
The fact that it is creating a global database of biometric data that is in private hands seems problematic for privacy, but many people have already been seduced by a World ID. But not everywhere: in Kenya, World was temporarily unavailable due to a data collection investigation. However, this investigation has now been completed. Portugal and Spain are also taking legal action against World, which is making the eye scan mandatory to use the crypto.
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Source: www.bright.nl
