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There is a Ted talk demo of this product https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMsQO5u7-NQ



Hosting an infomercial for a product that no one has had the opportunity to review must be a new low for TED.


It’s interesting I can’t find the Elizabeth Holmes TED talk in full anywhere. Even in the documentaries the clips have been cut to carefully exclude the logo.


Calling it a demo seems a bit of a stretch. The clearest red flag comes at 7:03, when the device translates his speech into French without him asking for it to be translated. This screams of "staged."

Given the device lacks a ship date, price, or overview of how it works beyond hand-waving "AI," I'd say the Ted Talk was the live version of a concept video, and just another PR move to get anything out there a month ahead of Apple's Vision Pro unveiling.




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