The Eye-Scanning Orb is a new look that will come right to your door
Worldcoin: Orb On Demand for a Human-grade AI World, and How to Distinguish From Bots by Scanning Iris
It’s also launching a new service called “Orb on Demand” (yes, it’s really called that) that will let people order Orbs “much like a pizza you would have delivered to your apartment,” Heley said. The Orb is coming to a number of other countries, including Costa Rica, Brazil, Indonesia, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates.
There is a new look to this Orb. Tools for Humanity says that it provides nearly 5X the artificial intelligence performance of another system for identity verification. It’s still weird because None of this makes it less strange.
Tools for Humanity chief device officer Rich Heley said during the keynote that they needed to have a thousand more orbs than they already have.
Worldcoin, then, is the ultimate attempt at tech solutionism: A human-grade AI world that Altman is building might also be technologically regulated by a tool that Altman has his hands in.
He teamed up with technologist Alex Blania to turn the idea into a reality. In a world of rapidly advancing AI, they theorized, it would be important for a human to prove they were not a bot. The answer they came up with relied on individuals using iris-scanning tech to generate private tokens that would verify their identities around the world.
500 event attendees will receive a new Orb when it ships in 2025, and all event attendees can have their iris scanned today, according to a spokesman for Tools for humanity.
World vs. Kenya: a Trusted and Secure Platform to Verify Humanness in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Tailand)
The suspension of World by Kenya last year resulted from its investigation of its data collection practices. Hong Kong asked World to stop all operations in the country over privacy risks, while both Portugal and Spain have also taken action against the project.
World says it has verified more than 7 million people so far, despite privacy concerns related to a private database.
People registered to the system get a World ID that they can use to “securely and anonymously” prove their humanness online, as well as a share of its associated WLD cryptocurrency token.
Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency / human identity network / UBI project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is now known as World. In addition, World introduced an updated version of its Orb device which is designed to solve a problem that isn’t currentlyexistent: detecting that someone is human in the age of AI.