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An overhead view of a neighbourhood of houses and trees

06Chapter Six

The intelligencestays in the house.

Hoyfo does not send your parents' life to a data centre to be understood. The models are small enough to run on a box on a shelf, and they are pointed at exactly one question: does today look like their normal day?

  1. 01

    It learns one household.

    There is no global model of how people should live. Over the first two weeks the Hub learns the rhythm of this house — when the gate opens, when the kitchen wakes, which door is the one that always closes last — by watching the cameras and listening to the sensors together, and measures it against nobody else.

  2. 02

    Language, not footage.

    The output of the model is a sentence: 'Dad returned home at 6:40 pm.' That sentence, and at most a few low-resolution stills your family approved, is all that ever travels.

  3. 03

    Wrong is a design problem.

    A confident wrong answer is worse than no answer. When the Hub is unsure it says so plainly, and it will always rather say 'quieter than usual today' than invent a reason.

No training on your household. Not now, not later.