Cofounder of Lucyd, a crowdfunded tech eyewear corporation. App and product developer, lead inventor on several wearables patents. Co-creator of the Tekcapital IP search app, creator and lead developer of the Vyrb social app. Author of 11 chapbooks of poetry and one short story collection. Columbia Uni graduate.
Company: Innovative Eyewear
We are thrilled to have you join us today, welcome to ValiantCEO Magazine’s exclusive interview! Let’s start off with a little introduction. Tell our readers a bit about yourself and your company
Harrison Gross: Hi I’m Harrison Gross, CEO of Innovative Eyewear. I’m a patented wearables inventor and I’ve been developing smartglasses since 2017. My company’s mission is to upgrade the world’s eyewear by adding useful tech features to comfortable, stylish prescription-ready glasses.
What specific areas of your business have been most impacted by AI, and how?
Harrison Gross: Mostly on the sales side – many customers have come to us looking for a more fluid way to access AI, which we provide with our GPT integration.
How are you ensuring ethical considerations are taken into account in your use of AI?
Harrison Gross: Well for example, data security is extremely important for our users who are accessing GPT through the Lucyd platform. So it’s important that this data is de-identified from users and kept secure. We believe it’s important not to access this private data or allow it to be accessed by a third party, so we never share it externally and keep it stored on secure servers only for the purpose of debugging the app.
What advice would you give to other CEOs looking to integrate AI into their business?
Harrison Gross: Make sure you are focused on the “killer app”, and have a truly justified use case that offers something different from the rapidly proliferating AI tools out there today. In our case, that was the custom integration with Siri and Bixby to make the AI accessible totally handsfree.
How do you see AI evolving in your industry over the next 5 years?
Harrison Gross: We’re already seeing some very exciting developments with AI being used to surface prescription lenses to a higher degree of accuracy. Not to mention all of the potential it has to make communications and information access on smart eyewear easier.