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Jony Ive's First OpenAI Device Will Be Smart Speaker With Camera, 2027 Launch Planned

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lepetitnicolas said:
A smart speaker with a camera 🥱
Welcome to the decade where everything will be "smart" and have cameras.

In some years you'll be buying food and you'll have the choice between the smart carrot with a camera or the smart potato with multiple cameras all around it, the smart lettuce with the removable s.n.a.i.l camera module, the smart whatever and all those cameras everywhere. And when you'll come back to your smart home at the end of the day with all your smart foods to put in your smart fridge (which will also be a car by the way) and start talking to your smart assistant about which smart meal to make you'll be.... just an other dumb person lost in a "smart" world.

I hade to admit one thing : this is not a smart comment.
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Smart foods with nano-cameras equipped with AI to screen for colon cancer are probably only a matter of time so this isn’t so far fetched.
 
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Camera = 0 chance of me using it.

Smart speaker? I have that now with Siri - and when it has ChatGPT integration, that's all I'll need.

But the bigger problem with a speaker-only interface? Drift and hallucination. By combining multiple topics into a single conversation, you invite that...and if it's transactional vs over time, then that's not much use.
 
coolfactor said:
I don't recognize this forum anymore. Any topic on AI brings out absolute ugliness and ignorance in the comments.

For anyone truly interested in understanding where AI is going, and where the world will be in 5 years, there are several podcasts that do educated deep dives into the topic. Casual users of ChatGPT are not experts, and that likely includes you! 🤓

A few excellent podcasts:
  • NVIDIA AI Podcast
  • The Last Invention
  • This Day in AI (by an entertaining Australian brother duo)
I share the sentiment that Ive's participation with OpenAi is just weird and feels like a betrayal. I'm curious to know how he truly feels about Apple these days. Apple is barely getting a mention by the AI experts, and it will be fascinating to see how that changes over the next 12 months.

I was in a buddy's Tesla yesterday and he brought up Grok on the console. It was mind-blowing how you could just casually chat with Grok (with her sexy voice) while driving. There were some delays as she prepared her responses, but the experience was incredible. A year from now, that's exactly what Siri will be, at least we can hope!
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Yes, this (the part I bolded) sounds like a **** future and is exactly the type of thing many people don’t care for in their lives. We don’t find it “mind blowing”, we would rather see pushes towards more human interaction with, well, other humans. Not wanting our lives invaded and mediated by various billionaires strategies to garner insane wealth and power is not, as you call it, ignorance.

I would argue that tech fetishism, acceptance of an surveillance state, obsessions with “cognitive offloading”, the destruction of traditional and analog arts and billionaire definitions of “progress” are what is ignorant.

If you are seeing a forum full of posters who you apparently once respected or at least enjoyed interacting with largely turning against AI, it might be worth stopping to ask more critical questions about the why of it all, rather than telling said people they are ignorant.

We DO understand what the AI future looks like, and our opinion is that we do not like it.
 
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oceptis said:
Oh HELL no!
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"OpenAI's smart speaker has an integrated camera and it is designed to learn information about who is using it and what's around them. It will include a facial recognition feature similar to Face ID... the speaker will have AI integration"

In a word... horrible

What privacy?

No, absolutely NO!
 
So an AI speaker. I thought this was going to be an amazing and revolutionary device. How is this different than what’s already out.
 
I’m looking forward to seeing what they come up with. Competition is a great thing and it will be nice to have an actual smart speaker when Apple inevitably delays “Smart Siri” yet again.

That doesn’t mean I’ll buy it, but more companies entering the marketplace is a good thing.
 
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lepetitnicolas said:
In some years you'll be buying food and you'll have the choice between the smart carrot with a camera or the smart potato with multiple cameras all around it, the smart lettuce with the removable s.n.a.i.l camera module, the smart whatever and all those cameras everywhere. And when you'll come back to your smart home at the end of the day with all your smart foods to put in your smart fridge (which will also be a car by the way) and start talking to your smart assistant about which smart meal to make you'll be.... just an other dumb person lost in a "smart" world.
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And after you're done eating, you'll have a . . . wait for it . . . a smart fart.

I've spent my whole career in tech, and the last thing I want is smart stuff.
 
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Altman told employees it's "the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen."
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A smart lamp? Why not a smart mirror? Faucet? Door handle?
I look forward to the next article with the latest rumor on the “coolest piece of tech…”, it’s pure entertainment.

Personally, I suggest this revision to the claim Altman made:
Erase the third to last word, then move the “n” in the last word to the front of the next to last word.
 
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To achieve the level of always-there personal assistant feedback that Altman and Ive have described, and assuming you move around to a normal degree instead of being locked to a single chair nearly all day, and since they say this device won't be a wearable, it seems you’d have to pick up and carry it with you as you’re moving around, set it down for a few minutes in the next place you’re at, pick it up again and carry it to the next place, etc. That’s a level of inconvenience I don’t think too many people will want to subject themselves to, and pockets might not help enough. It seems that a watch might do much of what Altman and Ive have described, though a camera on a watch would often not be looking where it needs to in order to do its job.

My Apple Watch, without a camera, already tells me when it’s time to go to bed since I set an alarm for that, because that’s one area where I don’t always have the discipline. If I had an early meeting in the morning, I think it and my iPhone together already have the software to allow me to tell it to tell me to get to bed early.

I guess we'll see what this device can really do, but from what they've said so far, there are already issues.
 
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I'm a Jony Ive stan, but did he not learn from HomePod's price position in the market? Amazon Echo and Google Nest devices are more affordable.
 
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