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OpenAI Fast-Tracking AI Phone for 2027 Launch, Says Kuo

Apple needs some competition given their lack of innovation over the years and if Ive has defected to open AI, you know stuff is brewing because he is brilliant at those things and they will listen to him.
 
jlc1978 said:
Let me pay for the privilege of letting you train your models with my data. The ever increasing need for new data for models may well drive more of this. It would not surprise me if at some point Apple provided anonymous data to Gemini.
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At this point (I don't see companies backing off 'AI' outside of dropping the ridiculous marketing push since its back fired, machine learning is and has been here to stay) as long as things are truly anonymized, and there are real privacy protections in place then I'm fine with 'AI' for the most part and companies training it with said data. The chatbot stuff is neat, there's a lot of neat applications of this newer stuff and educational potential as well.

I incredibly doubt whatever OpenAI offers will be something trustworthy in terms of privacy in the way I could trust something from Apple. Innovative? Maybe. I'm definitely curious & interested to see where this technology and its applications into consumer goods goes. More specified chips for 'AI' tasks and figuring out how to shrink its need for so much memory could make for some wild devices and experiences eventually. That said, don't get me wrong, I'm with most people on this stuff... sick of the slop, hype, etc. Also a little spooked by how much easier this stuff is making it for bad actors to trick and harm people. So privacy and some more focus on guardrails would be nice.
 
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FyrStrike said:
Let me guess. Another Android variant? ... No thanks.

Grow some balls and enter with a new OS. Then maybe I might consider it. Even Microsoft chickened out of that one.
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they chickened out once they discovered they were stuck in the chicken-and-egg dilemma of not having enough users or developers and you need one to get the other. They spent untold sums of money getting developers to port their apps to Windows Phone but even that wasn't enough to make a dent in the market.

While I'd love to see another OS on the market, it's hard to envision a new platform being able to make much headway in this duopoly because of all the existing network effects Android and iOS enjoy.
 
FyrStrike said:
Let me guess. Another Android variant? ... No thanks.

Grow some balls and enter with a new OS. Then maybe I might consider it. Even Microsoft chickened out of that one.
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Now there's a thought. An open source operating system that can run on a wide variety of hardware. The Linux of the mobile device world, if you will. Why hasn't that happened? Maybe it has and I just don't know about it.
 
iMac The Knife said:
Hard pass. The day I let AI run my phone, unless I absolutely have no choice, is the day there's a tag on my toe.
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I can envision a future where I let AI handle certain tasks for me, but I definitely do not want an AI-first phone where everything needs to go via the LLM. Having apps is actually awesome even though the current app economy of IAPs everywhere sucks.
 
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It's rare that I see a product announced that is so vile, I wouldn't use it even if I were paid $50,000 to do so.
 
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