OpenAI's First AI Device Will Be a Portable Smart Speaker

[xxFoxtail]

Uh, what now?

It might be kind of cute if it wasn’t extracting and selling everything about mine and my family's lives.

Put it in a Furby body and I might consider it.

 

[tonmischa]

Why not combine with this?
Flying HomePod Whale:

 

[GrumpyOldGuy52]

The device will have a personality, and will be able to "connect on a humanlike level with users." It has mechanical elements that can move on their own, to create a sense that the device is alive. There's also a camera so it can understand a user's surroundings. The AI product includes a rechargeable battery and it can be carried from room to room.

I think early adopters will be all over this, but the uncanny valley is a real thing—people get weirded-out when tech gets too human-like. If it's acting like your companion, as opposed to a proper computing voice interface (think Star Trek's computer), it's not going to survive.

 

[kuito]

That will be a…. No from me.

 

[zenmacx]

Ignoring those who hate the man or the company, which can be typical in an Apple forum, the concept of an "AI device" is fascinating.

There seems to be a few device options: glasses, standalone pin or pendant, ai voice recorders, watches, companion devices like phones.

How this all plays out will be intriguing as this is a very high stakes game. Apple with all their resources is well positioned, the question is how and when will they execute.

 

[Vincent Hanna]

Of the 97 things obviously wrong/creepy/invasive about this product, my first practical question is this:

How can it "respond to messages" if it has no access to my blue iMessages?

 

[teaneedz]

H3llo - move out of the way dumbo so that I can see your credit cards.

 

[applefan8254]

Pls add ability to pair physical remotes with physical buttons. Some of us like to fall asleep listening to music and it's nice to have an actual button remote we can use to adjust volume or skip tracks with our eyes closed and no need to wake ourselves up by screaming out commands

 

[fatTribble]

Waiting to see the device and especially how it is going to be priced.

Maybe a cheap device and a costly subscription? 🤔

 

[fatTribble]

Will it be able to notify my closest friends that their services are no longer required? 🤪

 

[Gorlammi]

Better Siri on HomePod is exactly what everyone in this thread saying "not interested" has been very interested in for years.

 

[jdawgnoonan]

So an unprofitable and extremely overhyped company is betting on a product class which had its anticlimactic peak 5 years ago. This might be a great product for those sad folks that feel like ai is an actual companion. Who am I to judge, life is short and not always sweet. The more surprising thing would be if this is actually what Apple is worried about, I doubt that it is.

 

[jarman92]

People familiar with the project told Bloomberg that the device is different from anything Apple has on the market today, and it is "unlikely" it violates Apple trade secrets. Though Apple has the HomePod and HomePod mini speakers, OpenAI does not see Apple's speakers as comparable to its hardware product.

LOL well yes, I'm sure OpenAI doesn't see them as comparable and its employees (the only people who could possibly be "familiar with the project") would say it's unlikely to violate Apple's trade secrets, though I fail to see how that matters at all. Nor do I see how the device being "different from anything Apple has on the market today" has any bearing on whether it incorporates Apple's trade secrets.

 

[Glenny2lappies]

What’s the difference between the Apple smart speaker and the ChatGPT one?

Apple uses Siri whose catchphrase is “I don’t understand that”. ChatGPT is light years ahead of Apple.

 

[jarman92]

So wait… THIS is the big world-changing paradigm-shifting micacle product that Jony Ive has been teasing? A speaker? Ah hahaha 😂 OMG. I’m sure Apple is shaking in their boots.

This is exactly why the weird Sam/Jony video and hype cycle was so stupid—every device category that can exist already exists, so no matter what OpenAI puts out the reaction will be "...that's it?!" An entirely predictable sequence of events, especially considering we just saw the exact same thing happen with the Humane Pin.

 

[jarman92]

What’s the difference between the Apple smart speaker and the ChatGPT one?

Apple uses Siri whose catchphrase is “I don’t understand that”. ChatGPT is light years ahead of Apple.

Well if OpenAI includes enough compute to run models locally this thing will be prohibitively expensive (if they can manufacture it at all). If it doesn't then this thing will be neither fast nor private.

 

[noraa]

Yay…

That’s it, that’s literally all I’ve got

 

[TonyC28]

Better Siri on HomePod is exactly what everyone in this thread saying "not interested" has been very interested in for years.

Put all this in a HomePod with Apple's focus on privacy, and we will all love it. Basically, I want Jarvis run on Apple devices in my home.

 

[jarman92]

I think they are indeed 😀
Apple has failed at AI to the point they are dependent upon other companies to deliver AI features debuted over 2 years ago and are now accusing OpenAI of stealing their trade secrets. Mmmmm 🤔😕😐
Maybe this is an attempt on Apple’s behalf to delay the release of a new product and obtain a glimpse of the product as well as the technologies behind it. It will be interesting to see how this plays out for both parties.

Well OpenAI lost nearly $40 billion last year while Apple made nearly $200 billion, so query which company has "failed." And now sure how you think Apple's lawsuit will allow it to "obtain a glimpse of the product as well as the technologies behind it," since (a) that's not at all how litigation works, and (b) it's quite clear from Apple's complaint that its OpenAI that's has been stealing info (even if not trade secrets) from Apple.

 

[TruthAboveAllElse]

I feel like a device with a camera to see me, but not screen to see into it, is extra creepy.

 

[ThomasJL]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple designer Jony Ive have teased the device several times, suggesting it will have "incredible contextual awareness" about a user's life, and describing it as a new type of computer built for AI. The two have suggested prototypes are "jaw-droppingly good" and "exciting."

Tim Cook is a massive success when it comes to maximizing profits for shareholders, but a miserable failure when it comes to innovation. Jony Ive was one of the most innovative industrial designers in the world, but only because Steve Jobs took an active role at keeping Ive’s worst tendencies in check. Jobs visited Ive’s design lab almost daily, whereas Cook rarely visited. Cook was too busy with bean-counting related tasks. Cook also spread Ive way too thin by having him work on things other than products (such as GUI design, which he had no experience in and was horrendous at, and interior design for the Apple spaceship campus). The result of Cook’s cluelessness and mediocrity was that Ive felt unfulfilled at Apple and quit, and now has stooped so low as to work with that grifter Scam Altman.

 

[zenmacx]

Of the 97 things obviously wrong/creepy/invasive about this product, my first practical question is this:

How can it "respond to messages" if it has no access to my blue iMessages?

Not everyone is a captive of the locked down Apple ecosystem.

 

[Happy_John]

So a HomePod mini with an internal battery or battery pack.

Gamechanging and revolutionary.

And completely original.

Imagine if their next intended product is an “AI enabled” watch that has fitness tracking.

 

[PsykX]

Portable ? Speaker ?
It's going to be a talisman.

 

[mcru21]

This is gonna flop so bad