Your new friend: $299.
Good friend: $499. Best friend: $599
Good friend: $499. Best friend: $599
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OpenAI's First AI Device Will Be a Portable Smart Speaker
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kurtfoster
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That's awesome! I spent so much time on ChatGPT, and for what I use it for, it's fairly reliable. It would be nice to have a speaker that I could give it a wake up command and then have a conversation with it. Can't wait!
I'm not looking to have a convo with my speaker, but you go right ahead.
Happy_John
macrumors 68000
It’s not the sticker price that’s the kick in the teeth, it’s the subscription and token cost.
The device is dumb, all the AI will be serverside. It’s function is to burn as many tokens as possible, 24/7.
Happy_John
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DocMultimedia
macrumors 68030
The cute lamp prototype from the Apple employee was far more interesting than a speaker that mimics an animal.
Tagbert
macrumors 604
This is what they came up with? A ChatGPT Alexa? Good luck with that. I don't want that in my home. It's creepy. This fantasy of Jarvis from Iron Man died years ago.
DocMultimedia
macrumors 68030
ChatGPT says, I have no clue what you want, but I think the first Superbowl was in 1848. 🤣
Gurman says this product from OpenAI can move. You wonder if any trade secrets from that lamp ended up leaking out of Cupertino to build this.
Whether AI or human, the purpose of an assistant is to serve, not to be a friend. The two, at extremes, are incompatible (they can coexist if not extreme, but there is always some tension under the surface). Because by definition you require service from an assistant, and by definition you require no service from a friend.
An assistant should be succinct with information, and not waste time with quirky responses. The standard Siri voice has about as much personality as I'm willing to tolerate in an AI assistant, but the no-frills computer voice from Star Trek is ideal.
People buy Amazon, Google, etc. smart speakers because they're cheap... What value is this smart speaker going to bring, beyond access to an AI model (presumably requiring a paid subscription) that could work on anything with a speaker and a microphone?
“Know what? Browsers… yeah, that was a bad idea right from the start. You know what ISN’T a bad idea? Smart speakers! I heard Amazon made 10 billion on them!”
— Company that doesn’t realize Amazon LOST 10 billion on them.
— Company that doesn’t realize Amazon LOST 10 billion on them.
I admit this could just be me because I’ve never been a fan, but Gurman’s reporting never fails. “Apple feels threatened”, “Amid its trade secrets lawsuit, Apple has nothing on the market like it?” Great stuff.
Vincent Hanna
macrumors 6502
If OpenAI thinks they can enter the high-end consumer hardware market with a product that locks out iPhone users, I wish them luck.
I want C-3PO, and for him to do laundry.
rorschach
macrumors 68020
Right, ChatGPT doesn’t say it doesn’t understand…it just makes the answer up.
That's some serious lack of imagination. "Smart speakers" as you know them are pretty lame devices. But we are right the beginning of what will eventually be AI-driven bots that you speak to, who speak back, who do tasks for you, and eventually do physical jobs around the house. The AI we have now is pretty contained inside of an app. When it has its own hardware, you're going to see things you never thought of. Or things you've only seen in science fiction.
