No, they won't. We already have devices that we carry with us that can do anything that their gadget will ever be able to do. This is design in search of a problem that (a) most people don't want to solve, and (b) doesn't do anything better than a cheaper alternative.
I think this will be a huge success for OpenAI!
They'll raise loads of money.
Then the gizmo will flop but they'll have the money.
one key distinction is that pre-iphone people desperately wanted the thing. nobody I know wants this
"Force AI into your life..."
A lot of the messaging and marketing around AI is so negative and dread-inducing. "Adopt this or you'll fall behind!"
If AI is so great, shouldn't it be sold on its benefits, like any other product?
I mean the best that this thing can be is some sort of pin or remote the size of an iPod shuffle that you speak to and speak back to you and has a camera right I mean, how attractive can you really make that? That doesn’t sound like the most amazing product the world has ever seen to me.
You know does sound cool? Xreal glasses with whatever the maximum FOV can be shoved into the design of conventional glasses with some cameras and speakers. And that let me continue to connect to whatever device I want.
My old Oculus Quest is filled with software that doesn’t work anymore.
AI that doesn’t interact with the world or websites or apps is boring.
What are the odds this “io” thingy will be a new ChatGPT and not a new Loopt or Worldcoin?
This is going to disspear like Google Glass but be more expensive and less popular.
Video aside, has there been any serious attempt to do everything with audio only?
Maybe your life, not mine, I promise you that.
> They promise that their gadget will free us from technology
One cannot be free of technology by introducing more technology. To be honest, I think most of this recent junk we've been seeing hasn't really made life a lot better. It's almost as if we started a culture of innovation which was based on making life more comfortable, and now that we have, we have to keep the machine going but into the realms more and more pointless than ever before.
In fact, if I look back at the last 20 years, yes technology has gotten a little better, but very little of it (especially in the computer sphere) has really added new enjoyment to life. I mean, if computer innovation had stagnated 20 years ago, we wouldn't have as nice monitors, screens, or processors maybe, but would any of us be any worse off except for a few fringe cases?
And what did we get in return? A push for even more efficiency, which isn't even a good thing. AI datacenters that need gigajoules of energy to run when we desperately need to save energy.
People like Sam Altman and Jony Ive really are shining examples of the pathological sickness we have to ignore the good things in life for the trivial.
Jony Ive is a great designer, but not a great product designer. He needs a strong product visionary like Jobs behind him, something the Sam Altman is not. I call it a flop.
Sam Altman wants to make Her real, I assume has only seen the trailer.
Jony Ive is talented, but we saw what happens when he doesn’t have a Steve Jobs to keep him in check: he dives headfirst into self-parody. And Sam Altman is no Steve Jobs, no matter what he fancies himself. I don’t predict anything worthwhile coming out of this partnership.
Is this like when everyone was going to get an Apple Vision Pro?
I've still got to catch up with all this AI thing. I really don't have the time.
But some teams I work with have lost interest in fixing our current issues and seem hellbent on implementing AI everywhere.
I'm waiting for the moment everybody sobers up and realizes there are other things that need work.
I'm sure the governments (and corporations) of the world are extremely excited for the day when most human's filter their thinking through AI.
I'm skeptical of any hardware play here - As Marques Brownlee has said a lot when trying new ai hardware, "Smartphones are kinda OP."
Phones have gotten really good through incremental improvement and keeping some backwards compatibility so they were always useful at every point in their evolution. It's hard to imagine another device for ai that isn't just better served as an app.