A team of over 200 employees at OpenAI has been working on a smart speaker that features a built-in camera to analyze its surroundings.
Well, let them. And then make them illegal as soon as they are ready for the market.
As The Information reports, a team of over 200 employees has been working on a smart speaker that features a built-in camera, which will recognize faces and identify objects thanks to a dose of AI.
Who the fuck would pay for AI to run facial recognition in your own home?
Like, I thought ring cameras were for ignorant people, but this is ridiculous
Most people love this stuff.
Thanks, that sounds awful.
You don’t want a spying device masquerading as a speaker connected to the least secure software inside your home? 🥺
When you phrase it like that, it sounds so tempting. But no, I think I will pass.
The clickbait title & cover image of this article does a pretty good job of making me cringe.
I expected nothing and am still disappointed somehow. I don’t think they’ll ever release the thing, it served it’s purpose of making headlines already.
The company is also reportedly working on a “smart lamp” — but whether OpenAI is actually looking to bring it to market, let alone if such a product could conjure any enthusiasm among consumers, remains unclear.
A smart lamp? They are really out of ideas on how to build a separate “AI enabled” hardware device.
I have a feeling Altman wants to launch a modern equivalent of the iPhone (even though powerful smartphones existed way before the iPhone, I was using J2ME Gmail, Google Maps in 2004. Some websites even had a mobile version).
A smart lamp?
Eh, I have some smartbulbs around the house. I have one upstairs and one downstairs that automatically turn on around sunset and turn off around dawn: I want my elderly pets to be able to navigate safely to get to wherever they want to be. I have a couple other smartbulbs installed in the two places that are often accidentally left on and that we had to make special trips to turn off when we were going to bed. And I’ve set timers on some of them to go on and off randomly when we’ve gone on vacation. So I can understand the basic use cases.
But the thing is, we’ve done all that without needing a special “lamp” to handle that for us. I’m not sure what market the lamp will be targeting.
Altman is too dumb to make an iPhone-level product.
The idea of the iPhone was staring us all in the face: The cellular phone continued to evolve until Jobs and Apple moved the goalposts on what made a phone a phone. An AI-first product doesn’t yet exist and adding AI to a tried and true product (like a lamp) will never make a lamp into a better lamp. It’s just a more complicated lamp. These people are going to have a much harder time than Jobs to make a new product because it has to be truly original. Jobs never made an original product. He just evolved the last version better than anybody else could.
Open AIs IPO will be the bursting of the AI bubble.
A egg. John Siracusa called it.
