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.

  • aramis87@fedia.io
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    23 hours ago

    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.