Unless this speaker runs a local model somehow, what makes it different from a speaker with the ChatGPT API integrated? Is that all this is?
Edit:
The device — described by suppliers as something that resembles a screenless smart speaker (in other words, an Alexa-adjacent device)
That sure sounds like that’s all this is. With how many OEM parts related to smart speakers there are available these days, doesn’t 20+ engineers seem like a lot for something like that?
The Home Assistant community literally came up with one…
Every company who has tried to make AI hardware has failed miserably.
HAL Laboratories made the flawed, but impressive HAL 9000 AI computer in 1992.
Wonder how much Ive is involved with that
Ive isn’t an employee of OpenAI, is he?
That being said, I could see him help poach people even though it’s been six years since he worked at Apple.
Not sure if he’s officially an employee but his company was acquired by openai a while back
https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/
https://www.theverge.com/news/703114/openai-io-jony-ive-sam-altman-ai-hardware
Ah, that makes sense.
