blastdoor

Marvin said:

Supersillyus said:

The device won't include a display

Ok it's dead then. 

People like to look at stuff. 

If you want to speak to a device you can do that to your phone or watch already. 

And you can look at images on them.

The End.

They are saying it's designed to work with other devices so it could display things on those screens. Although Jony Ive said products like Humane were poorly made, the description of their product sounds similar. One of the biggest downsides of the Humane product was waiting for cloud processing:



If it offloads processing to a local iPhone or other device or has a built-in neural chip, it would be much faster and more private but would need pretty advanced models to run on low-end hardware.

It would be useful for students and in business. A student studying could be stuck on something and would normally ask a teacher for help. The AI device would see the screen and the student can point to the issue and ask it. If it needs to display something, it can show on a phone or computer screen. If it has agent capability, it can control the screen and type things.

The same applies in business. Someone might be processing company earnings reports and need to make a presentation comparing the data. You could open the earnings reports for each year, have the camera look at it and tell it to load this data into Excel and create a graph showing the net income growth.

Someone working in Photoshop could describe actions, remove this object, lighten the photo, crop it to landscape, add a text caption with a suitable font and it can do it.

The main thing Sam Altman alluded to improving on was having to take out a computer, load up a browser, open a chat window, type in a problem and wait for a reply. They want interaction with AI to be more efficient than this and this will broaden its appeal.

They have to focus on improving things that matter to people and are common sources of inefficiency.

fred1 said:

The reasons given that prevent iPhones from being made in the US - “there is not the required skilled labor, there is not a supply of the rare minerals needed, and there are no facilities.” - can be dealt with, but would take years to implement. It’s not impossible, but the overnight change the Orange Man wants can’t happen.  Does he really not understand this? 

bloggerblog said:

Remember OQO inc, ModBook, or General Magic? 
There's a pattern where Apple ex-employees failing on their own, not saying the pattern won't be broken. But that it exists

hammeroftruth said:

blastdoor said:

The main devices from Star Trek were communicators, tablets, phasers, and tricorders. I’m guessing it’s not a phaser, so it must be a tricorder. 

But I want a phaser. 

I know that Altman must be designing the software interface because Ive is shit when it came to designing software at Apple. Remember how bad iOS 7 was? That was him. 

Apple can’t make AI products as fast as everyone else because it runs into their pillar of privacy and that’s why Macs and iOS devices that support Apple intelligence need more memory and a fast enough processor. Fixing Siri alone will probably be costly for Apple since it’s also embedded into HomeKit and CarPlay.