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  • This seems like a more expensive version of the rabbit or friend ai pins. What is going to differentiate this above any of (1) my phone that can use any AI provider and I can already carry around the home, (2) a set of smart speakers that can talk to an AI provider like google home/homepod/alexa, or (3) my computer?
    by ctkhn
  • Privacy nightmare + worse UX than a phone or sitting at your desk? Dead on arrival. Not a fan of Alexa but at least it can change what you're currently viewing on your Fire stick.
    by tiznow
  • https://archive.ph/l3i2J
    by PortableCode
  • Isn't this a plateaued market?

    Amazon, Google, and Apple are already entrenched in the space. It's not like any of them have toxic brands like Oracle where everyone is dying to free themselves. Most people are happy with their products.

    This seems like a tough move...

    by onlyrealcuzzo
  • It's going to be a phone, a screenless phone. Which is fine I guess, but only the obnoxious people that watch youtube on speaker with everyone giving them a death stare are going to use this. Maybe that's a bit too harsh, it will definately have a bluetooth connection for earbuds, so it might not be so grating. If they roll the data into the ChatGPT subscription, it will probably pick up a decent # of users. I can't imagine having a main device only use a voice interface though. Skimming an email visually is way more efficient than having an LLM summarize it.
    by oidar
  • A device thats worse than the phone you already have, which is dead the second you stop paying your monthly OpenAI sub, and is useless if you decide you prefer other LLM provider. Where do we sign up?

    Voice is almost always the worst, most frustrating interface.

    by steveBK123
  • I wonder what exact features this would provide that the mobile app cannot. I don’t wanna carry another device with me all the time
    by sajithdilshan
  • Does anyone actually use ChatGPT’s voice mode? It seems technically impressive, but when I try using it, it feels… deeply uncomfortable talking to a machine like you would a person.

    Treating it like you would a person feels silly: It’s not a person, it doesn’t have any life experience or anything interesting to say, it doesn’t have real opinions or anything worth talking about that isn’t a direct answer to your question. So having a “conversation” with it feels like I’m doing role-playing with a computer. And it gets into “weird” territory, fast.

    But if you treat it like you would an LLM chatbot, to get specific answers to questions, or to explain something to you, it’s so. much. worse than having the answer on a screen for me to skim and reference directly. Either the answer is too brief to be helpful, or too long and it’s talking forever and I have to make it stop. I suppose certain highly specific questions that have brief and concise answers, it may be good at?

    Maybe I just haven’t found the right use case for it yet. Or maybe my discomfort is just my introversion coming through, and normal people don’t have this problem.

    by ninkendo

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