That sounds like a terrible idea.
It's hard to say, but I like to think that something like the iPhone always sounded like a good idea. Basically, the entire web in your pocket. Check football scores while you're on the john, text someone instead of calling, GPS, etc. There were some unknowns, like can we get touch screen to work well enough, will people pay $600 for a phone when typical phones cost $100-200 at the time. But the product itself was obviously good.
But this is some puck that records everything and periodically chimes in? Sounds awful. What problem is this trying to solve? iPhone solved the problem of camera, entertainment and phone in one device. Is anyone walking around thinking gee I wish I had some AI talk to me right now but I don't want to press a button?
If they can make it remotely useful enough to allow you to record all of your conversations, that is extremely valuable to advertisers.
Yeah I can imagine that a device which records everyone around you, all the time, struggles with that.
duxup•1h ago
This device that just sits and listens all the time and interrupts ... that's nothing like I use LLMs now. That's a completely different mode of operation / my tolerance for mistakes would be near 0 with that.
It's not clear to me if an LLM can even DO these things conversationally well enough to work / not be a nuisance.
Siri might be the best example, you use it a few times, it's useless a few times and then I just use it to set timers and forget about it otherwise.
apparent•36m ago
1: AirPods-linked devices go first when AirPods are present
2: closest device goes first in general
3: if there are multiple devices that could respond, and only some of them can do the requested task, one of the devices that can do the task should respond
danielfoster•18m ago