OpenAI is reportedly poaching Apple talent to build its first consumer hardware device — could potentially be a smart speaker

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/openai-reportedly-poaching-apple-talent-to-build-first-consumer-device

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AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 349d (1 reply)

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?

wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 349d

The Home Assistant community literally came up with one....

artyom@piefed.social · 6 pts · 349d (1 reply)

Every company who has tried to make AI hardware has failed miserably.

Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 349d

HAL Laboratories made the flawed, but impressive HAL 9000 AI computer in 1992.

fox2263@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d (3 replies)

Wonder how much Ive is involved with that

Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d (2 replies)

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.

nutt_goblin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 346d (1 reply)

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

Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 345d

Ah, that makes sense.