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Isn't this the clock that Ars Technica occasionally found to say the wrong time? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/01/rhymi...
A clock that makes it harder to immediately know the time while looking like a botched prototype while spewing trite GPT rhymes on a tiny screen? Surely this one was submitted and upvoted in jest.
I mean, there's a very long history of timepieces that are more style than functional... think of the watches with just 3/6/9/12 indicated on the faces.
24 hours * 60 minutes * 5000 messages * 100 char/msg = 720mb. 14 years of unique messages would fit on 1gb sd, probably cheaper than a wifi unit and the interface required to configure it. it'll last longer too than the chatgpt api.
You missed the important part: they charge for a yearly subscription to their service.
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by setting up a Raspberry PI in the closet as the API server and an older Kindle as display.
maybe if the clock updated every 5-10 minutes instead, and leaned into the innaccuracy by making the time descriptions like "a little before 4" or "about half past five"?
reducing the refresh rate might also make it possible to make it wireless (i make wifi epaper gadgets that can last years on a single lipo by adjusting sleep times)
This will become a collector's item, as they will be very rare, the others having ended up in landfill, and this era of AI will be looked at as comical. Souvenirs of this era will be very valuable!