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Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by mlindner »

dr_dshiv wrote: post #674

Just need a way to talk to ChatGPT anytime. Microphone, speaker and permanent connection to ChatGPT. That’s all you need: io One need is being able to talk to ChatGPT in a whisper or silent voice… so you can do it in public. I don’t think that comes from them, but it will be big when it does. Much easier than brain implants! In an ear device, you need enough data of listening to the muscles and the sounds together, t…

Yeah this is exactly why I use Grok so much and barely use ChatGPT at all. I always have a device with X on it and it's easy to pop open Grok from anywhere on the site no matter what you're doing as the button is already there.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by maronato »

elicash wrote: post #389
tough wrote: post #320

tbh has jony ive produced any remarkable hardware piece since he left apple? Can't think of any maybe im wrong he must be buying the name or something or just the brains idk

Not sure if it counts for what you meant by hardware, since it's more art piece than a practical thing given the $60k price, but he created a record player: https://www.linn.co.uk/us/turntables/lp12-50

$60k for a record player that looks like a record player.

idk, I expected a bit more risk-taking and creativity given the price and exclusivity.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by dsiroker »

cj wrote: post #745
dr_dshiv wrote: post #674

Just need a way to talk to ChatGPT anytime. Microphone, speaker and permanent connection to ChatGPT. That’s all you need: io One need is being able to talk to ChatGPT in a whisper or silent voice… so you can do it in public. I don’t think that comes from them, but it will be big when it does. Much easier than brain implants! In an ear device, you need enough data of listening to the muscles and the sounds together, t…

I’ve been using #5 for a few weeks now (Limitless.ai pendant, clips to clothes, records and transcribes everything all day) It sounds cool, and the idea of asking questions about your day seems like it would be cool, but a few weeks later I’m finding myself forgetting to take it with me. The value just isn’t there yet. (And why have a clip on microphone when everyone already has a microphone in our pocket?) It’s a co…

(Co-founder & CEO of Limitless) Thanks for trying it and I hope to win you back with the new features we have in the works!

As for selling data if consumers don’t want to pay for it: I commit publicly to never doing this. I will shutdown the company and return remaining capital to investors if consumers don’t want to pay for what we are building. So far, so good, and we were actually cash flow positive a few of the last few weeks.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by sponnath »

lordofmoria wrote: post #375

I don't understand all the pessimism and incredulity about the valuation. This is an acquisition to take on and disrupt Apple. Ives + Altman is perceived as a viable successor to the Ives + Jobs partnership that made Apple successful. Apple is weak and doesn't seem capable of innovating anymore, nor do they seem to understand how to build AI into products. There's an opportunity to build an Apple-sized hardware weara…

I don't think ChatGPT really disrupted Google search? It definitely forced Google to release Gemini + related products though. Google still has millions of users and they now have AI integrated with search. The latest Gemini models are also as capable if not more than some of OAI's models.

I don't see how Altman is going to disrupt Apple with just Ive and a company no one's heard of before.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by crossroadsguy »

> “I have a growing sense that everything I’ve learned over the last 30 years has led me to this place and to this moment,” Ive said in a joint interview with OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman

Ah. What synergy, what serendipity. Right there.

Nice photo by the way — https://d7bnjsbkcwmq2m.archive.is/HgpSJ/945183ffb15e984274fa...

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by maronato »

the_arun wrote: post #441

Sam Altman already has a hardware company "World" - https://world.org/cofounder-letter which works on Orb (a hardware). Not sure if there is any connection between these.

> Introducing Worldcoin

> After visiting an Orb, a biometric verification device, you will receive a World ID.

> For each unique human who verifies their World ID with your Orb, you will earn WLD tokens.

> World Operators are independent local business owners or entrepreneurs who help make World available in their local communities.

> Make a USD $100 deposit to secure your priority for an Orb.

Really going for a full score on the scam checklist.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by leptons »

0xB31B1B wrote: post #741
woah wrote: post #404

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does that work?

The company oAI is acquiring is owned by Sam Altman and Johnny Iive

That has to be some kind of corporate money laundering, or highly illegal. The board should fire Altman if this is true and get out of this purchase.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by quitit »

Bjorkbat wrote: post #669

A while back someone here on Hacker News made a pretty insightful comment that as great of a designer as Jony Ive is, a large part of his success is owed to the fact that he had an "editor" in the form of Steve Jobs. Once Jobs passed, he no longer really had an editor. It remains to be seen whether Sam Altman / OpenAI in general will be a good editor

This is a bit of a risk for Ive, as until now he is credited with Apple's lauded design. If he does not produce an immediate success it'll be brand damaging and wobble on his reputation.

I also suspect it might go that way: post-Ive designs have been credited as being better, particularly around apple's laptops that were perceived as too heavily favouring form over function.

More realistically Apple's design is good because they take the iterative approach seriously.

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