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Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by elAhmo »

firtoz wrote: post #664
elAhmo wrote: post #609

Buying a company without a product (or anything announced), without a website, with its founder not even joining after an acquisition. So, not really an aquihire either. I am sure this aligns with the non-profit part of OpenAI whose board allegedly has influence of where the company is heading. This industry is amazing.

> with its founder not even joining after an acquisition. So, not really an aquihire either. What do you mean? > Sir Jony Ive will “assume deep design and creative responsibilities” to build new products for OpenAI

> Ive won’t be joining OpenAI, and his design firm, LoveFrom, will continue to be independent, but they will “take over design for all of OpenAI, including its software,” in a deal valued at nearly $6.5 billion

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by thinkingemote »

doctorpangloss wrote: post #661
kookamamie wrote: post #475

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, basically a Palantir?

I don't totally get the comparison - Palantir is a tech enabled agency making glorified dashboards that benefits from affirmative action for libertarians, and the mini Vegas orb product is Jony Ive's new dildo to capitalism to worship. Two very different things.

the object from Lord of the Rings

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by troupo »

quitit wrote: post #830
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…

> 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.

What has LoveFrom produced in 6 years since Ive quit Apple?

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Post by troupo »

mrcwinn wrote: post #816
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

Except that freezes Jony in time, as if he didn’t work alongside that editor for decades. I think Jony, like any of us, evolves and picks up new tricks. I’m excited to see what he creates.

> I think Jony, like any of us, evolves and picks up new tricks. I’m excited to see what he creates.

He's had 6 years to create something—anything!—so far

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by troupo »

coffeemug wrote: post #708
samtp wrote: post #701

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What exact use cases do I get from being able to talk to chatGPT when I am out in public? I can think of close to 0 value add to have an AI voice in my head when I'm taking a walk in the park or out to dinner.

People stare at their phones while walking, having dinner, and driving. It's not a big leap to imagine replacing that with subvocal conversations with AI.

> It's not a big leap to imagine replacing that with subvocal conversations with AI.

There's no such thing as "subvocalised conversation". It's a pervasive sci-fi term that has no bearing on real life.

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Post by theshackleford »

samtp wrote: post #725
coffeemug wrote: post #708

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People stare at their phones while walking, having dinner, and driving. It's not a big leap to imagine replacing that with subvocal conversations with AI.

Having ongoing conversations with a sentence completion algorithm while out in public sounds extremely depressing tbh.

I’m sure people would think many of the things you engage in are extremely depressing.

I know people for instance who could not think of anything more depressing than working with computers for a living. But hey, they do them and I do me. That’s the glory of things.

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Post by eviks »

dudus wrote: post #268

First Windsurf and now this. OpenAI is spending billions like there's nothing else to use this money for while being seemingly cash strapped for model training since they already signaled more investment rounds would be needed to remain competitive. They're trying to become too big to fail before they have a moat which won't work well.

In what way can the be too big to fail? Who will be forced to bail them out and why?

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Post by mattigames »

eloisant wrote: post #870
adverbly wrote: post #809

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> 5. … like a clip. Something that attaches to clothes. I feel like the most natural thing would be basically push-to-talk-to-AI: 1. Some sort of mic + earpiece that you can wear comfortably(e.g. airpods) 2. A wireless button that you can put on a ring to activate the mic in the most ergonomic way possible 3. Any time you press the button, everything you say gets sent to a running AI chat

That's genius! Like a pin. With AI. And it would talk to you like a human, so we could call it the Humane AI Pin. How did nobody thought about that?

It wasn't connected to your personal phone in any way, it was doomed from the start.
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