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I've read "AI", "superior", "exciting" and "qualcomm" about a dozen times, yet there is absolutely _zero_ information on what this thing is or what its capabilities/limitations/intended purposes are.

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I watched (okay, skimmed) the demo (okay, ad) and from what I can tell, it's a phone with no screen that you clip to your shirt and interact with verbally. The demo includes receiving a phone call, language translation, summarizing a meeting, and looking up a product (by UPC?) to see if the speaker is allergic to it. I assume it's OpenAI on the backend due to the speaker mentioning how excited Sam Altman is about it.

I can see what they're going for, if I had an always-on device hoovering up my data I can imagine an AI using it to do cool stuff. But the only way I'm wearing a 24/7 body cam is if the data is going to open source software on hardware I control, and AFAIK this is neither, so no thanks.

Exactly. You follow the link you get what is basically an image as landing page. Then you have to click on it to get to a small article/text, which doesn't tell you much either about what the actual product is. Somewhere in the text is a TedTalk video which shows and explains a little more. But when I see a link that is "whoah look at our new product" I expect more than a tagline and a picture

you can click on it???

Well that was far from obvious.

Very in-humane

Seems to me like the Juicero of AI. A piece of performance art satire masquerading as a product announcement.

It's like altcoin landing page but for AI

Roadmap:

- whitepaper

- marketing

- full waitlist

- website redesign

- whitepaper v2

...

- token

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