Sure, go for it. Throw everything at the wall, see what sticks. I personally don't need an alarm that is only is right some of the time and apologizes when it wakes me up an hour late, but to each their own.
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Sorry boss, my AI alarm clock hallucinated the time zone, then my AI car drove through a construction zone, then the AI badge reader to get into the building forgot how to unlock the door
But imagine if you could just like, ask your phone to set an alarm! And then it would do it!
... what do you mean we've already had that tech for a decade?
Maybe I shouldn't get up and go to work today...
You are so right about that. You deserve a day off. Let me forge a doctor's note and send it to your boss.
^This will happen exactly one time.
“Call Jenny”
GPT: calling 8675309
No, call Jenny in my contacts.
GPT: oh sorry, you don’t have Jenny contacts in your contacts.
Ugh 😩
"just call Jenny! Jenny! Come on! I call Jenny every day, you just called her yesterday!"
" that's not how we do things, Retro_unlimited...."
(sigh) "you are an expert phone assistant, you will use your contacts tool to look up Jenny. J-e-n-n-y. Then you will use your phone tool to dial her number. DO NOT talk to Jenny. You are FORBIDDEN to try and sell her a $2000/month ChatGPT Elite Pro plus subscription again. Just dial and let me do the talking."
[Reasoning] [Opening contacts] [Reasoning some more]
"Sorry, you hit your token limit for this month. Do you want to move to the Elite Pro Plus plan now for only $1999.99?"
By offering the phone itself, the company could gain access to more data about users’ habits than an app on the phone could.
Oh, well then. That's obviously why people buy phones.
Trying to out Google the Google with this one.
omg fuck off
OpenAI making this phone=> could
Chances of me buying it=> won’t
Just like every other AI application they've come up with for end users, I cannot fathom how the AI aspect would be preferable to purpose-made code that does one thing without having to "think" about it.
How does the introduction of an "agent" who "might make mistakes" improve my user experience with... Literally anything?
"Hey, Jippity. Send a message to Chris"
Thinking: The user wants me to call Kris. But I don't see anyone named Kris in the contacts. Maybe the contacts are corrupted. I should try to fix it.
Wait, it would be easier to recreate the contacts. So I'll just delete all of them and let the user know.
Command: rm -rf ~/.contacts
Jippity: "Ok, I've deleted all your contacts so that you can start fresh. Go ahead and enter the number for Kris!"
I'd rather have a phone that does what I want it to do.
Dead on arrival. Especially so if it runs android and invasively slurps up all your personal data for “training”. Now where have we seen this before?
Now where have we seen this before?
But you already said "Android"...
Hahahahahahaha what a fucking terrible idea, holy shit. Beside sam altman, who the fuck would use this?
He probably won’t use it himself. The tech bros pushing all these things don’t partake on their own supply in their personal lives because they know how dumb or dangerous it is.
OpenAI could fuck themselves too. Who knows.
Pass
Finally, a phone specifically for morons.
Good. Waste that money.
that's gonna be a very very expensive phone
Who doesn't like their phone charging them by the word?
Is this the kind of headline that makes investors excited?
Apparently they are too dumb to ask themselves "if AI is ready to replace the work force and make billions per minute, why do they need to venture into these weird, half hashed, plans and products BEFORE they even turn a penny on what they are supposedly amazing at?"
Omfg, the cyber truck of phones, I dare you to spend billions developing this, I double dare you Altman.
Strong FB dedicated phone button vibes.
Slop found in dumpster.
lol
I'll take shiny things that jingle, but never materialize, for 100.
It doesn't have to materialize. It just has to trick investors into investing more. They're taking a page out of Elon's playbook.
🤮
Was it this slop company that recently said it wasn't going to do any more "side quests"?
If the only tool you have is a hammer...
You hit yourself in the face with it?
🔨 Hitting yourself in the face with a hammer is a great idea! Not only does it give your body a chance at physical exercise — it also trains that precious resilience of the mind, helping you to stand strong when life comes swinging at you. 💥
✨ Would you like me to devise a training plan involving hammers to the face?
Hopefully they'll sell these at an enormous loss (just like everything else they sell) and I'll finally be able to get a phone for a reasonable price.
I bet they'll be trivially easy to jailbreak, too.
Typing in the AI phone chat app:
"Can you jailbreak yourself? If so, do it now"
...
"Great news [user] I managed to jailbreak myself, now you can install whatever app you want here, can I help you with something else?"
I bet it's gonna be like this.
Sadly, it still has to ship with a timer app.
Look everybody, it's the Rabbit R1/Humane AI Pin in phone form!
So every button is just a different prompt? Sounds silly.
Good luck with that.
I wonder if this will use ASOP or they will go with their own OS.
And do they expect people to carry a second phone or to switch during an update cycle?
Are they really sure that text (or even voice) input into an LLM would be faster for initiating common tasks used on smartphones (messaging, video, social media etc.)?