Bloomberg reported Tuesday that the device — which is still currently under development — is designed to be screen-free and is being pitched internally as a “humanlike AI companion that lives in the home.”

OpenAI has long claimed that it wants to launch a hardware product — with some rumors being that it wants to launch its own phone, a move that would put it in competition with Apple.

OpenAI’s newly surfaced device sounds like something of a departure from traditional smart speakers — as sources described the device to Bloomberg as having a “personality” and being able to proactively learn about its owner over time, providing more personalized service. The machine would have access to a user’s digital life, drawing off things like emails, sources said.

The device is also weirdly described as involving “mechanical elements that can move on their own” and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to “feel like a companion and become a physical manifestation of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Restaurant work is grueling. Been there, glad my kid chose another (also but not as) grueling track.

What powers this technology? Surely the planning, engineering and building of these things with no use doesn’t use technology?

Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Cocaine is always in the kitchen (staff).

Find god.

🤔

And genocide and surveillance states.

Good. Let’s keep it that way.

ETA: I have a deep loathing of everything Zuck, mainly because he’s amoral. I already have distracted distanced myself from people who use his platforms because all they seem to want is attention at all costs, usually through pushing what they think is true, without evidence, and posting other people’s personal information and images without even asking, let alone consent.

That’s what capitalists and their bootlickers do. They only give credit in blame shifting.

Yes, and infanticide is illegal.

The complaint quotes a Microsoft representative describing the GDID as “a persistent, device-level identifier designed to uniquely identify an installation of a Windows operating system on a device, either a physical device (e.g., a mobile phone or laptop) or virtual machine, across certain Microsoft services and scenarios”

A Global Device ID (GDID) is a permanent, unique digital fingerprint that Microsoft automatically assigns to your computer when you install Windows or sign into a Microsoft account.

The comments on combinator:

I have a real problem with the pretense posed by the article that the club has no blame. They should have understood the risk they were taking on by subcontracting a vendor to collect passports, and better vetted that vendor. Obviously the service provider was completely inept, but that doesn’t absolve the fools using them. I preach to my clients this sort of PII should be treated as a toxic, hazardous substance. Ideally don’t touch it with a 10 foot pole, and if you can’t help it then limit the scope, protect it with strong access policies that severely limit who can touch it (including encryption keys conservatively custodied), and securely delete it all as soon as possible.

Too many companies these days point you to shoddy third parties for some kind of functionality (e.g. book an appointment, perform KYC on you, host the online learning platform for your course, etc.), inappropriately foisting both a new business relationship on you that you never asked for along with their partner’s terms of service that you have no bargaining power in negotiating.

This is a side-effect of the SaaS era, and the model is broken.

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If these kinds of breaches were actually costly, then people would indeed treat PII as toxic. But they aren’t. The media brouhaha blows over within a week or so, and things are fine again. Leaking PII should be very, very expensive, and then this idiocy would stop.

Costco, I try to avoid Amazon, and haven’t bought anything there but twice in several years. Clothing, uh, lol. I bought a couple of sets of work clothes at a store going out of business, and the two nearish villages to mine have indie thrift stores. If I need something else, I’ll pick it up locally at a dollar store or small, indie grocery, but if I’m by a chain grocery and I get a good price, I’ll go there.

For whom?

https://buddhismforeveryone.com/the-second-noble-truth-ignorance/

I can’t remember.

It’s not either/or.

I’d like to find a translation of that Arabian manuscript, forget the name atm.

This is what all capitalism is. The capitalists copy, take credit, gradually degrade the project while paying capitalist cronies more and more inflated prices for supplies, contracted labor, line go up for a few quarters, capitalist decides to cash out, too bad for the public, astute business management.

Aka flood the market with extraneous bs rather than plan the economy around legitimate public need and benefit, while any surplus can be traded and donated to global communities for global need.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-humiliated-meta-gemini

You are so much more than welcome, and know it, sibling. ✊