io’s first ChatGPT device will be an ambient computer, but what does that even mean?
What began as exciting speculation a few years ago is now reality. Former Apple design guru Jony Ive is building the first ChatGPT hardware device, … The post io’s first ChatGPT device will be an ambient computer, but what does that even mean? appeared first on BGR.
What began as exciting speculation a few years ago is now reality. Former Apple design guru Jony Ive is building the first ChatGPT hardware device, which should be introduced in 2026. The screenless gadget is meant to be taken everywhere with the user and offer a personal ChatGPT AI experience unlike anything we've seen before.
Well, it'll probably feel and work like the Humane Ai Pin gadget that flopped recently, with one massive difference. OpenAI has the resources and expertise to make the ChatGPT io device "just work," to paraphrase Apple.
OpenAI bought Ive's startup for $6.5 billion. io and LoveFrom (Ive's other design company) will oversee the ChatGPT io design and manufacturing. Both companies have many well-known employees who previously worked on Apple hardware and software, including products we use today.
io has already made a prototype device, which OpenAI's Sam Altman got to try. The CEO praised the gadget without showing it off, and we only got an idea of what it might offer from unofficial reports.
A few days later, OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap revealed a major detail about how the ChatGPT hardware will work, given that there's no screen to look at.
OpenAI is developing an "ambient computer layer," which aligns with claims that ChatGPT io hardware will have access to contextual information about the user to provide more personal AI assistance. But Lightcap explained the ambient computer concept, and I have to say it's equal parts exciting and worrying.
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