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> I’m very unclear on why these (rabbit and humane) aren’t just apps the real end game for AI devices is an always on microphone which is impossible on iOS.

• dagmx 3y ago
  Both products actively position themselves as push to talk to avoid wake words and maintain privacy.
  • add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
    The real tragedy of this era of technology is that even if an important new invention did work as well as imagined in sci fi, it would be so compromised by surveillance capitalism and patterns of enshittification that no one paying attention would want to come to rely on it.
    • roughly 3y ago
      As Ted Chiang put it, most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism.
      • add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
        That's a good point. I don't worry about AI turning into any kind of movie supervillain.
• wokwokwok 3y ago
  If I wanted a second phone with an always on microphone why would I buy a weird looking orange potato instead of just buying a phone that supported it?
• sdwr 3y ago
  Don't know why you got downvoted, 100% correct. "Activate to launch a command" is not very compelling, the real magic comes from some combination of: - is aware of the environment - can talk to like a person - can act on the world
  • dagmx 3y ago
    Because it doesn’t relate at all to either device. Both are push to activate by design.
    • sdwr 3y ago
      It's what they're reaching for though. It's the platonic ideal of the product. Before cost, capability, privacy, and expectations on how to "use" a "tool" get in the way.