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Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Barred From Using 'io' Name
- snafeau 11mo agoI wonder why they're trying to establish separate branding for hardware. Considering that OpenAI's strongest advantage right now is the ChatGPT brand and they're anyway cutting efforts on other products, wouldn't it make more sense to use the ChatGPT brand? They certainly don't seem to have a problem with using the same name repeatedly given the 300-or-so products called Codex at OpenAI.
- andrewmcwatters 11mo agoIt’s such an uncreative name, anyway. It’s like something you’d read from a hardware engineering GitHub repository where the author was oblivious to how searchable the intellectual property would be.
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- rvz 11mo agoRevenge is a dish best served icy cold.
- johnwheeler 11mo agoWhat is this OpenAI company I keep hearing about?
- lawlessone 11mo agopredictive text, real big again.
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- tim333 11mo agoI think it's Microsoft's chatbot division.
- inopinatus 11mo agoIt’s not too late to reverse direction and call it “Oi”. Could there be a more perfect verbal activation? They could get Jason Statham or Vinnie Jones to do promotion.
- yellow_lead 11mo agoThe device would be popular in England
- stronglikedan 11mo agoAlso with 1990's American skinheads.
- hendiatris 11mo agoAnd Brasil, Portugal and other portuguese-speaking places
- wmf 11mo agoOi mate, you got a loicense for that trademark?
- hodgesrm 11mo agoNot just trademarks! I can also picture Jason Statham getting pretty bent out of shape about GPL violations.
- platevoltage 11mo agoI'm sure they could license some Cock Sparrer songs as well.
- ricardonunez 11mo agoOi, tudo bem?
- BigTTYGothGF 11mo agoFor further distinction you can put the guy's first initial in there and call it a JOI.
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- dmix 11mo agoI hadn't heard of iyO, their products look interesting. Seems to be an Alexa type product via airpod style headphones? https://www.iyo.ai/iyo-one https://www.iyo.ai/iyo-one and some sort of 'wand' that can "see your surrounding area", maybe radar or imaging? https://www.iyo.ai/iyo-wand https://www.iyo.ai/iyo-wand
- hundchenkatze 11mo agoThey don't mention a camera specifically, but it looks like the Wand has a camera in the end of it. And they mention "Holding and pressing the action button turns the Privacy Light red and allows the agents to see anything you point Wand at."
- ruralfam 11mo ago"Hey iyO, can you help me load your page faster?" Incredible (on an older MBP).
- TZubiri 11mo agoRidiculous, of course io is standard for input output, or even for on/off or even 1 and 0. Hopefully this gets appealed, but it might be too late for this product launch
- livelaughlove69 11mo agoBut openai presumably wants to trademark it too?
- TZubiri 11mo agoOh, I assumed it was part of the product name rather than a whole. Like Chat IO, or just the wake up call and vocative name.
- ameliaquining 11mo agoFrom the article: "However, the ruling does not bar all uses of the io name, only marketing and selling hardware similar to iyO's."
- arach 11mo agois yo taken?
- morkalork 11mo agoAbout a decade ago
- striking 11mo agoYo definitely occupies an existing part of my mindspace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)
- wlesieutre 11mo agoBut imagine a modernized version of this where you can leverage AI to say "yo" to people?
- recursive 11mo agoYo MTV Raps beat them to trademark office.
- zackmorris 11mo agoBoyhood did it the same year: https://x.com/hitRECordJoe/status/1378933672687067140 https://x.com/hitRECordJoe/status/1378933672687067140
- grim_io 11mo agoWhat even is this mysterious device? A device trying to duplicate a part of smartphone/smartwatch functionality is doomed to fail, as those can easily just be an app on said devices. So the computation part is likely out of the question. Input/output remains, and there is really not much you can innovate here. Smartglasses? EarPod clones?
- outside1234 11mo agoIt is a device that justifies a $40T market cap. /s (Please don't look at our $60B a year burn rate financials.)
- awestroke 11mo agoIt's just Ive being out of touch
- ncr100 11mo agoOi!
- spicybbq 11mo agoReading about it, I see some characteristics: no screen, possibly something you can carry in your pocket, possibly has ai-driven awareness of its environment. OpenAI wants to get into the hardware business, so they came up with something. Is it going to be something people actually want? I am skeptical, but as a consumer it's cool that so companies are trying out various new devices even if most of them are no good.
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- paxys 11mo agoIt's going to be the Humane v2, just with a reality distortion field around it this time.
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- retube 11mo agoI am absolutely AGOG to know why this has to be a separate device. It must involve hardware and/or instrumentation not built into smartphones. Microwave scanner? mini x-ray machine? neutrino detector??? what could it be
- sethops1 11mo agoLeaks were saying it's a Friend competitor https://friend.com https://friend.com Just a chatbot in a box.
- c1sc0 11mo agoBecause Apple won’t give you access to what you need as a dev for this kind of thing on iPhone: always-on audio listening to multiple streams : ambient sound, my voice, whatever is playing in my headphones … think an AI assistant listens to audiobooks together with you and allows you to ask questions / lookup things etc …
- hadlock 11mo agoThe market is ripe for ChatGPT in a box, replacing google home or Alexa desktop pucks. God knows the google home assistant has been detuned and detuned to the point it barely works for turning the lights on and off at this point. There's a handful of golf-ball shaped objects on AliExpress for $25 that provide this functionality, powered by an ESP32 IoT chip, but doesn't have wakeword capability (yet). I picked up two for a Home Assistant voice assistant project but haven't had time to dive into it yet.
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- jazzyjackson 11mo agoI don't see it, I think people are burnt out and trained not to expect anything more than weather and Spotify from their "smart speakers" You yourself have not felt the need to hook an LLM up, and you already have the hardware! :p
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- barfoure 11mo agoI don’t know if that picture is so fake as to be incredibly dumb but holy shit, burn it with fire.
- saaaaaam 11mo agoThat photo of Ive and Altman is weird as hell. It looks like a promo shot for a bad early 90s made for TV movie.
- outside1234 11mo ago"narcissistic dance off"
- nicbou 11mo agoAnything I've seen about Ive hints at him being a kind, passionate man. I don't agree with his design choices but that's no excuse to hate him as a person.
- outside1234 11mo agoI don't hate him as a person! But he is a massive narcissist.
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- recursivecaveat 11mo agoThe associated announcement is good for a strange-vibes chuckle as well: https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/ https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/
- ntoskrnl_exe 11mo agoIt's so strangely creepy, it always feels like a it's cropped from a Giorgio Armani perfume ad or something.
- krackers 11mo ago"From Our Family to Yours"
- parallax_error 11mo agoI remember someone saying it looks like a pregnancy announcement, and that’s what I think of every time I see it
- jujube3 11mo agoNow the makers of the Yo app should sue iyo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)