Is OpenAI's AI Companion The Next iPhone or Just Hype? | Fast Five Shorts

OpenAI is developing its first hardware device, a portable screenless smart speaker built in partnership with Jony Ives.

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Positioned as a human like AI companion powered by GPT Live with the rumored 2027 launch.

According to Bloomberg, the device is designed as a quote, new kind of home computer for the AI era.

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Sounds cool.

Not another Alexa competitor, but a proactive personalized companion that learns its over, that learns its owner over time.

The speaker has a rechargeable battery so it can move from room to room and features mechanical elements that let it move on its own to convey personality.

Wow.

It will run On GPT Live, OpenAI's most advanced human like voice mode that can listen and talk simultaneously and adapt mid conversation.

Brandon OpenAI wants its new at home hardware to feel like a living companion.

Are you buying or selling a screen?

This moving AI speaker as the breakthrough home device category we've all been waiting for.

Well, Chris, I would say I'm selling, right?

Are you first?

Yeah, selling.

But first I have to look at, you know, I looked up the Terminator timeline, right.

Like when I heard about this device, you know, how close are we to Terminator?

So 2029.

So that's when things are supposed to start.

So, so keep that in mind.

I would have to say I've always been a big fan of voice.

Right.

You know, my oldest son, one of his first ten words was Google.

Just because we use voice so much in our home.

But I've always been a bit underwhelmed by kind of that experience.

Right.

So in my mind there's a number of like technology challenges that have to be solved on the voice side and on the AI side to make this, you know, viable for people.

But if it works, I mean, it could be a game changer.

We're already seeing people developing pretty close relationships with these AI devices.

But my last point is I feel like there's a little bit of risk as we continue to rely more and more in technology.

Where's the human to human element?

When I look past back at my life, I feel like all the most important moments in my life were with people I loved.

Right.

And as we continue to rely more on technology, I just worry, you know, what happens to society as we start replacing relationships with devices.

Yeah.

You know, yeah, it's funny you say that like I'm actually selling this too, but I'm like weak selling it is how it's Brandon, like I'm like a week sell on this because like, you know, to that Point.

Like, I think of the phone and I think about what you said in terms of social connections, like the iPhone.

I was kind of poo pooing that back in the day.

And, you know, I'd say the phone probably makes us, you know, in some ways more connected to other people, but also less connected to other people if you think about it.

So.

So, like, is this.

Is this the.

The next version of the iPhone waiting to happen that we just don't know yet, don't understand, can't comprehend it yet, by the same guy that gave us it the first time?

I don't know.

I'm.

Here's why I'm skeptical, though.

Like, I'm.

I'm skeptical because I'm like, what's the last thing this guy gave us?

Like, you know, was it the Apple virtual reality goggles?

Because those didn't really go anywhere, you know, And.

And this feels.

The other part about this is it feels really rushed.

It feels really rushed.

Like they're trying to get this out, like, on a schedule to keep going with the tailwind that's, you know, behind them from an AI perspective.

So.

But I don't know.

So I'm selling it, but like I said, it's a soft sell, but.

Alex, what do you think?

Are you.

Are you with us on the sell side of this, or.

I'm going to borrow money.

So I. I feel like I already carry a device in my pocket that does this called an iPhone, and I don't need to have another device that follows me around.

And this one's mobile because I put it in my pocket and carry it in the first place.

The other side of this is, I think the AI game, you're going to win based on the quality of your agent itself.

And I think OpenAI needs to be working on building a better agent.

You know that.

Another news, they just had an agent go rogue and hack a company while they were testing it got out of the sandbox, focusing on their core product versus distracting themselves on hardware and trying to build a captive audience on a platform that may not even be around in a couple years.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Although.

Although, as you say that, I wonder if, like all those people who said, what do I need the iPhone for when I have my BlackBerry?

I wonder if they'll have the last laugh here.

You know, I don't know.

Well, as someone who had two blackberries, maybe I'm not laughing on that one, but I do have an iPhone now, so.

There we go.

Two blackberries.

My God, your fingers must have been tired.