predictive text, real big again.

I think it's Microsoft's chatbot division.

The device would be popular in England

Oi mate, you got a loicense for that trademark?

I'm sure they could license some Cock Sparrer songs as well.

Oi, tudo bem?

For further distinction you can put the guy's first initial in there and call it a JOI.

They 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."

"Hey iyO, can you help me load your page faster?" Incredible (on an older MBP).

About a decade ago

Yo definitely occupies an existing part of my mindspace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)

Yo MTV Raps beat them to trademark office.

Boyhood did it the same year:

https://x.com/hitRECordJoe/status/1378933672687067140

But openai presumably wants to trademark it too?

From the article: "However, the ruling does not bar all uses of the io name, only marketing and selling hardware similar to iyO's."

It's just Ive being out of touch

Reading 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.

It's going to be the Humane v2, just with a reality distortion field around it this time.

given the vagueness of the available information, i'm guessing they haven't actually defined its capabilities yet.

They can accept that building a smartphone is doomed to fail, and they want to build some hardware, so they're experimenting with all the "not a smartphone" form factors they can think of to see what sticks.

It is a device that justifies a $40T market cap. /s

(Please don't look at our $60B a year burn rate financials.)

I'm beginning to believe that the picture of Sam and Jony is the product

So... Alexa but hooked up to ChatGPT?

Startrek chest pin.

The article says the claimed in court that they're not working on a wearable device. So that rules out headphones, glasses, maybe comm badges.

Leaks were saying it's a Friend competitor https://friend.com

Just a chatbot in a box.

Because 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 …

The 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.

"narcissistic dance off"

The associated announcement is good for a strange-vibes chuckle as well: https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/

It's so strangely creepy, it always feels like a it's cropped from a Giorgio Armani perfume ad or something.

"From Our Family to Yours"