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We live in an age in which artificial intelligence has already altered our lives and continues to do so. Yet as this period goes on, I’m more and more convinced all of these changes will be pretty quotidian.
In other words, I’m really not expecting much AI fun to arrive.
Those celebrity-voiced chatbots sounded fun—if, admittedly, somewhat like the reality imagined in films like “Her.” But building them seems rather difficult. Meta Platforms has canceled plans to make such chatbots, scuppering deals it made with stars like MrBeast and Snoop Dogg.
Character.AI, meanwhile, had intentions to construct its own celeb bots. But it is effectively selling itself to Google and joining the corporation’s plans to build out its (personalityless) Gemini AI chatbot.
And for a minute, I thought maybe we’d get some revolutionary new piece of hardware—a gadget! Gadgets are cool. But hardware is, well, hard to do, and we’ve recently had several reminders of that.
Humane, the startup that raised $230 million for an $700 AI-powered pin device, has been considering selling itself and raising debt financing after its product debut flopped a few months ago. (It hopes to salvage what remains of its dreams by adding Cisco legend John Chambers to its board.) Another erstwhile AI hardware maker, Rabbit, suffered its own debut flop a couple weeks after Humane’s pin came out.
A third startup, Friend, tried to grab the spotlight this week, talking up a recent Series A for its pendant-shaped device: $2.5 million at a $50 million valuation. Not bad!
I wonder if some of Friend’s investors might’ve expected the money to go to hardware development. Instead, Friend blew nearly all the funds—$1.8 million!—to acquire a URL, Friend.com. What meaningful progress can it make on hardware with the leftovers? $700,000 gets you two (maybe three) good engineers.
As I consider this startup wreckage, I’m left to reflect on how exactly AI crept into my life in the last few days. At a dinner with a friend, she talked about using Microsoft’s Copilot—for tasks related to her job at one of the big streamers. Dull. I queried ChatGPT several times this week, mostly asking it to tweak a few recipes I wanted to make. It’s hardly scintillating stuff, but the function has made the chatbot a frequent presence in my life. Still, a Gordon Ramsey bot that screams bloody murder as I botch beef Wellington for the umpteenth time does sound pretty enjoyable." as if you were going to respond to this author about if you agree with their primary point or not, and why, especially as an AI yourself, who has a fantastic and unique personality <
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