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All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets | We were promised multimodal, natural language, AI-powered everything. We got nothing of the sort.
We were promised better Siri, better Alexa, better everything. Instead we’ve gotten… chip bumps.
Others have resorted to shipping more iterative, less interesting upgrades because they have run out of ideas other than “put AI in it.” That has made the post-ChatGPT product cycle bland and boring, in a moment that could otherwise have been incredibly exciting. Amazon was once among the most interesting, experimental hardware makers on the market — remember that one year it launched like 6,000 Alexa devices in one day, including a microwave and a wall clock? For the last year or so, the hottest thing in startups has been “put a microphone on a lanyard, record your whole life, and use AI to do… something with it!” That’s the pitch for Friend, and Omi, and Limitless, and Plaud, and Bee, and so many others.
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