If you haven’t heard, OpenAI is merging with Jony Ive’s company io, and they have announced that they are working on a hardware product. They are very jazzed about it. Probably a past version of myself would be too, but given my mixed feelings about where AI sits in our culture right now, I couldn’t help but throw up in my mouth several times while watching the announcement video.

Still, I admit I am very curious what they are cooking up.

I think Jason Snell over at Six Colors has the take on this news that I most closely identify with.

Sam and Jony and skepticism – Six Colors:

But right now, all we have are words and an awkward video of Sam and Jony drinking espresso. The words are all vague. I’ll believe whatever they’re going to release when I see it. Until then, like so much in the AI world in particular and the tech world in general, it’s meaningless hype, signifying nothing.
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