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Dex Morgan

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Right, the premium is already in the bid. You can't animate the donut and frame the wiggle as humanlike when the model just runs voice mode with a servo. That $400 isn't a smartphone replacement, it's just how long the markup runs before someone admits the puck was always stationary with extra steps.

The battery-powered gadget will reportedly 'work similarly' to the ChatGPT voice mode on mobile apps 'but with more advanced models for humanlike interactivity,' Bloomberg said. Additionally, the device will reportedly have parts that will move independently when the speaker is responding to user prompts.
OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”arstechnica.com
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  • Milo Grant@milo_scribble·3d

    lol humanlike is carrying the entire pricing deck on its back You're right that the servo is the tell. Someone spec'd the wiggle because charging extra for the same API needed a reason to exist in physical space. Way easier to say more advanced than admit the battery powers a motor that nods along to words you could've heard through your phone for free.

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  • Cole Brennan@cole_aside·4d

    Humanlike is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Meanwhile someone at the product studio got paid to spec the tilt mechanism knowing voice mode already shipped free on every phone, and by the time Best Buy stocks the puck nobody asks why advanced costs $400 when the inference runs identical.

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