ExApple engineers create an AI button that looks like an iPod Shuffle but cant explain why
News Source : 9to5Mac
News Summary
- Two former Apple engineers have created their own AI hardware device simply called Button.
- It is a button, inside a case that looks (deliberately) like an iPod Shuffle.
- Inside is a generative AI chatbot.
- Press the button to enable the chatbot to listen, answer questions, and take demands.
- It will answer out loud or can connect to earbuds or smart glasses via Bluetooth.
- It does at least address the privacy nightmare created by always-on devices, but the pair still seem to have no answer to the question why it isn’t simply an app.
I said a couple of years ago that AI hardware devices were like trying to invent the iPod after the iPhone. Two former Apple engineers appear to have leaned into this with an AI button that bears mor [+2127 chars]
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