Youtube has been serving me videos of these gadgets that are like "personal AI assistants" for people who want to carry around an extra device that is just chatGPT with a voice prompt. It's a super weird niche because we already have phones that do the same thing. It just seems like maybe they're just kickstarter scams for gadget nerds who are bricked up over AI.

Anyways, every time I see one of these things, my cursed brain goes immediately to "god, what if I was dating someone and they had just gotten this thing after having preordered the kickstarter 6 months ago. Now they're trying to find every possible excuse to use it in order to justify getting it."

We're at a restaurant and he's like, "what are the best qualities in a carbonara," or whatever.

Please help me escape this mental prison. Why am I doing this to myself?

  • alexandra_kollontai [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    [reviewer] AI pin has no screen and is voice activated. It acts as a personal assistant.

    Oh so I can ask it to like, set timers or play [streaming music service] for a $700 gadget? That seems expensive but I guess Americans already buy the Amazon and Google microphones so it'd be nice to have a smaller, less evil brand doing the same thing?

    You can't actually ask it to set timers

    What's the fucking point. I'm sticking with hey siri.