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Sam Altman thinks the next major shift in consumer tech could be AI-first hardware. His vision goes beyond a smarter phone, a device that can understand conversations, remember context and actually participate in your life. “The iPhone is probably the greatest piece of consumer hardware ever created.” But Altman... show more

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Âxel ⟢5 days ago

He thinks a lot

juliettemasch5 days ago

His vision/idea encompasses Zuckerberg’s. The AI device spoken of, will be inevitably wearable, absorbing into all contexts of one’s life. Only users would be on or definitively off. If a step goes thus astray, it’ll be a dystopia

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