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A smart lamp? They are really out of ideas on how to build a separate "AI enabled" hardware device.
I have a feeling Altman wants to launch a modern equivalent of the iPhone (even though powerful smartphones existed way before the iPhone, I was using J2ME Gmail, Google Maps in 2004. Some websites even had a mobile version).
Eh, I have some smartbulbs around the house. I have one upstairs and one downstairs that automatically turn on around sunset and turn off around dawn: I want my elderly pets to be able to navigate safely to get to wherever they want to be. I have a couple other smartbulbs installed in the two places that are often accidentally left on and that we had to make special trips to turn off when we were going to bed. And I've set timers on some of them to go on and off randomly when we've gone on vacation. So I can understand the basic use cases.
But the thing is, we've done all that without needing a special "lamp" to handle that for us. I'm not sure what market the lamp will be targeting.
Altman is too dumb to make an iPhone-level product.
The idea of the iPhone was staring us all in the face: The cellular phone continued to evolve until Jobs and Apple moved the goalposts on what made a phone a phone. An AI-first product doesn’t yet exist and adding AI to a tried and true product (like a lamp) will never make a lamp into a better lamp. It’s just a more complicated lamp. These people are going to have a much harder time than Jobs to make a new product because it has to be truly original. Jobs never made an original product. He just evolved the last version better than anybody else could.