Oi mate, you got a loicense for that trademark?

For further distinction you can put the guy's first initial in there and call it a JOI.

Oi, tudo bem?

I'm sure they could license some Cock Sparrer songs as well.

The device would be popular in England

It's so strangely creepy, it always feels like a it's cropped from a Giorgio Armani perfume ad or something.

The associated announcement is good for a strange-vibes chuckle as well: https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/

"narcissistic dance off"

It's going to be the Humane v2, just with a reality distortion field around it this time.

given the vagueness of the available information, i'm guessing they haven't actually defined its capabilities yet.

They can accept that building a smartphone is doomed to fail, and they want to build some hardware, so they're experimenting with all the "not a smartphone" form factors they can think of to see what sticks.

Reading about it, I see some characteristics: no screen, possibly something you can carry in your pocket, possibly has ai-driven awareness of its environment.

OpenAI wants to get into the hardware business, so they came up with something. Is it going to be something people actually want? I am skeptical, but as a consumer it's cool that so companies are trying out various new devices even if most of them are no good.

It's just Ive being out of touch

I'm beginning to believe that the picture of Sam and Jony is the product

So... Alexa but hooked up to ChatGPT?

Startrek chest pin.

It is a device that justifies a $40T market cap. /s

(Please don't look at our $60B a year burn rate financials.)

The market is ripe for ChatGPT in a box, replacing google home or Alexa desktop pucks. God knows the google home assistant has been detuned and detuned to the point it barely works for turning the lights on and off at this point. There's a handful of golf-ball shaped objects on AliExpress for $25 that provide this functionality, powered by an ESP32 IoT chip, but doesn't have wakeword capability (yet). I picked up two for a Home Assistant voice assistant project but haven't had time to dive into it yet.

Leaks were saying it's a Friend competitor https://friend.com

Just a chatbot in a box.

Because Apple won’t give you access to what you need as a dev for this kind of thing on iPhone: always-on audio listening to multiple streams : ambient sound, my voice, whatever is playing in my headphones … think an AI assistant listens to audiobooks together with you and allows you to ask questions / lookup things etc …

They don't mention a camera specifically, but it looks like the Wand has a camera in the end of it.

And they mention "Holding and pressing the action button turns the Privacy Light red and allows the agents to see anything you point Wand at."

"Hey iyO, can you help me load your page faster?" Incredible (on an older MBP).

From the article: "However, the ruling does not bar all uses of the io name, only marketing and selling hardware similar to iyO's."

But openai presumably wants to trademark it too?

Yo definitely occupies an existing part of my mindspace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)

Boyhood did it the same year:

https://x.com/hitRECordJoe/status/1378933672687067140

Yo MTV Raps beat them to trademark office.

About a decade ago

predictive text, real big again.