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Jony Ive’s first OpenAI hardware device sounds rather like … a HomePad

Jony Ive's first OpenAI hardware device sounds like ... a HomePad | HomePod touch concept mockup

Jony Ive and Sam Altman have been teasing an AI hardware device for a long time now, and it’s increasingly looking like that tease was premature. We’re still not expecting to see a launch until some point next year.

OpenAI continues to be exceedingly vague about what form its first hardware device might take, but an interview yesterday seems to point to something rather like a HomePad

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ChatGPT told user to ignore lethal condition, but people keep treating it as a doctor

ChatGPT told user to ignore life-threatening condition, but people keep treating it as a doctor | Photo shows an air ambulance in flight

You’d think that it would be obvious that it’s a terrible idea to ask an AI chatbot for a medical consultation, but hundreds of millions of people do it every week.

In one near-death example now the subject of a lawsuit, ChatGPT advised a pastor to ignore symptoms of a pulmonary embolism – a condition with a mortality rate of 30%. In fact, the advice it offered very likely made things worse …

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