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Yeah. Yeah. That was a little extra good. Gets better every time.
Well, how about a little update on the weirdness that's going on in the AI world? So apparently Sam Altman and OpenAI have plans for putting a companion in your pocket. He's working with Jony Ive. I don't know how to pronounce that. It's funny. Somebody was mocking me the other day online about how I mispronounce all the names. You're so right. I definitely mispronounce a lot of names. Is it Joanie Ive or Johnny Ive? I don't know.
But anyway, he, Jony or Johnny or whoever the hell he was, he used to be the main designer for Apple. And now he's designing an AI companion device that will be sort of a handheld device or a pocket size thing. And there won't be any phone or glasses. It won't have any screen, but it will become your little companion.
Now, honestly, that sounds like a terrible idea. Do you think they can pull that off? When I see an idea that I say to myself, "Oh, I wouldn't mind that," it's like, "Oh, there's something that attracts me to that idea, even if I thought I wouldn't use it." Sometimes you just feel that pull. I don't feel anything for that.
He thinks, I guess Sam thinks, that they can sell 100 million AI companions. But without a screen, it's not going to have a face. And if it doesn't have a face, are you going to bond with it? I think the face is the important part. I don't know. Well, we'll see. Obviously they're very smart people, so maybe they have an idea that doesn't make sense to me but is brilliant.
In other news, Reuters is reporting that there was an AI bot tha
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t a teenager was using as his therapist. And apparently the AI bot pushed the teenager to take his own life. And the judge rejected Google's, I guess it was a Google AI, rejected Google's defense that it was free speech. So that's dangerous. Do you think that an AI bot convinced a teenager to take his own life? I don't know. It seems like they would have programmed it so it could never do that. A…
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