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OpenAI's First ChatGPT Gadget Could Be a Smart Speaker With a Camera 55

Posted by BeauHD from the what-to-expect dept.
OpenAI is reportedly developing its first consumer hardware product: a $200-$300 smart speaker with a built-in camera capable of recognizing "items on a nearby table or conversations people are having in the vicinity." It's also said to feature Face ID-style authentication for purchases. The Verge reports: In addition to the smart speaker, OpenAI is "possibly" working on smart glasses and a smart lamp, The Information reports. (Apple may also be working on a smart lamp.) But OpenAI's glasses might not hit mass production until 2028, and while OpenAI has made prototypes of gadgets like the smart lamp, The Information says it's "unclear" if they'll be released and that OpenAI's devices plans are in early stages.
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  • So a surveillance device? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by gweihir ( 88907 ) on Saturday February 21, 2026 @06:12AM (#66002420)

    I guess that makes sense. Obviously, only idiots will get one, but there are plenty of idiots around and OpenAI knows it.

    • Trying to figure out what would be the major value relative to a good phone, why purchase/charge/cary another device. And why such a device should be tied to any single back end. Doesn't seem very revolutionary or innovative.

    • It seems that idiots are on both sides now. VCs have proved to be completely out of touch with reality while their target audience is just fitting them like a glove. I call this the age of the big dumb.

    • I guess that makes sense. Obviously, only idiots will get one, but there are plenty of idiots around and OpenAI knows it.

      The tech industry doesn't just know it. It has literally designed around it.

      Do you assume it's merely convenient that a 5-year old can operate the same touchscreen-and-sniff iOS or Android UI you do?

      The marketing, starts in the womb. All those youthful idiots are highly profitable in a market that doesn't mind marketing gambling addiction to children in the form of games or collecting. Not to mention those idiots attached to parental credit lines enabled on the same device.

    • I believe this stems from the first amendment. Talking stupids out of their hard earned assets and getting them to blame someone else because they can’t tell what’s real is a long honored tradition with a rich history here in America.

      • It's the unspoken founding principle of America, enshrined in law.

        • How do you fight ignorance? We literally have a "free" K-12 system that you are more or less compelled to send your children to. It's down right negligent the results we get out of our system.

          I say "free" as we do pay for it with property taxes and of course school supplies is necessary as well. Still, it's nearly free since we have to pay property taxes regardless of having children or if you home school or have them in private school. Everyone does (should and) support the public school system.

          I'm open fo

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by sinij ( 911942 )

      Obviously, only idiots will get one

      I can see this being forced at work, to monitor office attendance.

    • Not disagreeing, but a comical and true personal anecdote: I used to be an intense privacy nut and advocate as a younger man. Few years back, I was laying on my pull out couch looking at my Alexa and wondering just what had changed.

      Well, I I looked over at my beautiful wife as we were getting high and basking in silly happiness, and told her I figured it out: if someone out there is spending their life listening to my life, they lose. No question. Actually wished in that moment there was some dumb loser

  • HAHAHAHAHAHA! (Score:5, Insightful)

    by YuppieScum ( 1096 ) on Saturday February 21, 2026 @06:28AM (#66002434) Journal

    Not only no, but fuck no.

    • Not only no, but fuck no.

      Ok, ok, but they haven’t even said if it costs extra to be directly plugged into the surveillance 24-7-365.25. Let’s wait and see how sweet this deal can get before jumping to conclusions.

  • Amazon? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by DrMrLordX ( 559371 ) on Saturday February 21, 2026 @06:43AM (#66002456)

    So their plan to further monetize ChatGPT in an attempt to stem losses is to imitate a product that Amazon (and Google) has been selling for years? Lame.

    • A better one. One that is actually useful.

      • A better one. One that is actually useful.

        The technology to implant it directly into your brain is as painless as it is useful.
        distant screams.

      • A better one. One that is actually useful.

        [Citation Needed] If AI has taught me one thing, it's that a natural language processor that expects you to speak to it like a human, and attempts to infer meaning from context is worse than a special purpose tool that does a predefined set of tasks.

        It's why the products these days are so shit. Take me back to the old days of assistants. Where I could say "Hey Google, avoid toll roads", and it would actually just check the checkbox in the Google maps app to avoid toll roads. Nowadays Gemini opens up a fucki

      • Pretty sure both Amazon and Google have already pivoted towards AI with their home speaker lines. The only differentiator here is maybe the camera.

  • They will have my money.

  • The path they try and sell: Exponential IQ and capability growth until people have abundant everything and no longer have to work.

    The actual path: Superbowl Ads, In-chat Ads, Pointless gadgets, IPO, Bankruptcy
    • I think this one might skip IPO. I don't think any reasonable finance person would value them anywhere close to what they want. What, exactly, do they own? A brand? Some IP with questionable value (especially relative to rampant competition)? A bunch of contracts that are basically obligations they cannot fulfill? A lot of resentment from the market? A fickle customer base, only 5% of which pay, generally for less than they cost? Their people and potential future income doesn't count.

      • While I'm not much of a programmer, I've heard a lot of positive things on this site and other places online that claude is a pretty helpful assistant. I don't know what that cost to use per month but if a seasoned programmer can use it to increase their productivity, then it sounds like a net win for at least that person/company.

        I could see generative AI stuff possibly be more useful and some of the slop writing for slop sites that sole purpose to exist is to show ads will benefit from today's AI. The gene

        • I've done decades of programming but still wouldn't call myself much of a programmer. For me, AI is a huge help for coding, but there are several caveats. Any of these tools can increase productivity and even quality. Claude is the best I've used, but far from perfect. You really have to know how to get the value out of it or it makes certain problems worse. I would only consider it for small things, not entire projects, and certainly would never consider "vibe coding". LLMs do random unexpected things incl

    • They seem to ignore common physics. I wonder how they can be enabled to continue to ignore the obvious dynamics behind alchemy.

    • The path they try and sell: Exponential IQ and capability growth until people have abundant everything and no longer have to work.

      The sad reality is humans are capable of delivering potentially exactly that.

      If the species hadn't been infected by the Disease of Greed for oh I dunno, the last few thousand years.

  • capable of recognizing "items on a nearby table or conversations people are having in the vicinity." It's also said to feature Face ID-style authentication for purchases. Not going to tattle on me or Face ID me.

  • Got one of those in my pocket already, thanks.

  • Well... Not anymore!

  • Metaverse here we come (Score:3)

    by boxless ( 35756 ) on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:19AM (#66002634)

    Leaving aside the creep factor, I believe people just don’t want to interact this way. It’s goofy.

    We’ve been down this road before with glasses, augmented reality, whatever.

    “This time it’s different. It will actually be useful in ways you can’t even imagine!”

    Well, that’s a little scary on its face. And I still recoil from the basic use case/form factor even assuming complete benevolence.

    • “This time it’s different. It will actually be useful in ways you can’t even imagine!”

      Yes, but to whom? Useful to me, or useful to scammers, spammers, griefers, stalkers, and identity thieves?

      “This time it’s different. It will actually be useful to the criminals and people out to screw you in ways you can’t even imagine!”

      yippee lol

  • I, for one, am quite sure it is going to be an alarm clock-fly swatter-combination with an optional immersive anemometer. Anthing else is just unqualified guessing, if not gossip.

  • No Microphone? to record everything for transmission to spy ops central @ OpenAI.

  • Would anyone like any toast?"

  • “Prominent artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI recently appointed newly retired U.S. Army General and former National Security Agency [responsibl...ecraft.org] (NSA) director Paul M. Nakasone to its board of directors.”
  • OpenAI won't be around long engough to see this to completion. GPT 5 didn't scale the way they thought it would, investors know they are screwed and are pulling out of projects, NVIDIA is pretending they never commited to invest, and werid vocal fry known liar Sam Altman's plan of "building it and asking it how to make revenue" obviously isn't happening.
  • I am sure some technopeasant will want it.
  • "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork." 1984 - George Orwell

  • So the next big moneymaker is Teddy Ruxpin? Sorry, I meant to say Furbies. SORRY sorry I meant to say Internet of Things. I mean smarthomes.

    This is like how video streaming services re-invented cable tv, and much innovation, such wow, and we're overjoyed to see the return of what we escaped from.

  • You think they might work on perfecting the smart part, before looking for more places to jam it in...

  • The next model will have a screen. For a super lower rate, that we will lock in this one time only, of just $19.99 a month the screen will come with an on-screen personal fitness trainer. Using it will be optional at first. Then they "give" you freebies if you use it, and eventually build a profile to sell to your health insurance, etc. And you'll be paying for the pleasure.

    Now be a good citizen and do your daily exercises.

    P.S. Don't even think of turning your screen off. You don't want to know what happen

  • OpenAI is reportedly developing its first consumer hardware product: a $200-$300 smart speaker with a built-in camera capable of recognizing "items on a nearby table or conversations people are having in the vicinity." It's also said to feature Face ID-style authentication for purchases.

    I guess I still don't understand. Why would I want a camera that listens to my conversations? What exactly is the benefit to me?

    Clue me in, I'm having a hard time understanding the point of it. What's the actual use case for

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