Youtube has been serving me videos of these gadgets that are like “personal AI assistants” for people who want to carry around an extra device that is just chatGPT with a voice prompt. It’s a super weird niche because we already have phones that do the same thing. It just seems like maybe they’re just kickstarter scams for gadget nerds who are bricked up over AI.
Anyways, every time I see one of these things, my cursed brain goes immediately to “god, what if I was dating someone and they had just gotten this thing after having preordered the kickstarter 6 months ago. Now they’re trying to find every possible excuse to use it in order to justify getting it.”
We’re at a restaurant and he’s like, “what are the best qualities in a carbonara,” or whatever.
Please help me escape this mental prison. Why am I doing this to myself?
It’s a massively overpriced device for a somewhat overhyped technology. But, that alone doesn’t mean much, we all get suckered in by marketing and ideas sometimes. And the device arguably has some minorly helpful uses.
I might make a joke about it, but personally, if I was in that position, I wouldn’t overly worry on the basis of seeing this alone.