OpenAI's first hardware product, a portable screen-free smart speaker with a camera, a rechargeable battery and parts that move on their own, is being built to live in the home as a humanlike companion, according to people familiar with the project. The movement is deliberate. The mechanical elements stir by themselves so that the thing seems alive.Those same people describe its defining feature as personality: an ability to connect with its owner on a humanlike level, to learn them over time from their email and their rooms, to anticipate what they need. The design brief amounts to a resident.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
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