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#Technology, #science, and #computing #journalist and #photojournalist. #Author, #Microbit & #RaspberryPi User Guides. Custom PC columnist. Bylines Hackster.io, Make: Magazine, The Register, Bit-Tech, Wevolver, Tom's Hardware, The MagPi, PC Pro, & more. For fun, #retrogaming, #vintagecomputing, #scifi. User of #opensource including #riscv, #linux, #libreoffice, #thegimp. He/Him.

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Just written an article about an "AI computer" which is, as far as I can tell, a ~$150 Rockchip RK3588 single-board computer that is being sold for $760 and requires an $11-a-month subscription... despite the selling point being you run your AI stuff locally, instead of trusting a cloud service.

Oh, and you need to access it from your existing smartphone, tablet, or PC, because it has no screen, keyboard, microphone, or speaker of its own. And no battery, so find a mains socket too.

Wow.

ghalfacree,
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One of the six buttons on the - I assume (hope?) - mock-up user interface example is labelled "Check my emails," something that the smartphone ALREADY IN THE USER'S HAND apparently couldn't do on its own without involving "AI" running on a companion gadget featuring eight 64-bit Arm cores, a quad-core GPU, a six-TOPS neural coprocessor, and 16GB of RAM.

Again, wow.

ghalfacree,
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@popey Yup. Voice input is handled by your linked smartphone, isn't it? I can't see any mention of a microphone or speaker in the specs.

ghalfacree,
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@popey Isn't he using the laptop's microphone and speaker there? I'm happy to be proven wrong, but there's literally no mention of audio capabilities for the box itself: https://shop.jolla.com/details/1a1f18c3-f050-4893-aa89-2493e2c742d1/

It merely "integrates seamlessly with your phone or computer," it does nothing by itself - unless I'm completely misunderstanding things.

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