Can an AI Device Replace the Smartphone?

A group of former Apple executives is launching a consumer device that will be among the first to use a ChatGPT-powered voice assistant, one of a number of new hardware offerings seeking to free users from the ubiquity of smartphones.

On Thursday, the San Francisco-based startup Humane announced the availability of a wearable device, called the Ai Pin, which sits on a user’s chest like a Star Trek badge. The company said its main function is to access an artificial-intelligence assistant that uses ChatGPT, the hugely popular chatbot created by Microsoft-backed OpenAI, primarily to understand commands.