The company’s collar has a speaker on it; talk to your pet (or, really, talk to the collar) and you’ll hear a prerecorded human voice responding to you, creating the illusion that your pet has a humanlike personality and the ability to speak English.
This is one of the dumbest pet things I’ve ever heard of. This entire “article” is just an advertisement for one guys shitty startup.
Jeffw, bad boy. Bad!
At first I assumed it was some attempt at an animal translator, then I understood it as a chatbot you use to personify your pet. If you need a robot to tell you to feed your dog, you should not have a dog because the dog already tells you it is hungry.
The only people who will love this product enough to buy it for themself and keep paying for the subscription are people who don’t think their pet has a personality or one of value and they would be better off with a debilitating head trauma.
The idea of my dog having the voice of a mad scientist that likes pediatric cancer is funny, but dear Lord that product is shite.
It’s not like the article is a ringing endorsement of the product. I thought the best parts were where it pointed out how bad and overly priced it is
Where are my balls, Summer?
Where are my testicles, Summer? They were removed, where have they gone?
The most serious question anyone has ever been asked.
Yes, strap a chatbot to the most expressive and communicative animals humans interact with daily. That makes sense.
I wonder how AI bro come up with this idea.
The collar is chatgpt api user. It doesn’t understand your per. It doesn’t translate language whatsoever.
Jesus fucking Christ shoot me now
It’s too bad really. I used to truly like dogs.
I’d imagine at least dogs are smart enough to ignore the stupidity that an AI would spout. Maybe not their owners though.
$595 for a dog collar, $195 annual subscription and $99 anytime you want to change the voice. What world is this?!
a talking collar isn’t likely to help … if the cat is even willing to wear the thing at all.
“Realistically,” Quagliozzi says, “that collar would just be saying ‘get this fucking collar off me’ all the time.”
