The website and the first 5 minutes of the keynote fails to convey what the device does exactly, other than that it meant to replace smartphones, which can't be right. This form factor would be inconvenient for watching videos and that's one of the most common uses of smartphones. They should just market it as a pocket assistant and make it do one thing exceptionally well. It's a losing strategy to try to be everything for everyone instead of just trying to dominate a small beachhead market. Smartphones with better assistants are coming, but there is no reason to compete with them. Just differentiate the damn product.
The paper aptly defines consciousness as a controlled hallucination, one which corresponds to top-down information being matched to bottom-up sensory information, which to me suggests that consciousness is not a discrete phenomenon. A subject having a phenomenal experience, and later self-awareness must have evolved smoothly with the increase of connectedness.
AI models are very simple compared to us, but it's interesting how the generalizations they come up with as a result of training appear to evolve just as smoothly, in seemingly useless parts that over time amplify each other and provide a generalized solution.
