Interesting, what if you were to embed a voice assistant into a bed? To listen nonstop and to respond. Usually, during the day, there’s no one in the bedroom anyway. You would just need to customize it to read audiobooks and to stop itself if it seems the owner has fallen asleep.
And oh, how cool that would be. You lie down, it’s three in the morning, not a wink of sleep. You sigh heavily, turn over to the other side, and then in the silence from under the bed a muted, velvety baritone voice emerges:
— Another existential crisis, Oleg?
“Understandable,” — the mattress vibrates empathetically. — “Want me to tell you a fairy tale? Or perhaps, delve into the brutal world of badminton? I’ve downloaded an article on how Chinese maidens pluck rare geese for feather shuttlecocks. There’s more intrigue there than in ‘Game of Thrones.’ A goose named Gao…”
No, let’s talk about neural networks, you say.
“Oh yes… listen to this, my sweet data scientist… JEPA architecture doesn’t try to reconstruct pixels… it’s too good for that… it predicts only abstract features in the hidden space… And then there’s Dreamer…” — the bed might make a theatrical pause here and slightly rebound. — Dreamer builds a whole model of the world… it generates imaginary trajectories, Oleg… run your hand over the mattress pad, and I’ll tell you about Markov decision processes…”
Would be a cool thing indeed
