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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2026
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My god, they're making furbys:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/openais-expensive-smart-speaker-will-use-moving-parts-to-seem-more-alive
I'm morbidly curious about how they're going to animate a doughnut. Is it going to wobble? Quiver? Oh god people are gonna, aren't they...
the orifice will pulse invitingly
That sounds like a great way to harm some cylinders.
Slay the spire already did it. There is a donut shaped boss.
And again openAI is late to the party. The realdoll company is already making educational ai robots. ;)
https://www.buttersafe.com/2010/07/01/bagels-and-donuts/
gonna be the biggest flop since that facehugger apple made
Tamagotchi didn't die for this
Speaking a gibberish language is an application genAI is actually capable of delivering on!
Oh excellent, we’ve reinvented Furbies except more creepy
I don't know. My wife swears up and down that the furby she had as a kid was afraid of the dark and would call out for help if it was held upside-down. We can't find any recollection of this behavior or documentation elsewhere, so it may have also been actually haunted.
Being a child and therefore a monster, her response was to leave it in the dark closet hanging upside-down until it accepted that this was its life now.