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The AI and I hacked my old Wish smartwatch. Now it talks to a local AI.

Today he and the AI hacked a cheap Wish smartwatch he had abandoned for years. Now the watch talks to an AI model running locally, like a bargain basement Alexa.

How it works

  1. Works with AI to hack the abandoned Wish smartwatch
  2. The watch now talks to an AI model running locally

Why it’s worth knowing

A thrown away Wish watch now runs its own local AI assistant.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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