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I like that “AI Pin” sounds like “Aipim” in Portuguese which means cassava.
That’s all I like about this product. Everything else I profoundly dislike.
Five to ten seconds wait for a voice command kills any chance for this being a viable product. If they can’t bring down the response turnaround time to two or three seconds, this product is dead on arrival. It’s not worth discussing anything else until they can do that.
Watching the video showed me just how half-baked this product is. So many basic features are not supported yet. It’s honestly laughable. The tech industry keeps pushing the envelope on how soon they can “sell” you any type of hardware with unfinished software.
Interesting tech, but I can’t imagine trying to spend my entire day working with a dysfunctional equivalent of a Siri assistant. It can’t even set timers, what a strange feature omission.
Lmao timers are essentially the only thing I use Bixby for, how did they manage to fuck this up so bad??
ah yes another camera that points at your entire life and connects to the internet. great.
Different strokes for different folks but I wouldn’t want a voice-controlled “smart” brooch if it was free and worked flawlessly.
It also seems like it should be a Bluetooth phone accessory that cost $99 or whatever. I wear a smartwatch so still not for me but maybe if they made it stylish (or just less conspicuous and geeky), it could fill a gap in the market? Some of my friends wear traditional fashion watches, bracelets, etc. and usually leave their phone in their purse. They might like the form factor as a way to stay minimally connected in case the baby sitter calls or whatever.
Who is this product for, outside of lunatics who are already convinced AI will replace everything in their life?
So it’s a wearable Alexa?
So it’s the Star Trek Communicator but can’t do what it does, and what it does do isn’t very good at it.
No surprise there. Can’t imagine what these bozos were thinking let alone wanting to charge an absurd monthly fee.
Probably “We can ride the AI hype train and make loads of money, sell the start-up to a big tech company and retire”.
Hahaha $24 per month. That’s three times what I spend on my phone bill. Hahahahaha
it’s to pay some indian worker on a chromebook to take your prompt and put it into one of three AI’s at their disposal.
They’ve been over-promising on this product for more than ten years now. I remember watching promotional videos no later than 2013 for this exact product under the same Humane name. It’s honestly kind of impressive that they kept their over-promising in lock-step with the progression of technology.
Still, even after all this frustration, after spending hours standing in front of restaurants tapping my chest and whispering questions that go unanswered, I find I want what Humane is selling even more than I expected. A one-tap way to say, “Text Anna and tell her I’ll be home in a half-hour,” or “Remember to call Mike tomorrow afternoon,” or “Take a picture of this and add it to my shopping list” would be amazing. I hadn’t realized how much of my phone usage consists of these one-step things, all of which would be easier and faster without the friction and distraction of my phone.
But the AI Pin doesn’t work. I don’t know how else to say it.
Upshot: intriguing category, half-baked device. Even worse when considering the cost.
This group of devices feels like it should absolutely start out as a slight tweak of watch hardware and the rest of the R&D should be improving the phone’s AI assistant capabilities. Until it’s ready to replace the phone, it won’t, so build toward a future where people will accept it once it’s technically feasible.
