What I don't understand is, this device has been in development since 2018. Obviously the founders didn't intend it to be a ChatGPT wrapper many years before ChatGPT existed. So what was the original vision, and what made them do a half-assed last minute pivot and redo the whole thing right before launch?
Humane AI Pin review: not even close
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#12I'm surprised they made it so much worse than, say, Siri on an Apple Watch (which is something I've been using for years, and which might well become my only phone if Apple ever allows me to fully manage a watch from an iPad mini).
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#13A 4/10 is way too high for this review, when the conclusion is it barely ever works and instead "just buy an Apple watch".
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#14> this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone.
Here's an even more effective solution: stop using your smartphone! After I stopped using my phone, I realized it had almost no value except some diversionary value that was actually just a distraction in disguise. I still have to use it at times such as 2FA, but other than that I rarely use it.
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#15> this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. Here's an even more effective solution: stop using your smartphone! After I stopped using my phone, I realized it had almost no value except some diversionary value that was actually just a distraction in disguise. I still have to use it at times such as 2FA, but other than that I rarely use it.
What do you use to communicate with other humans?
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#16This is honestly kinda glorious, a company that seems to want to use AI as every other word to get as many investors to give them money as possible shoehorns AI with a reputation for hallucination into an expensive device that isn't even close to the promise if what it could do. That just screams a culmination of the last couple of years of "AI" and I am kinda loving that this happened. Maybe, just maybe, Investors w…
this is the same hope and thoughts I have!
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#17Humane wants to free us from our smartphones. I wonder if that's only because apps like theirs are not allowed on the iPhone?
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#18> this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. Here's an even more effective solution: stop using your smartphone! After I stopped using my phone, I realized it had almost no value except some diversionary value that was actually just a distraction in disguise. I still have to use it at times such as 2FA, but other than that I rarely use it.
What do you use to communicate with other humans?
Mouth. Email and social media still work great on desktops/tablets too!
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#19> this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. Here's an even more effective solution: stop using your smartphone! After I stopped using my phone, I realized it had almost no value except some diversionary value that was actually just a distraction in disguise. I still have to use it at times such as 2FA, but other than that I rarely use it.
What do you use to communicate with other humans?
You can speak to them directly.
Re: Humane AI Pin review: not even close
#20> this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. Here's an even more effective solution: stop using your smartphone! After I stopped using my phone, I realized it had almost no value except some diversionary value that was actually just a distraction in disguise. I still have to use it at times such as 2FA, but other than that I rarely use it.
What do you use to communicate with other humans?
Email on a computer? Voice and in person? A telephone that you plug into a wall?