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Humane AI Pin review: not even close

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Re: Humane AI Pin review: not even close

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Post by MBCook »

ninkendo wrote: post #90
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Siri works great for a lot of the basic use cases that didn’t work in the video. Reminders, notes, alarms, messaging. Honestly I’m guessing it would work just as well for some of the knowledge questions that they asked. It just doesn't or people would be using it and people wouldn't be as excited about LLMs as they are. Comparing Alexa/Siri style, it works if you know the right trigger words and how it expects you…

> it works if you know the right trigger words and how it expects you to ask the question I don't think we should discount this. There's something to be said for a product that works in a specific way, and if you use it in that way, it actually works. I don't need Siri to divine my hidden meaning regardless of how casually or ambiguously I phrase something... but I do want to know the phrase that works 100% of the ti…

Naming things in such a way Siri won’t confuse them is an important skill to make things reliable.

Shouldn’t need to be, but is.

Re: Humane AI Pin review: not even close

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Post by concinds »

petesergeant wrote: post #44

> “AI Pin and its AI OS, Cosmos, are about beginning the story of ambient computing,” Humane’s co-founders, Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, told me in a statement after I described some of the issues I’ve had with the AI Pin. “Today marks not the first chapter, but the first page That statement is several red flags.

"Hu.ma.ne" will be seen as the new Theranos. They're half bad-parody of Apple, half cult.

Re: Humane AI Pin review: not even close

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Post by peanuty1 »

danpalmer wrote: post #61
metalrain wrote: post #26

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Maybe to be accessory to your phone, reduce screentime etc.

I don't get the screentime argument. The way to reduce screentime is to move people off Instagram/TikTok to platforms that aren't optimising for engagement as much, not to make a fancy mini phone for booking Ubers and checking when my flights are, which constitutes almost no phone usage at scale.

I don't think the Humane Pin is capable of booking an Uber or placing an order on DoorDash or Amazon.

Re: Humane AI Pin review: not even close

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Post by danpalmer »

peanuty1 wrote: post #94
danpalmer wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get the screentime argument. The way to reduce screentime is to move people off Instagram/TikTok to platforms that aren't optimising for engagement as much, not to make a fancy mini phone for booking Ubers and checking when my flights are, which constitutes almost no phone usage at scale.

I don't think the Humane Pin is capable of booking an Uber or placing an order on DoorDash or Amazon.

No and that just reinforces the point. The Humane Pin is solving the utility part of what we use our phones for, but our phones have nailed this, with app stores, a screen, and highly optimised booking/checkout flows.

The Humane Pin is aiming at this market, but with far less utility, ability, stability. They say they want to minimise the time we spend on our phones, but I don't regret the 7 seconds it takes to google an actor in the show I'm watching, or the 20 seconds it takes to book an Uber. I regret the 15 minutes I spend scrolling reddit on the toilet, or the hour I spend watching YouTube before bed. That's not the market they're taking aim at.

Re: Humane AI Pin review: not even close

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

ninkendo wrote: post #90
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Siri works great for a lot of the basic use cases that didn’t work in the video. Reminders, notes, alarms, messaging. Honestly I’m guessing it would work just as well for some of the knowledge questions that they asked. It just doesn't or people would be using it and people wouldn't be as excited about LLMs as they are. Comparing Alexa/Siri style, it works if you know the right trigger words and how it expects you…

> it works if you know the right trigger words and how it expects you to ask the question I don't think we should discount this. There's something to be said for a product that works in a specific way, and if you use it in that way, it actually works. I don't need Siri to divine my hidden meaning regardless of how casually or ambiguously I phrase something... but I do want to know the phrase that works 100% of the ti…

>LLM's are likely to be even worse here...

We already know they’re better, even if you screw up the question in some nuanced way which would trip Siri up completely they often get the gist of what you want and provide the expected solution.

Prediction engine vs trigger term syntax

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