It's funny that the company was founded 6+ years ago and this product has been in development at least since that time, but all of a sudden it's all about AI? We really going to pretend all these features weren't shoveled in in the last 3 months by buying a ChatGPT API token? Recognizing the food you are holding and coming up with a calorie count was the only part of the demo I found genuinely cool, but I also know t…
>Recognizing the food you are holding and coming up with a calorie count was the only part of the demo I found genuinely cool
I just don't get this, or any other "VUI"/voice-centric platform for that matter. The killer feature of the smartphone or watch isn't that it's the most convenient (which it is), it's that whatever you want to do on it is at least somewhat private. I don't want the guy next to me on the train to know I'm messaging Andrew, and he doesn't want to hear me message Andrew either. Asking me to speak out loud these commands…
Think about aging population. As to privacy, same problem exists with taking phone calls in public yet we somehow manage just fine.
I just don't get this, or any other "VUI"/voice-centric platform for that matter. The killer feature of the smartphone or watch isn't that it's the most convenient (which it is), it's that whatever you want to do on it is at least somewhat private. I don't want the guy next to me on the train to know I'm messaging Andrew, and he doesn't want to hear me message Andrew either. Asking me to speak out loud these commands…
I wonder where this dislike of talking to computers in public is coming from? People often discuss private topics on a train, and don't care that others might be listening. People talk loudly on the phone when in public. Some even talk on speaker phone. But noone ever talks to Siri or Google or Alexa in public. Why is that?
I just don't get this, or any other "VUI"/voice-centric platform for that matter. The killer feature of the smartphone or watch isn't that it's the most convenient (which it is), it's that whatever you want to do on it is at least somewhat private. I don't want the guy next to me on the train to know I'm messaging Andrew, and he doesn't want to hear me message Andrew either. Asking me to speak out loud these commands…
I wonder where this dislike of talking to computers in public is coming from? People often discuss private topics on a train, and don't care that others might be listening. People talk loudly on the phone when in public. Some even talk on speaker phone. But noone ever talks to Siri or Google or Alexa in public. Why is that?
Tim Cook has done his supply-chain job and needs to move along. Not sure why investors aren’t pushing for this. I was listening to the recent earnings call and when he says things like “super excited” he couldn’t sound more monotonously unexcited. Jony Ive would have made a great CEO and figurehead.
On the other hand, he's also strongly associated now with bad decisions like the Touch Bar and butterfly keys.
Apple will simply own this market as well, if it even becomes a market at all. They are by far the best positioned company and everyone already is locked in to the hardware. As soon as Siri becomes good by leveraging llm, Apple is bound to dominate here. You don't even need another device to get half of what this does. Next gen airpods/ apple watches provide similar use cases.
Seems like this Humane product has beaten Apple and Google to the punch even though they have the voice assistants for years
I just don't get this, or any other "VUI"/voice-centric platform for that matter. The killer feature of the smartphone or watch isn't that it's the most convenient (which it is), it's that whatever you want to do on it is at least somewhat private. I don't want the guy next to me on the train to know I'm messaging Andrew, and he doesn't want to hear me message Andrew either. Asking me to speak out loud these commands…
Think about aging population. As to privacy, same problem exists with taking phone calls in public yet we somehow manage just fine.
And public pay phones used privacy shrouds... I think they managed to understand the implications long ago.
I see this as another war on privacy by the population of extroverted over-sharers that inhabit social media.
Their demo of AI Q&A in the announcement video (@3:36) is totally wrong. The Pin says the April 2024 total eclipse will be best viewed from Australia and East-Timor... Except the eclipse passes over the US and will be nowhere near Australia. The answer seems to be about a partial eclipse in April 2023. How was that not fact checked???
The demo was showing how you can interact with it. I don't think this is a big deal. If they're using GPT-4 or another model, then it will be resolved when the AI model is.
I just don't get this, or any other "VUI"/voice-centric platform for that matter. The killer feature of the smartphone or watch isn't that it's the most convenient (which it is), it's that whatever you want to do on it is at least somewhat private. I don't want the guy next to me on the train to know I'm messaging Andrew, and he doesn't want to hear me message Andrew either. Asking me to speak out loud these commands…
I wonder where this dislike of talking to computers in public is coming from? People often discuss private topics on a train, and don't care that others might be listening. People talk loudly on the phone when in public. Some even talk on speaker phone. But noone ever talks to Siri or Google or Alexa in public. Why is that?
Because people find the concept of a person talking to themselves in public a bit weird, and talking into a completely unthinking machine is basically that. Maybe perceptions could change when low-latency conversational AI is very widespread but I think for the medium term unless there's a second human involved, people will still instinctively see it as talking to yourself, not talking to "someone".