I’ve been wanting something like this for a long time (voice first with laser projecion). Somehow I’d envisioned it as a tiny pet monkey robot sitting on my shoulder.
Now this is something I'd buy!
The Humane AI Pin Launches Its Campaign to Replace Phones
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#152It'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
Fun fact. It was completely wrong. That wasn't 15g of Protein. You would need like 3x that much for 15g of protein.
It was also wrong about the solar eclipse.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple lost a lot these days. Leadership is almost gone. Some companies are built by leaders and die with their leaders.
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.
Just for fun, why don't you take a look at this chart & identify the point where Tim Cook became CEO.
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/AAPL:NASDAQ?sa=X&window...
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#154I 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 agree with you. The killer innovation which will flip this is the ability to interact via hardware that takes sub-vocalisation as input. There's work being actively done in this area:
https://news.mit.edu/2018/computer-system-transcribes-words-...
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Just for fun, why don't you take a look at this chart & identify the point where Tim Cook became CEO. https://www.google.com/finance/quote/AAPL:NASDAQ?sa=X&window...
I've had a big position in Apple for ages so I've appreciated what Tim Cook has done for the share price (I could show you similar graphs from a host of other Cook-free Nasdaq companies that show a similar trajectory) it just seems that Apple have solidified the basics but there's been little wow-factor and innovation since Steve Jobs died, and of everyone, Ive would seem more like the successor to that from a cultural and aesthetic standpoint. I think Jobs left Apple with a safer pair of hands at the helm, but perhaps that has become a limiting factor now.
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#156I 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 thought you were going to say the screen is the killer feature. It’s hard to Tok without it.
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That sounds awkward? Anyway, it's cold season now in Europe, and it's interesting how much less useful my Apple watch is when it's almost always covered with a sleeve. Something that goes on top of your clothes makes sense.
But how practical is it really? Let's say it's winter, you have your AI Pin on your winter jacket. Then you get inside and take off your jacket naturally. Then you take off your AI Pin and somehow put both parts of it into and onto your sweater? This sounds very cumbersome. A smartwatch just stays on your wrist. You can even take a shower or go swimming with it if you want to. And a smartphone has a screen you can us…
Not sure how it works with light fabrics. And in direct sun, which kills phones and watches?
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
They likely went with this form factor because it allows for the camera to look forward and use that context in its responses. A watch wouldn't easily be able to do this.
If so, they made a big bet. Vision LLMs were literally made this year. Before that, parsing images to get a coherent response is pretty resource intensive and not really reliable at all. Designing the entire device around image capturing for context seems like a very risky approach so I doubt that was their main reason.
Ultimately cameras and line of sight aren’t necessary. Have you seen what’s on the horizon with, for example, wifi sensing?
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#159I 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?
> But noone ever talks to Siri or Google or Alexa in public.
Because it looks like you’re talking to yourself, and people tend to avoid people who talk to themselves. Especially on the train.
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