Body camera, but for civilians.
The Humane AI Pin Launches Its Campaign to Replace Phones
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#162I 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 talking is a function of conversation between two or more people. It isn't the act of speech as a one way carrier. I've been able to dictate to my computer for years but nevertheless still prefer to type. Dictation is actually a skill one has to learn, as in the case of people such as lawyers and actuaries who don't type their own letters, it doesn't come very naturally to most people.
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#163It'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…
As a piece of computing hardware, even with the most recent Snapdragon, it seems likely that it will have to transfer back and forth to the cloud for it's AI on a continual basis which will add loads of annoying latency.
The food thing is cool for that use case because calorie counting via an app is tedious. But holding up a dragon fruit and asking "can I eat this?" is beyond ridiculous.
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#164It'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…
(i'm an investor in the company, and invested over 3 years ago.) this product has always been about AI—what they launched is almost exactly what they pitched me. their expectation of where the world going ended up being prescient.
Call them tomorrow and ask them to fire whoever caused the AI to hallucinate on their tech demo and give a wholly incorrect answer to the question of "where is the next eclipse". Get them to fire whoever didn't check that video for accuracy while you're at it.
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#165Launch Video: https://vimeo.com/882968794 A lot of the interactions seem to take longer vs me just taking my phone out and quickly doing what I need to do. Its compelling given this is a v1 of the product so it will only get better from here but not completely sold on it just yet.
Achieves “all day battery life”… by replacing the battery multiple times a day?
“No wake word so it’s not always listening”… you just activate it with your voice?
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
| How was that not fact checked??? Cause they aren't Apple, just the cheap knock-offs
Apple doesn't make anything close to this hardware?
Ha you're kidding right? This is almost an attempt at adding another product to Apple's existing range of hardware, which is all phenomenally close to this hardware by being a chip, a camera, audio IO, and in their case a screen rather than a projector. You couldn't get closer if you tried.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is especially embarrassing because their logo is literally an eclipse and it's the name of one of their color options... Seriously??
They're not "color options" they are "colorways", you rube. And it doesn't come in three shades of grey, it comes in "Lunar", "Equinox", and "Eclipse". Those colors are worth easily $100 of the MSRP right there.
The colourway of their stock price is soon to come in "blood moon".
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#168This reminds me of Cicret to a very worrying extent.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kind of cool, maybe, but oh my god - the awkward video is such a turn off. Hire some actors!
The whole goal of doing a startup like this as ex-Apple people is the narcissistic "next Steve Jobs" audition they are implicitly doing. I'm sure Steve Jobs rolled over in his grave when they lead with product specs over "why buy this."
Absolutely. It was a snooze fest but as a presentation, even a few minutes in I thought I'd missed the part where they told me what it does and why I needed one asap.
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#170Says there is no wake word, so it's not always listening, but responds to your voice... aka it's always listening then no? And rather only processing info when it thinks it hears a wake word it would always be processing no? Having to hold up my hand to get a limited screen, all seems to be solving a problem that is already solved with a phone, and if one wants a smaller device use an Apple Watch with on device Siri…
>> Says there is no wake word, so it's not always listening, but responds to your voice... aka it's always listening then no? You press it to activate it. That’s when it starts listening. It’s not always on.
Strange given it's placed in a way where it's always there. Did seem like a bit of a contradiction when he said that. It's always listening but it's not always listening but it is.