Great. I hope everyone (except me) gets this pin. A society where everyone competes to yell out their texts is the kind of chaotic future I live for.
The Humane AI Pin Launches Its Campaign to Replace Phones
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#182Just imagine going on a date with one of these, even a business meeting - "just so you know, I'm going to be filming and recording everything you say and do by pointing this camera at you throughout, so my AI can analyse every movement and utterance of yours but none of mine. Oh but trust me, it's only recording when I say it's recording, and no, of course I'm not going to put the video of you on social media."
This is gonna be a hard sell, or lead to achingly short dates.
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
> street kids are going to pull these off people at a phenomenal rate, leaving people with just unhappy memories alongside a battery pack swimming somewhere inside their jumper. I can't believe I didn't think of this. Imagine a dev conference for these things... The first headline would be "Humane AI Pin Developers Cleaned Out". A group of bad actors could (would) just run down a line/through a room and snatch these…
> I can't believe I didn't think of this. Because it’s not going to happen. There were about a trillion sets of wired white earbuds pointing to iPods/iPhones for about a decade plus. Sure, there were some thefts, but to say they happened at a “phenomenal rate” would be nonsense. And iPods/iPhones were orders of magnitudes more popular than this Pin will ever be. Street kids won’t even know what a Pin is.
I reckon spending the day in central London would prove that not to be the case. The difference with this and iPods/iPhones is that those things can at least be secured in a pocket or a hand - this thing is there floating on you, out of your context. One bump on the tube and it's gone. One kid running past you before you can move your hand to hold it, and it's gone. Street kids will totally know what this is, they're really tech savvy, particularly with new tech. One of the most prevalent groups using Blackberries back in the day were street kids. One wouldn't think street kids know the value of luxury wrist-watches, but people are being held up all the time to have them stolen from them. Stealing one of these pins, even for lulz, is beyond trivial if its only attachment is a magnet.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
(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.
That would be Sam Sheffer. Yeah he should get fired
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#185Good exploration of the clip/pin/brooch form-factor that was previously explored by the Narrative Clip ( http://getnarrative.com/ ). Can it be worn on a necklace? That seems more convenient than attaching it to different pieces of clothes and having it tear/wrench at the fabric.
The Narrative Clip is 18g, this is 55g... I can tell from experience that 18g on your t-shirt is OK, but just barely. A 55g is clunky like crazy. It's OK if you're going to do some action cam footage in a session, but not wearing all day "without thinking of it".
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
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".
This company will never go public. It's share price has never been anything but 0.
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#187I 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?
Siri/google/alexa generally understand less without repetition, especially as complexity increases, than our fellow human. Making it doubly annoying in public
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#188I don’t even care if the quality of the build is great, I bet it is, I just don’t see consumer market ready for something like this. They might have better luck in b2b world of logistics warehousing. Why are we still solving for non-existing problems? Look shiny new ai thing
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#189Is it safe to put a gsm device around your heart?
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That would be Sam Sheffer. Yeah he should get fired
It really is a terrible video.