Humane AI Pin Review Roundup 41
The embargo has lifted for reviews of Humane's AI Pin and the general consensus appears to be that this device isn't ready to usher us into the all-but-inevitable AI future. Starting at $699 with a pricy $24-a-month subscription, the wearable device is designed to incorporate artificial intelligence into everyday scenarios, with the ability to make calls, translate languages, recommend nearby restaurants, and capture photos and videos. "The best description so far is that it's a combination of a wearable Siri button with a camera and built-in projector that beams onto your palm," writes Cherlynn Low via Engadget. While full of potential, the AI Pin creates more problems than it solves and many of the features you'd intuitively expect from it aren't supported at launch.
Here's a roundup of some of the first reviews:
Engadget: The Humane AI Pin is the solution to none of technology's problems
The Verge: Humane AI Pin review: not even close
Wired: Humane Ai Pin Review: Too Clunky, Too Limited
The Washington Post: I've been living with a $699 AI Pin on my chest. You probably shouldn't.
CNET: Humane AI Hands-On: My Life So Far With a Wearable AI Pin
Here's a roundup of some of the first reviews:
Engadget: The Humane AI Pin is the solution to none of technology's problems
The Verge: Humane AI Pin review: not even close
Wired: Humane Ai Pin Review: Too Clunky, Too Limited
The Washington Post: I've been living with a $699 AI Pin on my chest. You probably shouldn't.
CNET: Humane AI Hands-On: My Life So Far With a Wearable AI Pin
How easy is it to steal? (Score:2)
If someone sees me wearing one and they just walk up and grab it and pull on it....?
Re: How easy is it to steal? (Score:3, Insightful)
Don't worry, no one will want it.
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"Siri! Skunk spray!"
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MrMobile shows how easy in his review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Every Time (Score:2)
It used to be the technology press would really spend some time and effort looking into new ideas.
Now they hiss like a diseased alley cat and growl "oh how I hate you."
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It used to be the technology press would really spend some time and effort looking into new ideas.
Now they hiss like a diseased alley cat and growl "oh how I hate you."
Or it could be that this is a useless product at an insanely inflated price with an equally ridiculous monthly subscription tacked on.
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So what would you have said about a useless, ridiculously expensive "solution" to a question nobody asked?
The first part of starting a successful product launch, is having a product that people actually want, or having a product that serves a purpose. This does neither, and costs you $700 + $24/mo to do it.
I'm really not sure what you are looking for when this thing is so very obviously flawed and serves no obvious reason to exist at all.
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It used to be that technology companies would release new products that weren't useless toys whose only purpose was to separate fanbois from their money.
Re: Every Time (Score:2)
lol are you fucking joking? Tech stores and magazines have been full of completely useless overpriced tech gadgets pretty much since the moment we began harnessing electricity.
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It got more time and effort than it deserved. The press isn't a problem here, it's the junk being reviewed.
Re: Every Time (Score:5, Funny)
It used to be that Slashdot was peopled by nerds with healthy skepticism and a love for free software. Now it's primarily a gaggle of starry-eyed techbros with a strong cadre of MAGAts and an unlimited amount of Dunning-Krueger.
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I don't get this. Most of the tech is on the left, even far left -- Google, Twitter pre-Musk, Microsoft with its employees beginning their presentations with land acknowledgement... what used to be liberal and libertarian is now supportive of DEI, trans-related speech control and so on. Those ARE the tech bros. How do MAGAs which are mostly plain folks, not the tech class, play into it in your views?
Re: Every Time (Score:2)
Found the bigot. âoeMAGAs are normal and DEI is evilâ. lol these freaks really think they donâ(TM)t live in a bubble.
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Which of those two you think is more unhappy with the 1st Amendment -- the MAGA crowd or the DEI crowd?
Btw I don't give a shit that you call me bigot, as far as I am concerned the left has shown that their value system is shit. So let's stick to trying to estimate what's going on out there, without passing judgement on what "should" be, according to someone.
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Which of those two you think is more unhappy with the 1st Amendment -- the MAGA crowd or the DEI crowd?
The book burners are obviously more unhappy with the 1A than the people who want you to read more books. Ask a hard one.
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If you are trying to equate MAGA -- by which I mean Trump supporters -- with book burners, that is at best extremely dumb and at worst lying.
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How do MAGAs which are mostly plain folks, not the tech class, play into it in your views?
*gestures at slashdot*
Re: Every Time (Score:2)
Some, yes. Others have been at it for an awfully long time. I suppose they could be long term sock puppets, but that's a long way to go for a troll. It's also boosting MAGA ideas, so they are effectively real MAGAs even if they don't think they are.
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What's wrong with boosting MAGA ideas? I don't mind someone boosting the leftist ideas, as long as they are making an argument and staying out of calling people names (racist, nazi and the usual leftist shit). The best ideas will survive.
It still remains that the tech power centers are left and far left. I know someone working at AirBnB who said employees were told in 2020 that if they declare support for Trump or Republicans ON THEIR PERSONAL social media accounts that's grounds for termination. To say not
Re: Every Time (Score:2)
"What's wrong with boosting MAGA ideas?"
Because they are universally shit ideas come up with by assholes to take advantage of the same rubes who repeat them unironically because they are too fucking stupid to know they're being taken advantage of. Just disguise your grift with enough nationalism and they will parrot it to their graves.
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"Because they are universally shit ideas..."
And so if you think that MAGA ideas is are bad, you believe "boosting" them -- expressing them -- should be banned?
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Looks to me like they did look at the product and correctly identified it as crap.
Let me fix this for you (Score:2)
Engadget: AI is the solution to none of technology's problems
The Verge: AI review: not even close
Wired: Ai Review: Too Clunky, Too Limited
The Washington Post: I've been living with AI. You probably shouldn't.
CNET: AI Hands-On: My Life So Far With AI
It's about getting investment $$$, as you already know
Oh no, no. UI and HCI are bad on their own. (Score:2)
AI is only a part of the problem here.
Product is simply a VERY STUPID solution, inspired by too much Star Trek back in the day - looking for a problem no one has and most people will never have.
Hardware is bad by design. It forces non-intuitive and non-ergonomic use while giving nothing in return - a monochromatic low-power laser projection onto your palm will never be as interactive or readable as presenting the same info on a screen.
Like on a phone or a watch.
UI is bad by design. It forces use of voice fo
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It seems that there's too much money chasing the next big thing... I guess they thought the "star trek communicator" form factor would bring in the geek $$.
Full of potential? (Score:4, Insightful)
"While full of potential..."
False. It is entirely devoid of potential. VC's just can't tell the difference.
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Yep. A lot of people think that the current LLMs are just early prototypes and there is a lot of potential. They are not. They are the end-result of decades of research and optimization and there is very little potential for improvement and any improvement will require massive effort. Oh, and due to "model collapse", no new training data sets can be taken from the Internet (in a massive, commercial piracy campaign) and hence LLMs will now start to get _worse_.
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Obviously some no-honor "moderator" is butt-hurt their fetish is not as good as they expected...
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I have a hunch someone has something against you. Is it something you said?
How the fuck is this offtopic now?
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Probably. There are some assholes that cannot stand others thinking differently from them. Usually there are people that cry "free speech" when they get restricted but that are engaging in active censorship attempts against others. You know, scum.
I am disappointed though: Usually I have at least one stalker. But these people are weak and currently I have none.
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Nobody stalks me. In my younger years, at least the girls were chasing me, but even that died down when I stopped stealing handbags.
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It might have potential.
If you place it high enough.
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So there ARE still people who get modpoints?
Interesting. Didn't get any for like 5 years now.
Then again, I prefer writing to judging.
Seems the reviwer have real intelligence (Score:2)
And are calling out the scam for what it is.
The toy for those of us (Score:2)
who don't think their phone is spying enough on them. Let's instead send EVERYTHING we do to some data collector.
Yay.
Right, I see (Score:2)
and in two weeks, they'll announce that you have to start paying $10/mo to *NOT* have ads on it.