Humane has fully unveiled their Ai Pin gadget. This 10 minute intro video featuring the co-founders gives an overview of what it is capable of. My impression is that the Ai Pin re-imagines the smartphone - take photos, listen to music, look up info, text/call people, etc - but they took the screen off, so the main way to use it is via Siri or Google Assistant along with a few gestures and a blurry laser projection of text onto your hand. I agree that GPT is way better than Apple and Google's voice assistant, but it's not that amazing to avoid the 99% problem where it might be fine for 99% of stuff you want it to do, but that last 1% is a bag of dog shit rendering the device nothing more than a tech demo. It's not a good sign that in the intro video it's spitting out incorrect answers as if it was a fact. Humane's Ai Pin is US-only for now, with pre-orders for the US$699 + US$24/m subscription device kicking off next week and shipments starting in early 2024. I look forward to some independent reviews next year.
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