How does nobody of these morons understand that phones are in reality at least 80% pocket entertainment and content consumption machines. Yeah you can text, call and browse the web for answers I guess, but I bet that tiktok, instagram and youtube eclipse anything else in terms of time spent in these apps. Its not surprising that our phones are 6"+ pocket screens.
I’m out of the loop. What is “winning humane” and what does it has to do with programming?
Humane is the maker of a new product called an AI pin. Basically, it’s a small computer you pin to your chest. It has no screen and reacts to voice commands after you press the capacitive interface on the front of the pin.
There have been very negative reviews about it. MKBHD did one (yt) and so did Mrwhosetheboss (yt).
TL;DW they don’t see the point and aren’t impressed with the implementation. It’s slow and buggy.
Since the first second their video released I thought to myself “what a bunch of delusional apple wannabes”. From the way their marketing videos are shot, to the way the product looks, it just screams “WE WANT TO BE APPLE”. Except their idea was shit from the beginning and they had probably gotten VCs to give them money so they couldn’t just can it. It’s literally a 700$ microphone with a useless projector, and a 24$ a month openai subscription. I see a lot of people saying “this could have been an app” and I have never seen something more true. This is literally peak silicon valley bullshit.
I mean there’s something to the idea of a screen-less device that doesn’t distract you all of the time.
But then this has a projector and a camera and flashing lights and is basically an interface to the cloud and AI which has its own engagement dynamics, so the whole “be present” thing is likely silicon valley bullshit, as you say.
The bit I can’t get over is that they’ve clearly got funding, hype and connections but are selling a wrapper around another company’s new/untested/probably-just-shit AI service that only came out relatively recently compared to when humane started. So what’s this company actually about? Channeling Apple hype?
Presumably. The company was made by an ex-Apple designer
glad that our generation 1 product even has a chance against a $457.18 billion industry
we capture even 1% of that and we win
I mean, yeah, just about any product should be able to celebrate if they were able to hit $4.5 billion in sales. That’s still a big number. But here’s the thing: capturing 1% in that market still will be really hard. Getting 0.1% would be something to celebrate for a first-gen product from a startup. Getting 0.01% should probably be something to celebrate, and if that’s too small of a number to be celebrating then your company’s probably going to fail.
I could totally see an open-source version of the same, that you can probably put somewhere on your chest. Maybe it could be a all-in-one device to use wired headphone without losing on the music quality by caching it beforehand, or having a really good audio codec and data-transfer tech.
Maybe it could have all of that fancy camera and vibration motor minus the stupid projector, maybe a vlogging camera, or a add-on for medical emergency - measure heart-rate, check for fall-detection, pulse count, etc or something, I don’t know. Maybe it could have the ability to use self-hosted LLMs.
And I could see it having a niche audience like the Pebble smartwatch. But what they’ve come up with is total proprietary garbage. No one in their right minds would pay 1000$ (700$ + additional costs) for this, no one will want to let an AI company harvest their personal data to their their stupidly over-priced model.
Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time.
-Stephenson in Snow Crash’92
I understand the individual words but I have no idea what this is about.
It’s about Apples new AI assistant gadget called Humane, I found out by reading a different post.
It has absolutely nothing to do with Apple
lol, finally googled it and yes there’s no Apple in sight 🤦🏽♀️
There’s a former apple designer on the team I think, which they’ve been leaning into hard to get the hype train rolling.
