the thing about the humane ai pin is that it sucks so bad it becomes a compelling object to me. like there's no universe in which it's good, but if the general review gist was "it works well enough but it's unclear who it's for" then that's boring. who cares. consumer technology that's for no one is a dead market.
but something that just unequivocally sucks? that's interesting.
i feel like there is probably something wrong with me.
'Strap a small iPhone to your titty and let it project the answer to 'How much does a fart contribute to global warming' while it queries the answer with a water-chugging omnicomputer' what a product pitch
not having a traditional screen means the battery life must be good, right?
(it makes the game gear look ridiculously long lasting by comparison)
the AI might hallucinate things, but at least it might work in some scenarios traditional voice assistants might not, right?
(for as bad as siri can be, i have never heard of the request "give me directions to the empire state building" resulting in "you can ask siri about directions to the empire state building")
but it must be good for replacing traditional smart phone stuff, right?
(no contact sync means i hope you like typing phone numbers in on a gesture based keyboard, which is a great idea as seen on the xbox kinect)
about the only thing it hasn't done so far is physically hurt people (aside from being uncomfortable under seatbelts), and give it a few weeks and i'm sure that might happen
and so the big question is whether bigger companies will use it as an excuse to distance themselves from the AI hype cycle... or if they go even more all-in
