'Humane' Demos New Features on Its Ai Pin - Which Starts Arriving April 11 (mashable.com) 27
Indian Express calls it "the ultimate smartphone killer". (Coming soon, its laser-on-your-palm feature will display stock prices, sports scores, and flight statuses.)
Humane's Ai Pin can even translate what you say, repeating it out loud in another language (with 50 different languages supported). And it can read you summaries of what's on your favorite web sites, so "You can just surf the web with your voice," according to a new video released this week.
The video also shows it answering specific questions like "What's that song by 21 Savage with the violin intro?" (And later, while the song is playing, answering more questions like "This was sampled from another song. What song was that?") But then co-founder Imran Chaudhri — an iPhone designer and one of several former Apple employees at Humane — demonstrated a "Vision" feature that's coming soon. Holding a Sony Walkman he asks the Pin to "Look at this and tell me when it first came out" — and the Pin obliges. ("The Sony Walkman WM-F73 was released in 1986...") In another demo it correctly supplied the designer of an Air Jordan basketball shoe.
They're also working on integrating this into a Nutrition Tracking application. (A demonstrator held a doughnut and asked the Pin to identify how much sugar was in it.) If you tell the Pin that you've eaten the doughnut, it can then calculate your intake of carbs, protein, and fats.
And in the video the Pin responded within seconds to the command "Make a spreadsheet about top consumer tech reviewers on YouTube [with] real names, subscriber counts, and URLs." It performed the research and created the spreadsheet, which appears on the demonstrator's laptop, apparently logged in to Humane's cloud-based user platform.
In the video Humane's co-founder stresses that its Ai Pin does all this without downloading applications, "which allows me to stay present in the moment and flow." But while it can also make phone calls and sends text messages, Imran Chaudhri adds that "Ai Pin is a completely new form factor for compute. It's never been about replacing. It's always been about creating new ways to interact with what you need. So instead of having to sit down to use a computer, or reaching in to your pocket and pulling out your phone and navigating apps, Ai Pin allows you to simply act on something the moment you think about it — letting AI do all the work for you."
Or, as they say later "This is about technology adapting and reacting to you. Not you having to adapt to it."
There's also talk about their "AI OS" — named Cosmos — with the Pin described as "our first entry point" into that operating system, with other devices planned to support it in the future. (Mashable's reporter notes that Humane's Ai Pin is backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and writes "I was impressed with how well it worked.") The video even ends with an update for SDK developers. In the second half of 2024, "you're going to be able to connect your services to the Ai Pin using REST APIs and OAuth." Phase two will let developers run their code directly on Humane's cloud platform — while Phase three will see developers codes on Ai Pin devices, "to get access to the mic, the camera, the sensors, and the laser. We are so excited to see what you're gonna build."
Humane says its Ai Pin will start shipping at the end of March, with priority orders arriving starting on April 11th.
Humane's Ai Pin can even translate what you say, repeating it out loud in another language (with 50 different languages supported). And it can read you summaries of what's on your favorite web sites, so "You can just surf the web with your voice," according to a new video released this week.
The video also shows it answering specific questions like "What's that song by 21 Savage with the violin intro?" (And later, while the song is playing, answering more questions like "This was sampled from another song. What song was that?") But then co-founder Imran Chaudhri — an iPhone designer and one of several former Apple employees at Humane — demonstrated a "Vision" feature that's coming soon. Holding a Sony Walkman he asks the Pin to "Look at this and tell me when it first came out" — and the Pin obliges. ("The Sony Walkman WM-F73 was released in 1986...") In another demo it correctly supplied the designer of an Air Jordan basketball shoe.
They're also working on integrating this into a Nutrition Tracking application. (A demonstrator held a doughnut and asked the Pin to identify how much sugar was in it.) If you tell the Pin that you've eaten the doughnut, it can then calculate your intake of carbs, protein, and fats.
And in the video the Pin responded within seconds to the command "Make a spreadsheet about top consumer tech reviewers on YouTube [with] real names, subscriber counts, and URLs." It performed the research and created the spreadsheet, which appears on the demonstrator's laptop, apparently logged in to Humane's cloud-based user platform.
In the video Humane's co-founder stresses that its Ai Pin does all this without downloading applications, "which allows me to stay present in the moment and flow." But while it can also make phone calls and sends text messages, Imran Chaudhri adds that "Ai Pin is a completely new form factor for compute. It's never been about replacing. It's always been about creating new ways to interact with what you need. So instead of having to sit down to use a computer, or reaching in to your pocket and pulling out your phone and navigating apps, Ai Pin allows you to simply act on something the moment you think about it — letting AI do all the work for you."
Or, as they say later "This is about technology adapting and reacting to you. Not you having to adapt to it."
There's also talk about their "AI OS" — named Cosmos — with the Pin described as "our first entry point" into that operating system, with other devices planned to support it in the future. (Mashable's reporter notes that Humane's Ai Pin is backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and writes "I was impressed with how well it worked.") The video even ends with an update for SDK developers. In the second half of 2024, "you're going to be able to connect your services to the Ai Pin using REST APIs and OAuth." Phase two will let developers run their code directly on Humane's cloud platform — while Phase three will see developers codes on Ai Pin devices, "to get access to the mic, the camera, the sensors, and the laser. We are so excited to see what you're gonna build."
Humane says its Ai Pin will start shipping at the end of March, with priority orders arriving starting on April 11th.
Hell no. (Score:5, Insightful)
There's no way in hell I'm paying $699 for a bluetooth speaker.
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
my first thought, "home assistant" toy with a battery
of which I keep hearing stories of people "not really using them for much but playing music anymore", and your chunky badge will get a googleglass-like reception if you make it do that in public
Re: (Score:3)
It also doesn't help that they come off as pompous and taking themselves way too seriously in their videos. That's my perception anyway.
Re: (Score:2)
my first thought, "home assistant" toy with a battery
of which I keep hearing stories of people "not really using them for much but playing music anymore", and your chunky badge will get a googleglass-like reception if you make it do that in public
Typically, such home entertainment devices are a little thicker and they aren't very good for playing music though they do usually vibrate.
Re: (Score:2)
Depends. I had the google one and it was ... meh. A friend had the Apple one and it was *weirdly* good. Maybe not quite as good as my $1K monitor speakers in my studio, but you dont buy a home assistant for $1k monitor speaker soud, you buy $1K monitor speakers.
Re:Hell no. (Score:4, Informative)
Plus $24 per month for the service subscription. It includes it's own number with unlimited talk, text, and data. So basically, you're buying another phone ..as an AI assistant without a display.(for now). https://humane.com/subscriptio... [humane.com]
i am not sure why this could not have been a phone accessory instead of a more expensive stand-alone device.
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Having seen how incapable the current hype "AI" is (except as somewhat better search, but with hallucinations), I will not pay anything for access to it.
I've heard that one before (Score:4, Insightful)
Remember when every slab phone was an "iPhone killer" because it had more features than the original iPhone? Well, now we've come full circle where something is a "smartphone killer" and you can't even use the damn thing to activate an EV charging station.
Is this an ad? (Score:1)
It feels like an ad.
(for a gimmick)
Fact (Score:2, Troll)
If there were such a thing as AI, every adult would be working in their dream job by 9AM Eastern Time Monday.
I like their emphasis (Score:3)
On making things that are useful and readable.
Because such concepts have been cruely absent from our computers for generations.
If they do succeed, maybe this will instill in the standard consumer that computing can be made to actually make your work easier instead of being a clusterfuck like, say, Windows.
And if the consumer realizes that, there may be in the future a market for my standard (not LLM/NN) AI for OS to sell to.
Too early (Score:5, Insightful)
Stunning (Score:3, Funny)
Other market? (Score:2)
Re: (Score:3)
I don't know how much "helping" tools like this give in the long run. I mean it's a voice-activated search that can look up trivia. It reads stuff and summarizes it so you don't have to exercise your own brain cells. It tells you if food is healthy or not, so you don't have to think about it.
The only thing that is actually helpful is the translation. Even that, though, while helpful, basically removes any responsibility for the individual to actually have to put forth any effort to try and learn a differen
Re: Other market? (Score:2)
Does it have blue text bubbles? (Score:1)
Because everyone knows you need blue text bubbles or the kids won't buy it.
These people should sue Apple for using blue bubbles and then call the DoJ.
More pre-order trash (Score:1)
Better get IN on that new and revolutionary AI-powered tech fast! Super easy to do anything* you want with it!
And this is? (Score:3)
it is becoming more and more common to provide as little, or even negative, information. Not only here, but elsewhere.
At no time in that entire self-agrandizing hype talk was it explained what Ai Pin was or is. Nowhere. Not even a suggestion what it might be other than something you talk to. The first paragraph could lead one to believe it's something embedded in the palm of your hand, but no information was forthcoming to clarify if this was the case.
If I'm supposed to be interested in something it might be nice if I knew what it was considering the article is supposed to provide such information.
Hans Kristian Graebener = StoneToss
Hi, I'm your Friend (Score:3)
afaict, this won't work. I haven't used MS, Apple, or commercial sw for 20 years now, but chumps around me who do, claim to be very annoyed at how MS is bleeping and otherwise harrassing them to interact with their computers since last night's software "upgrade"... I can hear the usual suspects, around here, arguing strongly that this will be good for you/us. No it won't. Now get out of my jello tree.
ironic that (I don't know if which recent post here) expounds that the internet has made us all "lonelier"
The race to the complete personal isolation in real life is as fast as the race to complete subjugation by automation, while appearing to offer greater autonomy.
Put your "pin" down. Take up a hobby. I recommend music.
This will fail (Score:3)
The device is just a bad design. I predict it'll follow the same trajectory as Google Glass - some technophiles and wannabe-trendsetters will get them, there will be a lot of negative press because there's no private mode on the things and they assume everyone around you wants to know what you're doing with your tech.
I still maintain that when a discrete and stylish HUD/earbud combo is available to link to your smartphone, that'll be the one that knocks it out of the park. All you really need is your smartphone screen floating in front of your face and some audio, and maybe a smart watch whose face can be used as a touch pad. If you want a keyboard, it's time to pull out the full phone.
phone can do the same (Score:2)
If it works. We had these demos on kickstarters a decade ago.
A phone can be the same size too. What one needs to ask why is it a device.
Vaporware company demos vaporware... (Score:2)
Or at least something that is massively overhyped and will massively underdeliver.
Oh, and it also is massively overpriced, explaining the approach and why the vendor does it.
When will AI actually be intelligent? (Score:2)