After months of hype, Humane, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company, on Thursday launched its first product: the AI Pin, a digital personal assistant housed in a tiny, square-shaped piece of hardware.
It doesn’t look like it is trying to work with a smart phone but replace it. To me this is a smart phone accessory at best. I don’t want a phone plan for it, I want to connect it to my iPhone and use it as a tool to lessen the amount I need to pull out my phone.
Thing is, you don’t need this thing at all if you have a phone. Humane should have just made an app which you can chat with. We wouldn’t need that either, if Siri didn’t suck. Maybe the next version will take some cues from this; there are some decent ideas here.
It doesn’t look like it is trying to work with a smart phone but replace it. To me this is a smart phone accessory at best. I don’t want a phone plan for it, I want to connect it to my iPhone and use it as a tool to lessen the amount I need to pull out my phone.
Then the whole thing can just be an app. Open AI will probably release one on the app store and this thing is totally squeezed out.
Thing is, you don’t need this thing at all if you have a phone. Humane should have just made an app which you can chat with. We wouldn’t need that either, if Siri didn’t suck. Maybe the next version will take some cues from this; there are some decent ideas here.