It’s a gadget designed for interacting with large language models, not apps, and for talking instead of typing. But it’s not yet entirely clear what you’re supposed to use it for.
Source: Humane officially launches the AI Pin, its OpenAI-powered wearable – The Verge
I’m not so worried that this is a new kind of device, trying new forms of interaction and design. And kudos for being gutsy to use LLM so early in the evolution of the tools.
But already folks are pointing out LLM errors in the demo. And I’d like to point out in the launch video, Bethany, Humane’s woman co-founder, never speaks with the device [my experience with Siri and Amazon Echo showed that women have a heard time being understood by voice input tools, let alone those in the over-55 bracket]. And do we really want some device blaring out results in public, results that might be quite personal, instead of being respectfully silent and replying thru a headset?
Again, I welcome new devices that try new things and attempt to change our expectations of what our tools should do and how we should interact with them.
And I totally agree that we’ll really only see how useful this is after it’s out in the wild and being used.
But, will it go the way of smartwatches (well-received for many reasons) or the way of smartglasses (well-received in particular use cases, but by no means a consumer device)?
What do you think?
Ha, right after I wrote this I found this article (via Hackaday): The Humane AI Pin is a bizarre cross between Google Glass and a pager
Lots of good points, some echoing and elaborating on the same things I mention. Go read it.
