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Humane AI Pin is a disaster: Founders already want to sell the company (arstechnica.com)

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Despite seemingly having nothing else in the pipeline and the AI Pin being dead on arrival, Bloomberg reports the company is "seeking a price of between $750 million and $1 billion in a sale."

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[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Surprised Pikachu

[+] fubarx@lemmy.ml -28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's cool tech that is ahead of its time. 5-10 years from now, a big tech company will make something like this and everyone will cry Huzzah!

Magic Leap went the same route.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Leap

Judging by the downvotes, I didn't state my point well enough. Magic Leap took a LOT of money, got a lot of hype, and nearly went out of business multiple times.

But they were also the first ones to demonstrate and kick off overlaying data on top of real world, what we now call Augmented Reality. Their implementation was clunky and the device was expensive, but it showed people a glimpse of what was possible in a head-mounted, immersive form factor. 10 years later, Apple released the Vision Pro which used different tech, but did pretty much what ML1 was trying to do.

I think the Humane AI pin tried some interesting concepts, but is heading in the same direction. The idea of a small, wearable, AI device is interesting. Ten years from now, when you can run it all on-device and have a hands-free, GPT-8 level conversation with it with no cloud connection may well be a yawn.

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

I understand your point but there is a huge difference between the 2 products.

Right now, we are basically asking AI pin companies "Why can't this be an app?" And they are giving us vague dodgy corporate answers. Magic leap is a fundamentally different product from a standard smartphone. It failed because the hardware wasn't there yet even though there was a lot of interest.

In 2023, even with a company like Apple, Apple Vision is seeing slow adoption rates of the product. Why? Bulky + power hungry + expensive, similar issues from back then, albeit to a lesser degree. Till the technology becomes accessible, it will remain as a niche. It has the potential to change a lot of things in healthcare and manufacturing but it still has a long way to go.

The metaverse is also suffering from a similar problem. What can the metaverse do that 2nd Life/Minecraft can't do? It needs be better than the existing solutions while still having a low barrier to entry price-wise. Do note I'm completely skipping the fact that it's being heavily pushed by a privacy nightmare of a company.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It would be pretty useful to have one of those com badges from Star Trek. That seems to be the form factor.

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