6mo ago

Humane slashes the price of its AI Pin after weak sales

www.theverge.com

They can't sell the $699 AI party trick that requires a $24 subscription so they slashed the price to $499. Unfortunately it's still $500 too expensive for what's worth.

Maybe at $10 someone could buy it as a Halloween costume prop and even pay a whole month of subscription just to show off the novelty

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At what price point would this device be useful? Seems like the sort of device that was made to allow the company to be bought by Google/Microsoft/Meta.
- At what price point would this device be useful?
  given that it's horribly bad at what it claims to do and was a fire risk? not even a zero point.
  
  I’d need to be paid a non negligible amount to try and wring some speck of usefulness out of this thing.
- It'll probably be a brick in a few months, when the company goes bankrupt and the servers it relies on get shut down. So even getting it for free would be too expensive.

Bit late, isn't it? I had already forgotten all about it and I don't think I'm the only one.

- If it was free and I just had to pay the subscription I'd think "Can't my phone already do all this?"
  
  You phone doesn't have the low-res laser projector gimmick that is invisible in daylight, runs extremely hot and drains the battery in one hour

Maybe if they make a watch with a camera cover and a laser that draws a little box around what it can see and it all runs locally, then I might be interested.
Mainly to identify plants and mushrooms.
Not a fan of the idea of everyone pointing AI powered cameras at me all the time, like with this weird pin or smart glasses.
Such products should have a legally mandated camera cover, microphone shutoff and a REALLY OBVIOUS tell to everyone around you if you are using the camera or mic.
Bonus points if it screams a really loud "PERVERT" alarm if you're doing something creepy.
If only that was true for smartphones too....
- Mainly to identify plants and mushrooms.
  Considering modern-day "AI" track records at this, the only thing I'd trust a device like that to do is massively increase poisoning deaths.
  
  "But my phone said it would be OK" is a lousy epitaph!

This is still a thing?
- It’s probably going to be a rare collectible in about 50 years. Right now, it’s a high risk investment.

- what

I've never heard of this thing, is it supposed to do what the analyze this picture or ID the song playing features of my phone already could do, or is there something novel I'm missing?
- The sell is a screenless phone with an AI assistant
  
  So pretty much one of those smart speaker things with a pin on it, for hundreds of $$$ and a subscription to boot? What a great idea...

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