Friday, November 24, 2023

The best (and worst) thing about Humane’s AI Pin is its lack of apps

Humane's wearable imagines a world where artificial intelligence connects you to the services and experiences you need, not apps.

A tiny smartphone-esque device you navigate with your voice and a projected interface on your hand isn’t in fact the biggest idea Humane is introducing with the Ai Pin. It’s a future without apps.

The Ai Pin, as a device primarily built around interacting with artificial intelligence, doesn’t use discrete applications at all. It instead directs spoken requests through an AI model or third-party service that has what you need via something Humane calls the “Ai Bus.”

I think it’s easy to agree that the multitude of attention-grabbing, time-wasting, mood-ruining apps we have on our phones is a cause for concern, but ditching them for something entirely hands-off? That introduces other kinds of problems that could make justifying the already niche Ai Pin even harder. READ MORE FROM INVERSE

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