It's funny that the company was founded 6+ years ago and this product has been in development at least since that time, but all of a sudden it's all about AI? We really going to pretend all these features weren't shoveled in in the last 3 months by buying a ChatGPT API token?
Recognizing the food you are holding and coming up with a calorie count was the only part of the demo I found genuinely cool, but I also know that AI tech isn't far enough along to get anywhere close to accurate results right now in the real world.
Something like AI Pin might be ubiquitous like the smartphone at some point in the future, but right now isn't the time for it, and Humane may or may not be the company to eventually crack the code.
(i'm an investor in the company, and invested over 3 years ago.)
this product has always been about AI—what they launched is almost exactly what they pitched me. their expectation of where the world going ended up being prescient.
Call them tomorrow and ask them to fire whoever caused the AI to hallucinate on their tech demo and give a wholly incorrect answer to the question of "where is the next eclipse". Get them to fire whoever didn't check that video for accuracy while you're at it.
As a piece of computing hardware, even with the most recent Snapdragon, it seems likely that it will have to transfer back and forth to the cloud for it's AI on a continual basis which will add loads of annoying latency.
The food thing is cool for that use case because calorie counting via an app is tedious. But holding up a dragon fruit and asking "can I eat this?" is beyond ridiculous.
Recognizing the food you are holding and coming up with a calorie count was the only part of the demo I found genuinely cool, but I also know that AI tech isn't far enough along to get anywhere close to accurate results right now in the real world.
Something like AI Pin might be ubiquitous like the smartphone at some point in the future, but right now isn't the time for it, and Humane may or may not be the company to eventually crack the code.