Why the Ai Pin fell flat
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
A new wearable from tech startup Humane promises to bring an AI assistant to your lapel. It attaches to your jacket, sweater or shirt and operates with voice commands or a digital interface laser projected onto the palm of your hand. It sounds like the stuff of a sci-fi novel, but the reviews so far are not good. The panning of the Ai Pin comes after five years in development, $240 million in funding and partnerships struck with the likes of OpenAI, Microsoft and Salesforce. So, what went wrong? Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino asked Victoria Song, senior reviewer at The Verge, what this device is supposed to be for.
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| 0:00.0 | Another device headed for the wearable graveyard from American public media. |
| 0:07.0 | This is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carino. A new wearable from tech startup humane promises to bring an AI assistant. The AI |
| 0:24.0 | assistant |
| 0:25.0 | assistant to your lapel. |
| 0:26.0 | The AI PIN starts at 700 bucks, |
| 0:30.0 | plus a monthly data plan. |
| 0:32.0 | It attaches to your shirt and operates with voice commands |
| 0:35.2 | or a digital interface projected onto the palm of your hand. |
| 0:39.8 | But the reviews are not good. |
| 0:43.1 | This thing is bad at almost everything it does |
| 0:49.5 | basically all the time. |
| 0:50.6 | Where do I even start? |
| 0:51.7 | It is futuristic, for sure, if the future sucked. |
| 0:56.0 | The pin is not worth the money. Not yet and probably not anytime soon. |
| 1:00.8 | Yikes, Those were reviews by |
| 1:02.6 | Youtuber Marquez Brownley, Engadgets Cheryl and |
| 1:06.7 | David Pierce at The Verge. The panning of the pin comes after five years in |
| 1:11.8 | development, 240 million million in funding, and partnerships with the |
| 1:17.1 | likes of Open AI, Microsoft, and Salesforce. |
| 1:21.0 | So what went wrong? |
| 1:22.2 | I asked Victoria's song, senior reviewer at the VIRD. So what was |
| 1:25.0 | this device was supposed to be for? |
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