I have one of these in my bag right now, never turned on though. I understand it's some custom Android hardware and synthesizes a bunch of API-based NN service providers, and doesn't
do anything on device, but I'm not too mad at that -- for this price point this year, it was always only going to be something like that. I
am interested in the ongoing form factor experimentation happening, and want to encourage startups to think differently about form factors, so I'm happy to buy stuff that doesn't quite hit the mark, as long as it's got an interesting idea.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to giving it a try, and I'll almost certainly never use it once I've kind of pawed through it and seen what seems good and what seems bad. Similar for that humane pin which I think I paid for but never even received.
If you read a lot of sci-fi, authors have put an immense amount of time into thinking about what UI looks like as we have supercompute/AI access more broadly, and I think it's clear that a phone isn't the final state for these interactions. What's less clear to me is what sort of compelling mid-way points there are between what we have now and ubiquitous environment-aware AGI (e.g. Minds from Iain Banks). It's one reason I thought humane's projector was really interesting; we do a lot of visual interaction in daily life, so an audio-only earbud isn't likely to be the be-all/end-all.
Anyway, hardware startup guys, please make more of these, and figure out what's going to be compelling when we've scaled up bandwidth, scaled down latency and scaled up local compute. I'm looking forward to buying it.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to giving it a try, and I'll almost certainly never use it once I've kind of pawed through it and seen what seems good and what seems bad. Similar for that humane pin which I think I paid for but never even received.
If you read a lot of sci-fi, authors have put an immense amount of time into thinking about what UI looks like as we have supercompute/AI access more broadly, and I think it's clear that a phone isn't the final state for these interactions. What's less clear to me is what sort of compelling mid-way points there are between what we have now and ubiquitous environment-aware AGI (e.g. Minds from Iain Banks). It's one reason I thought humane's projector was really interesting; we do a lot of visual interaction in daily life, so an audio-only earbud isn't likely to be the be-all/end-all.
Anyway, hardware startup guys, please make more of these, and figure out what's going to be compelling when we've scaled up bandwidth, scaled down latency and scaled up local compute. I'm looking forward to buying it.