Humane’s Ai Pin, a device that was expected to revolutionize the consumer tech industry, may not be the game-changer it was hyped up to be, said Bloomberg columnist Mark Gurman.
Not A Replacement: Testing of the the Humane Ai Pin revealed that “smartphones aren't going anywhere,” said Gurman in the latest installment of his “Power On” newsletter.
“Humane hasn't been shy about its ambitions: It wants to kill the smartphone — or at least reduce the need for one,” he added.
The brainchild of former Apple Inc. managers, the Ai Pin, priced at $700, was designed to be a smartphone alternative, the columnist said.
During testing, the device’s “AI technology itself works well — on par with the other generative AI systems on the market,” Gurman said. He noted that the Ai Pin knew the context needed to answer questions and its Vision feature could look at an object in a room and describe it aloud.
But the device was slow to respond or failed ...