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So this is scam right? Overpromise on a product that doesn't work then sell the company for some huge price because it's cutting edge technology? Because it feels like a scam.

alright guys I'll take one for the team and buy the company

This is the same as Ben Shapiro telling people to sell their houses once Florida goes under water from a climate crisis. To who? Neptune?

Rabbit R1 will soon to follow

Remember when nerds used to be smarter than us? That was awesome.

Do they accept NFTs?

This is hilarious, scrambling to get a golden parachute and live off some trust fund from the sale. The sad part is that they will probably get that.

Their adoption plan was just wrong. Few people want to give up their phones, and the general public has had enough of a learning curve struggle with mobile phones. The device didn't make sense, at least not in its current state.

The AI bubble will burst soon, and when it does, real innovation will happen.

„bethany bongiorno“ is the most made-up sounding name I‘ve ever heard

Who would have guess that another overpriced solution to a non existent problem that no one wants would have been a commercial failure ....

We are in a capitalist dystopia. We could be using AI to predict energy usage and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, or help in discovering new protein folds ... but no ... Timmy wants to look like a cool futuristic dude and he's willing to pay $600 to look cooler than his peers

$750m? That company worth about three fiddy.

I could see it being useful if it was an accessory to your phone. Not having to dig my phone out of my pocket to take a picture of something to look it up, or having a push-to-talk badge or pendant would make it more convenient, especially for folks like me who don't wear watches. And with Bluetooth it would have decent battery life.

But the damn thing can't even set a timer.

There are already copycat products out and I don't feel sympathy for any of them.

I want to say up front that, I don't feel any sympathy for the company, nor do I have any love for the ewaste they created.

That being said, it's a decent idea, and I would have liked to see where it went. Their implementation was completely wrong on do many points, but it was still a half decent idea. Basically having what Google assistant should have been, pinned to your chest like a comm badge sounds pretty cool. The laser projector for your hand was interesting, but very hokey, the data communication was poorly thought out, far too slow to be useful, the design wasn't the worst, but still not great. The battery life was questionable at best....

But the concept of what it was supposed to be able to do, was not terrible. Possibly the last terrible part of the product.

Personally, I want a personal assistant. Since I'm not rich, I can't exactly hire one. Having an AI assistant, that you talk to through a communications badge seems like a decent idea. I'd want it to basically run from my phone, mostly local to my phone, so my data isn't pushed everywhere, but the tech isn't quite there yet. Not enough TOPS, not enough memory, not enough storage for all the models; and certainly not enough battery to power AI running on your phone.

I can see what they were going for but they fell so far short of the goal that it's not really visible in what was delivered.

I imagine the pitch meeting about this being something along the lines of a guy rushing in after watching Star Trek discovery, when they got the holographic comm badges, and going, I want to make that! With the Zora AI and everything! And then people jumping on the bandwagon, knowing full well that they're not even going to come close.

I hope everyone that works there gets new jobs in sectors that aren't using AI as a parlor trick or buzzword to try to move units.

Good bye, company I don't care enough to remember the name of. We hardly knew you, and even that was probably too much interaction.

When you find out you were only good because you drank the trillion dollar brand Kool-Aid.

Here is female founder's LinkedIn background image, web search result top 20, with that thing on.

https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D5616AQEGTRY3gObKdg/profile-displaybackgroundimage-shrink_200_800/0/1700176960650?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=GoILNFlkyeka_159L39sV2nlT57Phcz9ngiMCGm6eQ8

Demographic is..I mean was?

Here is an awkward photo of both Founders: https://images.fastcompany.net/image/upload/w_596,c_limit,q_auto:best,f_auto/wp-cms/uploads/2020/09/i-Bethany-and-Imran.jpg

who could have forseen that "the app, as a hardware device" wouldnt sell well.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Despite seemingly having nothing else in the pipeline and the AI Pin being dead on arrival, Bloomberg reports the company is "seeking a price of between $750 million and $1 billion in a sale."

Humane was founded by two ex-Apple employees, Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, in 2018 and has raised $230 million from some big-name investors like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

The Humane AI Pin immediately seemed like an idea that only made sense in a VC pitch room.

The device is a wearable voice command box and camera that you magnetically clip onto a shirt, sort of like a Star Trek communicator.

The device comes in two halves, with a front processing unit and a back battery, and the side clipped together magnetically with your shirt in the middle.

Don't be surprised if history places Humane on the list of "biggest tech startup flops ever" alongside the likes of Juicero and Ouya.

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