Star Trek communicator pin is finally here
I donāt know if it can replace the phone entirely, especially as my phone is more of a mini TV, but if it catches on with young people who prefer hands free tech, it may well be the next big thing to buy.
Popped up on my insta!
I wouldnāt be surprised if this is vapourware. Some of the claims seem a bit suspect. Such as
Ai Pinās speaker system uses a Head Related Transfer Function (HRTF) to create a personally optimized bubble of sound, at a fixed distance, regardless of how soft or loud.
I canāt see that anything that small and light could do that, or indeed some of the other claims as well.
Paraphrased from a recent NYT article:
Sam Altman, OpenAIās chief executive, said in an interview that he expected A.I. to be āa huge partā of how we interact with computers. He has invested in Humane as well as another A.I. company, Rewind AI, that plans to make a necklace that will record what people say and hear. Heās also discussed teaming up with Jony Ive, Appleās former chief designer, to create an A.I. gadget with a similar ambition to Humane.
Humane has the advantage of being the first of those A.I.-focused devices to become available, but Mr. Altman said in an interview that was no guarantee of success. āThat will be up to customers to decide,ā he said. āMaybe itās a bridge too far,ā he said, āor maybe people are like, āThis is much better than my phone.āā Plenty of technology that looked like a sure bet ends up selling for 90 percent off at Best Buy, he added.
Humaneās goal was to replicate the usefulness of the iPhone without any of the components that make us all addicted ā the dopamine hit of dragging to refresh a Facebook feed or swiping to see a new TikTok video. They experimented in secret with hardware components and built a virtual assistant, like Siri or Alexa, working with customized language models based, in part, on OpenAIās offerings.
The deviceās most sci-fi element ā the laser that projects a text menu onto a hand ā started inside a box the size of a matchbook. It took three years to miniaturize it to be smaller than the size of a golf tee.
The device is arriving at a time when excitement and skepticism for A.I. hit new highs each week. Industry researchers are warning of the technologyās existential risk and regulators are eager to crack down on it.
Yet investors are eagerly pouring cash into A.I. start-ups. Before Humane even released a product, its backers had valued it at $850 million.
The full article here:
Iām not at all convinced. They use āAIā generously, which is a buzzword for all those U.S investors that donāt want to miss the boat, and $850 million is peanuts in real terms.
This sort of thing floats and then sinks every day in the U.S. Look up Theranos for an idea of how easy it is to fool people.
Not interested unless it can transport people elswhere 
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The sort of thing that makes me pleased that, at 80, I am nearer the exit than the entry. 
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