Okay, this is schadenfreude, as I take no enjoyment in this, I was always somewhat curious about it, regardless of the bad reviews it received; I was genuinely intrigued and was silently rooting for it. I have a history of rooting for those underdogs (Palm/webOS, Nexus Player, Google+, Moto Mods, Google Reader, Stadia, etc...).
Fremdschämen, as I learned from Dustin a while back, might be more apropos here.
The Humane AI pin is dead. What I thought might be our official precursor to the Star Trek communicator pins, has had a rough road. Lofty goals, poor performance and reviews ... is now seeing the end of the tunnel as it has been now sold to HP for $116million (USD).
Devices will no longer connect to any cloud network as of February 28th. It apparently could still do some offline tasks (like read out the battery... woooppeee) after.
My hope is that some people out there are willing to take it apart and give it some sort of homebrew life to it - but it may be tricky as HP's purchase is for the CosmOS platform and who knows what kinds of tight reins they may wield. But where there's a will, there's a way.
Some AI to be able to make context of the world around it and give us the right info when we need it, the neat concept of the hand gestures. It looked like a rough start, but I LOVE those starts. I sorta can see where it wants to go and I'm there for the ride.
Sigh.
What did you think of the pin?
https://www.theverge.com/news/614883/humane-ai-hp-acquisition-pin-shutdown
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