First Human AI Pin

First Human AI Pin As previously disclosed, the $699 wearable consists of a square gadget and a battery pack that adheres to surfaces or clothing via magnetic means. A Humane membership costs $24 per month and includes a phone number and data service on T-Mobile’s network in addition to that cost. Preorders for the gadget go live on November 16th, the business informed Wired, and shipment will begin in early 2024.

The AI Pin is controlled by gestures, voice control, a camera, and a tiny built-in projector. It runs on a Snapdragon CPU, though it’s unclear which one. The “battery booster” adds 20 grams to the roughly 34 grams that the pin weighs by itself. With a software upgrade, the integrated camera can record video in addition to taking 13-megapixel pictures.

It’s not intended to be constantly recording, and it’s not even listening for a wake word, in contrast to a gadget like the Rewind Pendant. To let you and presumably everyone else know that it is gathering data, the Pin’s “Trust Light” blinks when you manually activate the gadget by tapping and dragging on the touchpad.

The Pin’s main responsibility is to establish connections with AI models using a program called AI Mic. Although earlier reports claimed that the Pin was largely powered by GPT-4, Humane claims that ChatGPT access is really one of the device’s key capabilities. The press announcement from Humane references both Microsoft and OpenAI. Instead of requiring you to download and install programs, its operating system, Cosmos, is made to automatically direct your requests to the appropriate tools.

With the Pin, Humane is attempting to completely remove all of your device’s UI clutter. It is designed to be as simple as talking to or touching the Pin, telling it what you want to do or know, and it will take care of the rest. There won’t be a homescreen or several settings and accounts to handle. In the past year, a straightforward text command to a chatbot has made a great deal of capability available; Humane is attempting to create a device in the same spirit.

So, the real question is: What can this machine really do? Humane’s announcement today highlights most of the features co-founder Imran Chaudhri demonstrated at TED earlier this year, including voice-based calling and messaging, a “catch me up” feature that summarizes your email inbox, the ability to hold food up to the camera to get nutritional information, and real-time translation. Beyond that, though, it appears that the device’s main function is to function as a wearable search engine powered by LLM. However, the business did inform Wired that it hopes to add shopping and navigation features, as well as provide developers with the means to create custom tools.

Humane appears to regard the AI Pin as the start of a bigger project, which is definitely true: it will improve as the underlying models improve, and it looks like the entire tech sector is hard at work coming up with new applications for AI. Humane may be hoping that its product develops in a similar manner to how smartphones did: greater technology gradually enhances the user experience, but the true innovation is in the things that can be done with the gadget. Although there is still more to be done in that regard, Humane seems prepared to get going.