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What I don't understand is, this device has been in development since 2018. Obviously the founders didn't intend it to be a ChatGPT wrapper many years before Ch
by paxys 3y ago
What I don't understand is, this device has been in development since 2018. Obviously the founders didn't intend it to be a ChatGPT wrapper many years before ChatGPT existed. So what was the original vision, and what made them do a half-assed last minute pivot and redo the whole thing right before launch?
- metalrain 3y agoMaybe to be accessory to your phone, reduce screentime etc.
- danpalmer 3y agoI don't get the screentime argument. The way to reduce screentime is to move people off Instagram/TikTok to platforms that aren't optimising for engagement as much, not to make a fancy mini phone for booking Ubers and checking when my flights are, which constitutes almost no phone usage at scale.
- peanuty1 3y agoI don't think the Humane Pin is capable of booking an Uber or placing an order on DoorDash or Amazon.
- danpalmer 3y agoNo and that just reinforces the point. The Humane Pin is solving the utility part of what we use our phones for, but our phones have nailed this, with app stores, a screen, and highly optimised booking/checkout flows. The Humane Pin is aiming at this market, but with far less utility, ability, stability. They say they want to minimise the time we spend on our phones, but I don't regret the 7 seconds it takes to google an actor in the show I'm watching, or the 20 seconds it takes to book an Uber. I regret the 15 minutes I spend scrolling reddit on the toilet, or the hour I spend watching YouTube before bed. That's not the market they're taking aim at.
- dragonwriter 3y agoVoice assistants long predate ChatGPT, so it was probably designed to use (possibly a custom, in-house) one of those, but then GPT-4 (and probably 3.5 below it) probably blew away whatever they were working on, and they switched.