Why I’m Not Getting a Humane AI Pin

Pressing to active the Humane AI Pin

I should be all about
the new Humane AI
pin. But I’m not, and I think it’s worth thinking through why that is.

First, it’s a pin you wear all day, activate with your finger, and then give
commands like you would give your OS or an assistant. Like reading and
sending texts, getting the latest news, looking up information, etc.

It’s honestly really cool.

So why don’t I like it?

Thinking about it for a while this last week I realized it’s because
it confuses multiple different problems.

1. Problem 1: We should be able to ask for things instead of having
   to do them ourselves.

2. Problem 2: We shouldn’t have to take our phones out of our
   pockets to do cool phone stuff like display things.

3. Problem 3: We shouldn’t have to remember things. AI should just
   capture everything that happens around us and create summaries and be
   able to recall things if we need them.

The Humane AI pin seems to solve Problem 2, but I don’t have Problem 2. I
have Problem 1 and Problem 3.

Problem 1 is being addressed by AI being added to our operating systems,
like the fact that
Apple is currently working to build GenAI into everything.

The pitch for Rewind

Problem 3 is being addressed by
awesome companies like Rewind, which basically record everything and create searchable knowledge that
you can interact with via AI.

Also very cool. Not sure I trust the security enough to record my screen
24/7, but it’s cool.

But replacing my phone? When I know this type of AI is being built into iOS
and macOS very soon?

I am afraid products in the Problem 2 space are going to end up being fads.
Doesn’t mean they’re not super innovative and awesome.

I just think more people have problems 1 and 3 than problem 2.

NOTES

1. The Tab
   device also looks super interesting, with a similar approach to
   Rewind.