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All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨schizoidman@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.engadget.com/ai/all-of-humanes-ai-pins-will-stop-working-in-10-days-225643798.html?src=rss

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  • FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh man, they are gonna ruin like 5 people’s day with this.

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    • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is it that many?

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      • JayGray91@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        At least as many as techtubers influencers received them. So 1 too many of this grift.

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  • paequ2@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    HP, which is buying the company’s intellectual property for $116 million… Humane was seeking a $1 billion buyout

    🤣 🤣 🤣

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    • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      HP. Now there’s a company with an eye for the future! 🤭

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      • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ntPxdWAWq8

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      • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m betting on IBM!

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    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That still seems like a wildly high buyout.

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    • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even 116 mil is too much for this trash product.

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    • ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If HP does anything with that IP they will 110% find a way to make it even worse.

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    • DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ‘I’ll give you tree-fiddy’

      -HP, probably

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    [The Humane AI team will form an] AI innovation lab focused on building an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s products and services for the future of work

    Hope they like figuring out how to sell printer ink

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    • FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “It’s like chatgpt but it only prints replies on physical paper so it’s a premium experience, and the ai is expressive so it will use delightfully colorful, full page background images for its replies.”

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    • artificialfish@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve been in an acquisition like this. I feel for anyone who has their startup work dismantled by an acquisition just looking to hire and squash their product.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The product was a failure long before HP got anywhere near it

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  • MisterD@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Internet of things == internet of trash

    Don’t buy shit you cannot own

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    • cynar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      IoT can be great. The key is, as you pointed out, to actually have personal control over it.

      It also has to account for WAF (wife acceptance factor). If it doesn’t fail gracefully to a dumb version of itself, it’s not to be trusted

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  • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh good, more useless e-waste.

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    • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Everytime there is a new technology everyone rushes to cram it into literally anything. Like when Bluetooth came out. Or the first apps, blockchain, etc. It’s honestly sickening in my actual stomach. Big or small e-waste for all.

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They worked before? Not what I heard.

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    • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think the article says they will work less than before.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They’re gonna suddenly be too light to use as a paper weight? 🤨

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  • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A little shocked the Rabbit R1 outlived them. Mine is still chugging, though a lot of the features (like MidJourney integration) have been halted.

    Gonna be a fun little Android media player in a few months I suppose.

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    • paequ2@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, the R1 was $200, came with a year of Perplexity, and didn’t require a subscription.

      The Pin started at $500 and required a subscription, along with a new phone number.

      Not that surprised.

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      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I thought that the subscription money was what would keep them afloat for longer

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had never heard of it. From wiki

    The Ai Pin is a wearable device, meant to be attached to the user’s shirt at chest level. It is a voice assistant and cellular phone, equipped with a camera, and a limited monochrome “screen” that’s projected onto the user’s hand on demand. The user mostly interacts with the device through a small touchpad, and also hand gestures when the projection screen is active.[15]

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It has AI in the name.

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      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yep!

        All the tech companies are invested in AI, and it’s gloriously expensive to do from scratch. Instead, they’ll drop $100 million to “stay relevant in today’s climate” without doing any work.

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    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If nothing else, the list of customers who were interested enough to spend money on such a product might be valuable to them.

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      • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        10,000 buyers. Yeah, no.

        Even it was much higher, yeah no.

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    • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nothing, and that’s why they are shutting it down. You should read the article, HP’s comments on what they get from the acquisition are directly quoted in it.

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      • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Seriously?

        Ok:

        What the hell does hp see in IP in this?

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    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      IP hoarding of products that may potentially be produced. Millions of dollars aren’t a pocket change, but if anyone’s going into this wearable AI bullshit, HP’d make a hole in their pockets. It’s a low stakes conservative gamble ‘just in case’.

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      • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have a hard time seeing much patentable. They can’t just patent ‘wearable pin’, it has to be much more specific.

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  • Jode@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    distant Zitron laughing

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My man is going to get a permanent desk at TrashFuture if this keeps up.

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  • nick@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Was anyone ever able to accurately count the number of almonds in their hand?

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