This was to be the smartphone of the future. Today, the Humane AI Pin is rather a joke. This gadget to hang on your jacket allows you, thanks to AI, to call a friend, look for information or write it down, without a phone. But the first tests of the device are clear. “It just doesn’t work,” summarizes the famous American tech media The Verge. The AI Pin takes too long to respond, often makes mistakes, heats up and discharges very quickly. While it costs a whopping $699.
But let’s not make fun of this funny AI pin. First, because “hardware” is a difficult bet for a start-up. Secondly, because the new generation of generative artificial intelligence is radically changing the way we can interact with a device. While assistants like those from Apple or Google only understood basic requests, large language models (LLM) will make this type of program incredible all-terrain. Quantum physics, cooking, history… Whatever the request, these AIs interpret it better and better and respond with the desired tone and profusion of details.
Dialogue with machines is no longer painful. And Humane is right to think that, tomorrow, we will spend less time looking at our screens, and more talking to them. This could help us no longer be caught up in these colorful skylights. But perhaps it will be necessary for experienced builders to get involved so that the mayonnaise takes hold.