The podcast discusses why the speaker is not excited about the new Humane AI pin and how it fails to address broader issues of AI integration and knowledge management.
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The Humane AI Pin aims to solve the inconvenience of taking out phones from pockets, while companies like Apple and Google are addressing the problem of asking for tasks rather than doing them ourselves.
The author believes that with AI integration into operating systems and the availability of knowledge recording and creation tools, products targeting the convenience of displaying information are likely to become obsolete.
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The Confusion of Multiple Problems
The essay discusses the Humane AI Pin, a wearable device that allows users to activate it with their finger and give commands like reading and sending texts, getting the latest news, and looking up information. The essay argues that the pin confuses multiple problems. Problem one suggests that we should be able to ask for things instead of doing them ourselves. Problem two is the inconvenience of taking our phones out of our pockets to display things. And problem three is the struggle to remember things. While the Humane AI Pin solves problem two, the author personally identifies with problem one and problem three, which they believe are being addressed by companies like Apple and Google incorporating AI into their operating systems and companies like Rewind or Tab that record and create searchable knowledge.
The Irrelevance of the Humane AI Pin
Despite acknowledging the coolness of the Humane AI Pin, the essay concludes that it does not cater to the author's problems, which they believe are shared by most people as well. With AI being integrated into upcoming iOS and Mac OS updates, the author feels that products targeting problem two are likely to become obsolete. Consequently, the author expresses a lack of interest in the Humane AI Pin, not because they consider it uncool, but because it does not address the problems they and others genuinely face.