The great, the bad, and the Humane Pin
/ On The Vergecast: the state and future of AI gizmos, Taylor Swift’s TikTok return, and celebration speakers all over.
By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a years of experience covering customer tech. Formerly, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.
Apr 12, 2024, 1:26 PM UTC
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7. Hundred. Dollars. After a year of asking concerns about this much-hyped AI wearable, the Humane AI Pin is here, and, well, we still have great deals of concerns. We’re likewise still attempting to determine how everything works– and where it goes from here.
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On this episode of The Vergecastwe dive deep into our evaluation of the AI Pin and attempt to find out what failed with this gadget and whether there’s a genuine future for it or any other AI-powered gizmo. The difficulty, we find, is that these gadgets are stacking brand-new innovation on top of brand-new innovation, and till all of it works completely, none of it will work effectively. Did we discuss the AI Pin is 7 hundred dollars?
After that, we discuss the growing rift in between OpenAI and the rest of the web after some excellent reporting demonstrated how lots of countless YouTube videos the business transcribed and utilized to train its designs. We likewise discuss how Taylor Swift’s music returned to TikTok and whether there may be more to come.
We get an incredibly on-brand set of news in the lightning round, consisting of E Ink screens, content guideline, and picture sharing. Sony likewise made a brand-new celebration speaker, so obviously, we invest an unreasonably long period of time on the celebration speaker. You need to take a look at those images.
If you need to know more about whatever we go over in this episode, here are a couple of links to get you began, starting with Humane:
On AI:
On Taylor Swift:
And in the lightning round: