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Humane is said to be seeking a $1 billion buyout after only 10,000 orders of its terrible AI Pin (www.engadget.com)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that's the pudding. The device had a high bar for entry with its price and was a very novel tech device. Most people interested in the concept likely were reticent to pre-order and wanted to wait for early adopter reports to surface. I maintain that there is a viable market and sufficient enthusiasm for the technology / concept that the company promised, but obviously not the one they delivered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, sure. Several startups are making bank selling AI, not to individuals, but to companies. There is no money to be made long term on mediocre chatbots. No matter in what form factor they come, and unfortunately, this and the rabbit thing poisoned the market and clearly marked anything AI as a scam on buyer's minds.

Edit: also, if the hype were really that high for such a device, then the rabbit should've sold a lot more units, since it was the budget version of the humane pin. But that wasn't the case either. And now everyone knows both companies were just pump and dump scams.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Rabbit r1 garnered $10million in pre-order sales. How many should it have sold to impress you? The first 5 batches I think sold out within a day or days, production of the units appeared to be the bottleneck until people actually got a hold of them and reported on how awful they were.

You just seem bent on this whole issue. Is there a point you want to make? Or are you just upset about AI stuff in general?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

My point is that the hype is very intense, but not massively distributed. I just try to promote critical thinking and reasoning by calling out bullshitters and retconners. Rabbit r1 sold 50000 units in a few days, that is in fact impressive, and a sign of a core audience that is very passionate about a concept. Of course, before it came out that they were in fact a scam company.

But, let's look at the big picture. Worldwide, over 4 000 000 cellphones are sold…every day. Even if we look at just the US market, we are talking about 300 000 cellphone sales per day. This puts things in perspective. Tech enthusiast, compulsive buyers and obsessive nerds might hype up things to the moon and back. But the fact of the matter is that they are not representative of the market. The whole market of potential buyers of a computing device as a whole were at best mildly curious, and at worst entirely oblivious of the existence of the r1 and the humane pin.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But you ARE the bullshiter. You are not some voice of reason. The initial iPhone sold 270,000 units in its first two days. You can't compare a novel tech device to something with decades of evolution.

Time will be the only judge here. You are making an opinionated statement about the interest of the global population that is speculation biased from your own personal opinion when there is data that suggests that opieis incorrect. Argue all you want or just Wait 10 years and see. But some sort of vert successful AI aasisitive enabled glasses, pin, Earbuds, or other wearable is a highly likely evolution of these early failures.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yours is also an opinionated statement about the interest of the global population that is speculation biased from your own personal opinion. You presented some data, and I counterargued with my own data. Chill out. Neither of us is here debating for world peace or anything. But I would add that wisdom of the masses (votes) seem to agree with me. Which is further evidence that at least on this community, there was no hype. The nerd culture is actually very anti AI. It's business bros that share your worldview.