The aftermath of Humane's AI Pin launch
At large, the answer is obviously no, but there's been a lot of discourse around Humane’s Ai Pin and Marques Brownlee’s review of it. Let's go over what the product is, the power of social media and/or lack thereof, and my thoughts on Ai Pin.
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Chapters
0:00 - Intro to Ai Pin discourse
0:31 - Intro to MKBHD discourse
1:14 - The three public reactions
1:57 - Back Market partnership
2:46 - What is Humane?
3:27 - What is Ai Pin?
5:10 - Critiques about the hardware
5:41 - Critiques about the software
6:38 - Praises about the hardware
7:00 - Praises about the software
7:39 - Ai Pin v1 vs iPhone v1
8:23 - Should people buy Ai Pin?
8:46 - Those taking MKBHD’s title too literally
10:49 - Those who believe MKBHD went too far
17:25 - Those who are like damn, but there’s still potential
20:24 - My experience owning Ai Pin
24:02 - The outlook I find most important
24:48 - Outro
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Last time I checked, MKBHD is a reviewer, and reviews can be positive or negative. I mean, what are we exactly doing here ? Are we telling a reviewer to be a little dishonest ? Are we telling a company it’s ok to make bad products ? When have we become this soft ?
Simple answer, nope. He has the right to speak his thoughts. Interested to watch the rest of your thoughts on this though. I'm commenting within the first couple minutes.
I think his review was quite fair. The actual video, he was quite nice about it. If the product is bad then its bad the review announce that instead of mislead people.
No, he's a reviewer. That's his job... how is this a question?!
nah MKBHD was actually real nice. I was wracking this thing since day one... I wasn't wrong. but people blaming Mark.... is crazy. he didn't created the device, it showed the truth.
These companies should just stop releasing garbage and I think they'd be OK.
Original video title was "Did MKBHD go too far?" but changed it bc people were commenting on the title and not the coverage. In case you were wondering why some comments are like 'no'
I hope the “next big thing” isn’t mobile tech related. Although I appreciate the cool efforts these companies do, I feel they are pushing flashy tech down our throats because people are starting to want to move away from smartphones.
This was a pretty good rundown of the events. First-time viewer, I loved the video so I'll be sticking around.
When you sell a product that barely does what it’s supposed to do for $700 and expect good reviews, I think you cannot blame the reviewer. $700 can buy a flagship phone with real quad HD screen and can do everything a mobile phone should do. The AI pin is a new concept, it may have “the concept “ a good future after reaching maturity in implementation and economy of scale. But AI Pins’ mistake I think is trying to get their investment money back from the first product.
Your reaction to the TikTok product reviewers is heartwarming and priceless.
Love the way you have analyzed and broken down your points! You seem interesting; most likely someone I could converse and brainstorm with if we were friends. Just very well done. Subscribed, hoping to enjoy more content just like I did Marques.
Thanks for this video this was a really clear breakdown of the product and recent events I really appreciate your honest assessment. I believe humane will become stronger they have a leadership team that is smart and for me most importantly respectful and kind. Anyone who is helping me be more present is helping me with my real life relationships. This is what I value most in my life is family and friends. When my head is stuck in my phone those relationships suffer
Very nice! first video of yours I've seen. I like the way you present information. New sub :-) for me the only question I have is, when he wrote that title..did he believe it was true? having watched him for more than a decade, i think he's earned the benefit of the doubt. reviews should be honest and not pull punches to spare the company. reviews are For consumers. if everything he said/wrote was his honest feeling, then the review is valid and useful.
No recent product had this huge difference between what the company's vision/marketing was and what they actually shipped on day one. Apple Vision Pro didn't meet the hype either and it is too expensive for what you can do as well but Apple didn't over hype it this much and then under delivered this much. I don't think laser displays and voice i/o is the future. I do think companies like Humane experimenting will bring the future sooner. I hope they can at least accomplish what they hoped for v1 before it's too late. Also we don't actually know if our data is actually safe with Humane. They might have bugs, get hacked or sold etc. It's still refreshing to see them try to do it right.
How the heck do you check a file or your work without a screen?
Imo people are too dramatic about reviews. If a product is good, people will buy it. You can’t blame a review for a company failing.
3:22 I'm a software engineer and this makes me angry. This is the most ridiculously simplest thing ever, how can that ever be patented, that's basic data processing, that patent is too broad. What they done is almost like a musician getting a copyright on the major scale.
The fact that I have Apple Music and I want my calls and messages to come from only one number makes this a no go for me.
Great video, am subscribing because you have a lot of interesting videos hope your channel grows till it matches the quality of your content❤
I have been watching MKBHD for more than a decade and I think this is actually the worst product he reviewed. He had videos about way worse stuff but those were not reviews
only thing humane needs to do is 1. go asap make a deal with groq and make sure those requests to AI are snappy and fast... and they will definitely be able to do it with LPUs... 2. refine the software and add some mechanism for AI halucinations to be filtered or corrected... it could be as easy as googleing in parallel and letting another model judge if there is a halucination... Their hardware is solid but i wish they would do a needle like contact points for the extra battery so you connect it not via shitty wireless charging but via physical contact (optionally allowing for wireless if you have clothing that shouldn't be penetrated with a needle)
A few things. I think that AI in general isn’t ready for prime time yet. That’s a big reason why neither of the new AI devices have gotten great reviews. That said, I think it’s about time that the typical smart phone design is starting to be rethought. Fails like this are inevitable along that journey. Finally, MKBHD and others reviews can be summed up by failing to deliver on marketed ‘promises’. If consumers are mislead or their expectations aren’t correctly set, a company is just asking for trouble. To tech savvy people, it should be obvious that the AI Pin is more of an alpha or maybe beta level product, but I watched their announcement, and it really made a case for how amazing the Pin ALREADY is… I’m not sure what they or armchair critics thought was going to happen when it hit reviewers hands.
great vid
great video
I kind of feel like the people who got so mad about Marques's title streisand effect'd it, and polarized the issue, leading to only more dogpiling when people defended him. re AVP vs Pin as emerging products comparison: among other things, the AVP at least has a dev platform and is a fun device that developers can tinker with. I'd love to tinker with the Pin's projector and all the cool things the novel form factor could enable, but Humane doesn't allow me to do that right now. If they launched the Pin as a devkit, they could have gotten away with a lot more unfinished-ness. fwiw, Humane's vision really excited me and I bought a Pin myself, but when I try to use it the product that exists today... it sucks, and I'm really sad about it. I decided to try a Pixel Watch after using the Pin for a while, and the watch, combined with the Google Assistant, can do almost everything it can do better right now.
If you move the letters around, you can spell “iPain”.
i have to say, wearing a spotify sweatshirt saying nobody has tidal lmfao. cute. I have tidal though.. It's a cool streaming app.
The issue really is, the AI Pin product is sub par compared to the general expectation. The response time is unexpectedly long so the general user experience is poor in that context. The pour fire into the burning flame, we have Rabbit R1 as a direct competitor that even more functions yet provide close to user expected pseudo realtime response. The accuracy is very similar and that comes from the lack AI curation of the responses before sending that to the user. R1 is also just $300 without the subscription overhead. The difference here is R1 has a LAM that allows for better integration to other apps of the users via the web interface (that can be reached with a phone or laptop). Here, R1 beat the AI Pin handsdown in speed, thus a pleasant and predictable user experience. The fact that the AI Pin is heavy and overheats is something that needs urgent fix. The fact that AI Pin has such a scathing review overall comes from its unexpected/unrealistic hype created before actual launch. This creates an impossible user expectation that is a precursor to poor and bad reviews. No, MKBHD did nothing wrong. You have to understand that the market base for this AI Pin product ALREADY has a high-end phone (possibly two or more). This means the Pin is inherently competing with the phone by its user.
@16.46 the lady who complains about Google showing other questions!. Hey, Google is behaving like a woman!. Answering a question with another question. Ladies, do you know, when you do that, the man is actually annoyed or furious he is not getting an answer!. If a lady answers: "i don't know' she might get some respect from the man. If she answers: "Not sure but, it could be this....." that might intrigue a man. But by asking another question that is a tangent to the question being asked just because she does not know the answer but trying to deflect the question, that is infuriating to a man!.
Is there anyone in NYC or NJ who has already installed Humane AI Pin, that can help me?
6:30 ...and it can’t set an alarm or a timer 💀
I have a Humane AI Pin, too. The real story is that the Humane team are taking feedback for improvements, have sent updates out that remedy overheating, and are aware of ALL of the broken promises. They sent out a beta product at retail prices in the hopes that people would not return them; some will stay on board and some will leave. Many haven't even received theirs yet. I think they pushed to market too soon, and risk falling flat. I haven't decided whether I'll return mine yet, but I am for sure disappointed at the first run.
She is my fav !
Besides if the product its not already 100 % properly working as a lot of starts up I do believe the title of”worst product “ its absolutely unnecessary. Of course he has the right to give his audience his opinion,although I consider that it’s not the way to start a review and that kind of title doesn’t benefit him.
the other thing the folks crying about MKBHD's very good and honest review should keep in mind is that Humane are sitting on a gigantic pile of cash still. they can easily afford to go back to the drawing board and come up with something much better. i don't have much confidence they will though if they really thought the product in it's current state was worthy of a big release.
Forgot to say that I believe ,the concept its very innovative but so far for a very specific niche of users.
I think the pushback echoes some of the political discourse from the whole political spectrum. Dislike someone’s opinion (which again, is what a review is) and they should be silenced or cancelled.
Thats a good point, how dare the reviewer have opinions. However I think using clickbait titles like that is a little irresponsible
@@joesiegel5161 Is it though? I mean, yes, it is designed to get the most clicks, but every title on KZhead is. The difference between a lot of actual clickbait titles and his is that his is actually the truth. I don't think he misled people in any way, so I don't see how that's irresponsible. Does he have a responsibility to soften the blow or not hurt a corporation's feelings? That seems more irresponsible than posting the unfiltered truth.
Really appreciate how you handled the interview. I went into watching it for your take and seeing what their vision was for the future vs where the product is today. I love leaving the house with just a smartwatch and meta glasses vs a full fledged phone. I like where this tech is headed even if it's not there at this iteration.
He didn’t, and I hope this backlash will go a long way towards fixing the prevailing zeitgeist in tech that it’s okay to push the beta test phase to paying users.
I like MKBHD, but I find he does too much. Some of the car vids are just lazy and not informed. And so those gave me the impression that he uses his fame to gain reach, while really not being the best at the job. (Not a comment on this specific topic. Or the car vid mentioned here.)
This is what happens when the “participation trophy generation” (of which I’m a member, so don’t “OK Boomer” me) gets into positions of influence. They get so mad offended and use buzz phrases like “unethical” or “irresponsible” to describe a tech reviewer just doing their job because “he could’ve been nicer about it.” No sir, when a product is being sold for hundreds of dollars plus a monthly subscription, I’d say it’s unethical and irresponsible to not be honest about said product’s shortcomings. This is real life. And sometimes in real life, you lose. It’s not the pretty, flowery picture we get in the movies. Sometimes the gamble doesn’t pay off, and we all need to get a lot more OK with that.
I kinda like it as a concept, but as a product... Nah. It's like a smartphone with extra steps and way less features
No? Lol
That dumbest @1:09 is actually the dumbest product. I wanted to know who approved the design?
no he did not lmao, next question
7:00 🥹🙏🏻
No.
I don't think it's MKBHD's fault that people are stupid
Half baked product … AT BEST!!!
IMO, the issue with the title isn't that it was clickbait, but that it was the opposite of clickbait. In that, millions of people will see the definite headline and will not want to waste 25mins of their busy day for what appears to be the worst product ever.
I never liked the guy and his reviews are meh 🤷🏼♂️
so much potential but the occasional cussing is off putting and seems unnecessary, imo.. but good luck with the channel
He did.. he is just chasing clout. He can't be trusted and is obviously profiting from this. This is why innovation can't happen because slugs like the alleged reviewer
MKBHD has been raising the bar of tech KZhead video quality for 15 years straight. Humane blew 230 million USD in five years developing a $699 plus $24 a month subscription pin that overheats within minutes of use and that can’t even set a timer. It seems pretty obvious to me which of the two is the slug.
@@gosorios you want timer or an AI assistant?
@@daintyminnie9270 I bet you’d fire a human assistant real fast if they couldn’t remind you something in 15 minutes.