<story><title>Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)</title><url>https://kguttag.com/2023/12/06/humane-ai-pico-laser-projection-230m-ai-twist-on-an-old-scam/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>Seems a bit much calling it a scam. That to me implies malicious intent which I don’t think is in place here. Bad&amp;#x2F;imperfect products happen even to well meaning companies.&lt;p&gt;Must admit I’m surprised by the aggressiveness of it all. It’s almost like an echo chamber where people have decided it’s ok to pile on</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swiftcoder</author><text>&amp;gt; Seems a bit much calling it a scam. That to me implies malicious intent which I don’t think is in place here. Bad&amp;#x2F;imperfect products happen even to well meaning companies.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no malicious intent in producing glossy promos videos of a device you know a priori does not (and cannot) work, becaue it violates a few laws of physics? I feel like some folks around here have become very innured to false advertising</text></comment>
<story><title>Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)</title><url>https://kguttag.com/2023/12/06/humane-ai-pico-laser-projection-230m-ai-twist-on-an-old-scam/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>Seems a bit much calling it a scam. That to me implies malicious intent which I don’t think is in place here. Bad&amp;#x2F;imperfect products happen even to well meaning companies.&lt;p&gt;Must admit I’m surprised by the aggressiveness of it all. It’s almost like an echo chamber where people have decided it’s ok to pile on</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gizmo</author><text>Every once in a while a highly funded startup launches a hilariously bad product. Five or so years ago everybody (rightfully) made fun of the juicero. Before that we had Google Glass (glasshole). Today the Humane Pin has to suffer slings and arrows.&lt;p&gt;Humane AI would never have been able to raise 230+ million had they been truthful about what could be built with the current state of technology. Did the investors understand that you have to recharge the Humane Pin every 2 hours? Did the investors know their laser projection press photos are photoshopped? Did the investors know the laser projector doesn&amp;#x27;t meet the advertised resolution? The Humane Pin is science fiction.&lt;p&gt;In many ways the Humane Pin is like Theranos. Holmes probably didn&amp;#x27;t mean to defraud people. She just raised money for a product that couldn&amp;#x27;t be built with the current state of technology.</text></comment>