Humane takes another stab at launching AI people want

Humane, the maker of the AI pin, has decided to pivot from its hardware aspirations to software. After a less-than-stellar launch, with it unable to complete certain advertised tasks, the Humane AI Pin has been moved aside.

It seems that the company doesn’t intend to target just one product anymore, but every product. In a new video demo, Humane shows off its vision for the “information age”. This includes baking its AI into cars, TV, and more.

The company is now trying to launch its own operating system (OS), dubbed CosmOS. It aims to “orchestrate” various artificial intelligence agents and actions by restructuring the way users interact with a device or OS.

Rather than the user interacting with each individual program and interface, the AI would do it for you through different AI Agents. Agents are specialized pieces of software aimed to make AI do a very specific job.

However, in the video demo – in which Humane added fine print that it was for “illustrative” purposes – Humane claims it built the OS for the Pin. The Pin actually ran on a version of Android, and in the demo appears to be an interactive AI agent layer rather than a fully fledged alternative to iOS or Android.

Building a brand-new OS is incredibly difficult, and adoption is even harder. Huawei is currently poised to ditch Android after the West ditched it due to fears of Chinese interference. HarmonyOS is expected only to succeed because 25% of Chinese phone owners are already with Huawei.

Skepticism is high with the announcement. At launch, the Humane Pin’s CosmOS struggled to pronounce and find Beyoncé songs in a video because of the accented e. The Pin itself was actually returned more than it sold during launch.

The video mostly deals with managing calendars, and appointments and listening to recipes on what appears to be a censored Amazon Alexa. It’s planned to also read emails, and what’s on the screen to provide more information.

Everything demonstrated is what Google and Apple plan to bake into their devices with Gemini and Siri. However, even early attempts through Apple Intelligence and Google Assistant updates have been met with issues, including making things up.

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