🤖 Wearable AI... Future or Flop?

Hello, fellow nerds 🧙

Well, the Winklevoss twins seem to be doing pretty well — you know, the guys who had the idea for Facebook, but Zuckerberg stole it.

They just dropped $4.5 million in crypto into Real Bedford, making it the largest investment made into a football club in the UK outside of the pro leagues. Which is crazy because Real Bedford is currently playing in the 11th division…out of 11 divisions.

Here’s the daily quests in AI to complete today:

• 🤖 Wearable AI… Future or Flop?

• 🌎️ Potential Cure for Flat Earthers

• 🤣 Meme Monday

• 👃 Daily Delight - What’s that Smell?

Wearable AI… Future or Flop?

Let’s cut to the chase, we’re as attached to our phones as a toddler to their blankie.

According to Marques Brownlee of the MKBHD YouTube channel, whether we all admit it or not, our smartphones are as close to perfection as it gets when it comes to AI assistants.

The Humane AI pin, however, is one of the most anticipated pieces of AI wearable tech suggested to replace your smartphone.

TLDR: Save Your Money

Here’s a breakdown of his 25 minute review where he outlines the good, the bad, and a whole lot of ugly.

The Good

• The Idea - AI assistant in your pocket

• The Product Design - Designed by ex-Apple employees, the hardware delights, choose from the cheaper and lighter plastic version or a more heavy-duty aluminum

• Intuitive Interactions - Easy to learn how to interact via tap, pinch, hand roll, etc.

The Bad

• Sags Clothing - The hardware looks good but it sags on anything less than a sweatshirt

• Overheats - With the battery on your chest, it will overheat and ask you to wait for it to cool down

• Goodbye Screen. Hello Projector - The idea of interacting with the AI pin via a projection on your hand is pretty damn cool but in practice, it’s difficult to navigate and takes a lot of time. Dimmer projection the further away your hand is from the AI pin

The Ugly

• Can’t Set a Timer!! - Uh, hello? The most used feature of Amazon’s Alexa...

• Battery - 2-4 hours of battery life, hit or miss

• Price - Starts at $699

• Slow, Hallucinating AI - Asking questions and waiting for a response is like watching paint dry and hoping it didn’t make up the answer.

• App Support - No Apps, By Design. Can’t use Spotify, Uber, Amazon, etc.

• Friction - The majority of tasks we would use the AI pin for are incredibly faster by simply using our smartphone

Last but not least, the lack of a screen and apps makes it incredibly difficult to do simple things such as checking out reviews for shopping or changing an Uber pickup location.

You can get a sneak peak of the look of disgust in the thumbnail but if you really want the MKBHD full monty, check out the video below.

Potential Cure for Flat Earthers

Researchers at MIT and Cornell just dropped a fascinating study showing that good ol' fashioned evidence and reasoned debate - when conducted by AI language models like GPT-4 - can significantly reduce people's belief in wild conspiracy theories. Ya know, the moon landing was fake or the Earth is flat kind of stuff.

Here’s the human whisperer GPT-4 at work:

And it turns out, after these conversations, conspiracy belief levels plummeted by around 20 percentage points on average, with effects persisting for at least two months post-AI interaction according to the study. So, not too shabby, honestly.

Now to be clear, the language models didn't completely un-brainwash anyone, but the researchers seem legitimately shook that such open-minded AI conversations could chip away at some of these hardcore conspiracy beliefs.

Could this be the secret superpower to finally depolarizing your stubborn auntor uncle who selectively "do their own research" on Facebook? Crossing our fingers 🤞 

It's all an intriguing idea, if nothing else. Though we do wonder if conspiracy theorists maybe just trust a “neutral” machine more than people at this point? Which kinda sounds like its own conspiracy in itself.

Although, there is a flip side to all this. If an AI can persuade a person one way, who’s to say it can’t persuade the other way? We’ll just block out those bad thoughts.

🤣 Meme Monday

It’s Monday, we all need a little laugh…

Udio isn’t just for music, with 1200 free credits, you can create stand-up comedy, too! Honestly, it’s not too shabby…

Daily Delight

Just something fun and interesting around the web.

McDonalds has taken scratch and sniff to a whole new level. And we’re not sure what this says about our society as a whole, but yolo.

Introducing, the world’s first scented billboard. The smell? French fries…

What’s happening inside the Realm

A list of side quests to explore and more.

• 🪥 Buy an AI toothbrush that learns more about your mouth than you'd ever want to know for just $299

• 🤖 Amazon’s robot population just keeps growing. It now “employs” over 750,000 robots and counting

• 📱 You can finally play your favorite Pokémon games on iPhone using your favorite emulator thanks to a new court ruling

• 💰️ Wallstreet is doubling down on AI big time as banks are looking to cut analyst hiring by 67%

That’s all the quests we have for today. Check back tomorrow for more!

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