Chaudhri: Multimodal AI eliminates the need for full computing screens
Imran Chaudhri · AI that can be your second brain with Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri of Humane · Mar 14, 2024 · at 14:42
Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri explains the design thesis behind leaving Apple to create screenless, multimodal wearable hardware like the AI Pin.
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“Smartphones are great. They're really, really great at what they can do now, but they're very limited in terms of how much more they can do. And if you think about if they're able to leverage some of these multimodal inputs that use text and voice and sound and image and eventually video, You need a new kind of computer that really allows for you to take advantage of that kind of processing, and at that point, you don't need to use screens the same way. You need screens because screens confirm everything that you're doing, whether you're typing in something properly, or whether you've tapped the right button, but if you can actually Take that away. Take the burden of that away. You don't need a screen other than something for a lightweight confirmation”
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