[nickrubin]

Their demo of AI Q&A in the announcement video (@3:36) is totally wrong. The Pin says the April 2024 total eclipse will be best viewed from Australia and East-Timor... Except the eclipse passes over the US and will be nowhere near Australia. The answer seems to be about a partial eclipse in April 2023. How was that not fact checked???

[paxys]

That's what you get when your futuristic "AI pin" works by making an API request to an off-the-shelf LLM (ChatGPT I assume) that was last trained a year ago.

[SahAssar]

Eclipses are extremely predictable, right? I don't think the problem is that the LLM has old data, the problem is that is wrong.

[mkumar10]

| How was that not fact checked???

Cause they aren't Apple, just the cheap knock-offs

[jswny]

Apple doesn't make anything close to this hardware?

[madeofpalk]

eh, this is essentially a phone or a watch without a screen, and a bunch of "inventions" to accomodate the fact that it doesn't have a screen.

[gizajob]

Ha you're kidding right? This is almost an attempt at adding another product to Apple's existing range of hardware, which is all phenomenally close to this hardware by being a chip, a camera, audio IO, and in their case a screen rather than a projector. You couldn't get closer if you tried.

[gardenhedge]

The demo was showing how you can interact with it. I don't think this is a big deal. If they're using GPT-4 or another model, then it will be resolved when the AI model is.

[djur]

What reason do we have to believe that the underlying technology will improve enough for the product to be actually usable? Many of this product's features require a degree of trust that clearly isn't merited at this stage. An assistant that tells me to go to an event at a place it's not happening is worse than useless. Their advertising shows a person asking "can I eat this?" with a piece of fruit -- that's not a question you want a hallucinated answer to!

[gardenhedge]

Product reviews

[nickrubin]

This is especially embarrassing because their logo is literally an eclipse and it's the name of one of their color options... Seriously??

[jeffbee]

They're not "color options" they are "colorways", you rube. And it doesn't come in three shades of grey, it comes in "Lunar", "Equinox", and "Eclipse". Those colors are worth easily $100 of the MSRP right there.

[gizajob]

The colourway of their stock price is soon to come in "blood moon".

[user_named]

This company will never go public. It's share price has never been anything but 0.