As with all emergent tech, AI has been an absolute rollercoaster. We've gone from funky deep-dream psychedelia and crunchy robot voices that sort of sound like Spongebob to a legal and ethical minefield. While it's been used for some cool stuff, like DLSS upscaling, it's also, uh, been used by the UK government for welfare benefit claims, or to make NSFW mods without the original voice actor's consent. Boot, meet mine.
Still, tech companies have been hungry to find the next use case that'll finally catapult us into the future of hi-tech assistants. After all, who doesn't want a little brain in your pocket to chat with? One such company is Humane, who have revealed a very weird magnetic camera-pin-AI assistant thing you can buy for the low low price of… $699. Jeez.
