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The Disappearing Computer: An Exclusive Preview of Humane’s Screenless Tech | Imran Chaudhri | TED

In this exclusive preview of groundbreaking, unreleased technology, former Apple designer and Humane cofounder Imran Chaudhri envisions a future where AI enables our devices to “disappear.” He gives a sneak peek of his company’s new product — shown for the first time ever on the TED stage — and explains how it could change the…

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In this exclusive preview of groundbreaking, unreleased technology, former Apple designer and Humane cofounder Imran Chaudhri envisions a future where AI enables our devices to “disappear.” He gives a sneak peek of his company’s new product — shown for the first time ever on the TED stage — and explains how it could change the way we interact with tech and the world around us. Witness a stunning vision of the next leap in device design.

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  1. yuskee

    May 9, 2023 at 8:09 pm

    “live freely” lol

  2. When The Edibles Kick In

    May 9, 2023 at 8:13 pm

    It’s like someone giving a talk about walking 12 years after the wheel was invented. Risible.

  3. A Canadian

    May 9, 2023 at 8:14 pm

    Who’s not on 1.5 speed? 🙂

  4. Alex Bašić

    May 9, 2023 at 8:16 pm

    The amount of progress his actual device is at is quite basic but his concept is real for venture capital

  5. MojoKiss

    May 9, 2023 at 8:19 pm

    finally eyes in the back of our heads

  6. Eva Von

    May 9, 2023 at 8:22 pm

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  7. randomcomentator

    May 9, 2023 at 8:25 pm

    Humane is a fraud. Why is nobody saying that outloud?

  8. drpepa09

    May 9, 2023 at 8:28 pm

    Ai is becoming a religion it seems.
    Not a bad pitch though. Is this really about solving a problem? Or just more behaviour modification, big corp exploiting human input in name of ai.. am i using the technology or is it using me 👽 looks cool tho lol

  9. Wyatt Blanton

    May 9, 2023 at 8:28 pm

    Damn homie really took the design straight out of revelation. Didn’t even try to change it up a lil

  10. moondawg

    May 9, 2023 at 8:33 pm

    I don’t know Rick, looks fake to me

  11. kinn grimm

    May 9, 2023 at 8:37 pm

    “hearing what you hear, seeing what you see”
    Yeah because that couldn’t go horribly wrong a million different ways when paired with A(G)I or even without with just human shiftiness.

  12. Noah Kadner

    May 9, 2023 at 8:45 pm

    I don’t see how this “kills” anything but itself.

  13. Samuel Zev

    May 9, 2023 at 8:46 pm

    As impressive as it seems, the idea of technology being almost invisible as a small wearable device is already here, it’s called the Apple Watch and it’s not that impressive. I thought it would be something more like a holographic projection that we see in the iron man movies with an AI like Jarvis

  14. DildoSwagins

    May 9, 2023 at 8:48 pm

    He literally just said “hearing what you hear, seeing what you see. While being privacy first”….

  15. Vaibhav Logar

    May 9, 2023 at 8:50 pm

    Which company was this?

  16. Del Mar Apartments

    May 9, 2023 at 8:50 pm

    Sign me up. I want one in the shape of a Star Trek Communicator Badge.

  17. Ian McDonald

    May 9, 2023 at 8:50 pm

    eh, not that impressive…

  18. Dream Drifter

    May 9, 2023 at 9:07 pm

    Increasingly higher-powered EMF, increasingly closer to our tickers… What could possibly go wrong?

  19. Kyle Wollman

    May 9, 2023 at 9:12 pm

    What if I don’t have a shirt pocket?

    • Piotr Rypel

      May 9, 2023 at 9:21 pm

      it’s a magnet

  20. Michael Hulme

    May 9, 2023 at 9:14 pm

    If only someone had taught him about a Bluetooth headset 15 years ago. He could’ve saved himself a ton of money and time. 😅

    • Piotr Rypel

      May 9, 2023 at 9:21 pm

      absolute moronic and idiotic comment

  21. Andrew G

    May 9, 2023 at 9:19 pm

    Will see what Apple has to say about that 🙂

  22. Avinabh Thakur

    May 9, 2023 at 9:22 pm

    So we entered the real ironman era.

  23. Shiqi Xu

    May 9, 2023 at 9:23 pm

    I don’t think he convinced himself – that why he paused several times trying to pick up words. What he believes has nothing to do with AI, but he/his company is using the hype

  24. Cláudio M

    May 9, 2023 at 9:26 pm

    It looks cool, but voice assistants are not a natural interface for everyday tasks. This seems like a portable, more advanced Alexa.

  25. cecep suwanda

    May 10, 2023 at 4:36 pm

    several step more to one of star trek technology … wow …

  26. Roland Stojkoski

    May 10, 2023 at 4:44 pm

    Voice assistants are just a gimmick, rarely useful. Wanna talk about technology being hidden – focus on Brain Computer Interface.

  27. Sebastian SB

    May 10, 2023 at 4:54 pm

    “My AI”

  28. furiousimprovisation

    May 10, 2023 at 4:55 pm

    A haiku for humane:

    Device with no screen. 
    An airplane missing its wings. 
    No way it will fly

    • Gigi Ghiba

      May 10, 2023 at 4:58 pm

      A body with no soul
      No way it will live

  29. Billy Gallant

    May 10, 2023 at 5:04 pm

    I wonder what Elon Musk and Neuralink think of this? Thinking directly to the computer is gonna be pretty immediate and hard to beat. ChatGpt in your head.

    • Gigi Ghiba

      May 10, 2023 at 5:06 pm

      “It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.” ( Revelation 13:16-17)

  30. banana milk tae

    May 10, 2023 at 5:10 pm

    THIS IS MY BEST FRIENDS UNCLE

  31. sidneyraz

    May 10, 2023 at 5:11 pm

    dope dope dope dope

  32. Leave Empty

    May 10, 2023 at 5:22 pm

    Hans Snook (Orange UK) had this vision 30 years ago talking about a device in a button on your jacket. Technology is finally catching up…….

  33. Lord Timothious

    May 10, 2023 at 5:24 pm

    Well that didn’t take very long! Imagine 5 years with AI..

  34. Justin Franks

    May 10, 2023 at 5:34 pm

    I know that my Iphone when compared to “having AI with you everywhere, all the time” is similar in a sense. But, I’m getting some BIG TIME1984 BIG BROTHER VIBES right now… I know I’m not the only one!

  35. Kunal Verma

    May 10, 2023 at 5:35 pm

    You can keep transforming people’s lives. I will be living in a secluded place without technology sipping Corona extra away from this bs. While you and the rest of the tech giants steal people’s data and make millions.

  36. Jordan Weaver

    May 10, 2023 at 6:07 pm

    An AI assistant is either going on people phones or inside their heads. I don’t predict anyone carrying around anything other than their phones unless it’s a straight up brain interface.

  37. William

    May 10, 2023 at 6:12 pm

    It’s a pocket protector vs a watch

  38. Rick Sanchez

    May 10, 2023 at 6:41 pm

    Personally I prefer people not to hear me speak to an AI and definetly not hear the AI talk back + a screen can offer you much more information than speech ever will. So no

  39. Ashwini K

    May 10, 2023 at 6:53 pm

    most boring ted talk I ever watched

  40. Anselmo Rosa

    May 10, 2023 at 7:25 pm

    It seems all my dreams are coming true. Soon, before 2080 I think, there will be a digital copy of myself, living inside a synthetic body. Ray Kurzweil was right, and the singularity is already here

  41. Dkizzle16

    May 10, 2023 at 7:28 pm

    when can I buy it?

  42. Chris Hruska

    May 10, 2023 at 7:35 pm

    this is not a thing that anyone will buy. not even close. just have a phone do these things. do not waste money developing this device any more. its like something from a scifi movie from the 70s. an AI assistant in your pocket. ok but not this thing. not ever. nope. even Quibi wasn’t this silly of an idea and I called its downfall from the beginning. I even contacted them with a solution and they didn’t wanna hear it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  43. William Zanin

    May 10, 2023 at 7:56 pm

    Amazing

  44. Dan

    May 10, 2023 at 7:57 pm

    I’m 100% in favor of a disappearing computer…and internet. Choose reality. It’s much more interesting and is the cure for ai.

  45. kll.c

    May 10, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    artificial sincerity is scary

  46. John Snow

    May 10, 2023 at 8:51 pm

    Um…Google Assistant does all of these things with the press of a button also. There is absolutely nothing special about this.

  47. The Critic

    May 10, 2023 at 9:04 pm

    Fascinating 🤔. In the “Total Recall” reboot movie, we had a similar concept being played out. All we need are a Bluetooth UI and a strong wifi connection. What will we think of next? 🤔🤔

  48. Michał Poniedzielski

    May 10, 2023 at 9:14 pm

    Ummm, excuse me, since WHEN tedtalks became a place for lame ‘sharing’ of emotionally raped commercial bullshit?

  49. Jacob Hull

    May 10, 2023 at 9:26 pm

    Can’t believe he answered the phone on stage, so unprofessional

  50. Rafael Alencar

    May 11, 2023 at 9:53 am

    This is a really contrived demo and examples of usage. How would you use this when you’re at work or at a meeting? At a movie theater? Just anywhere where you don’t want to be speaking or have audio blasting out?

    The French translation happened without any prompt whatsoever. How did it know that he wanted to translate that to French? That’s not a real demo at all.

    How could I read my emails from that? Will I have to listen for the device to read all of them? How about messages, Slack, etc? How would I do my banking on that? How do I view photos and videos I recorded?

    Smartphones are so ubiquitous because they are really good at what they do. If you’re claiming to replace them with something new it needs to 10x better than that. I don’t see this being it.

  51. Bart Meyskens

    May 11, 2023 at 10:39 am

    Star Trek !

  52. Mary Hausdorf

    May 11, 2023 at 10:50 am

    I didn’t ask AI, I asked God and he said this
    Jeremiah 18
    King James Version
    18 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

    2 Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

    3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

    4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

    5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

    7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

    8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

    9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

    10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

    11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

    12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

    13 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

    14 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

    15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;

    16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

    17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

    18 Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

    19 Give heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.

    20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

    21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

    23 Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

  53. Brett s

    May 11, 2023 at 10:51 am

    Its easier, faster and likely cheaper to use a smartphone.

    Voice only interface is not a step forward imo. I dont want to talk out loud to interface and wait 2-3 seconds for a response, also out loud.

    Personally i think AR glasses paired with a finger ring you control with your thumb is the next step.

    THEN you wont need a smartphone anymore.

    All your visual information is right in front of your eyes, along with the rest of the world, and DISCRETE interfacing.

    Its an impressive tech demo, but not practical, no one wants to use their device out loud where everyone can hear what you’re doing.

  54. Michele Azzu

    May 11, 2023 at 11:29 am

    ZZZZZZZZZZZZ 🥱

  55. Pierre CH

    May 11, 2023 at 11:29 am

    A lot of people will never talk to AI in public, it’s like sharing your browser history and all your dumb questions constantly. Smartphones are here to stay.

  56. digital.vote

    May 11, 2023 at 11:29 am

    Tech has become a religion

  57. LostMekkaSoft

    May 11, 2023 at 11:34 am

    i wonder how they want to tackle the privacy issue, because powerful, multimodal language models that can reason about complex things require huge data centers to be stored and used. this “personal ai” doesnt fit in your pocket, and it wont any time soon, if ever. so you have to send all the collected perception data to a data center and trust the providers to not misappropriate it, which is directly conflicting with their financial incentives…
    i dont want to dismiss the technology; i think this will be great if done right. but there needs to be regulation in place to make sure those ai providers are not turning this into a mass surveillance system. we should always ask ourselves how these new technologies can be exploited and used against us, so we are better prepared when the technology actually arrives.

  58. Epsilion

    May 11, 2023 at 11:51 am

    Wow, he used virtual asistant module in his front pocket.
    He showed us nothing new

  59. Thato Ryan Khwinana

    May 11, 2023 at 12:10 pm

    Ex Machina unlocked 🔓

  60. ak

    May 11, 2023 at 12:53 pm

    I can see some potential with this…

  61. Chaz Dawn

    May 11, 2023 at 12:54 pm

    Some people need tactile input devices, people who lose speech, or hearing. This is a fascinating topic but eventually the device needs to be plugged into us or visa versa.

  62. Be Amazing

    May 11, 2023 at 12:59 pm

    YIIPPPEEE!!! NOW big brother can follow us and listen to us 24-7 !!!!

  63. iknujbyhvtgcrfxedw

    May 11, 2023 at 2:04 pm

    sorry

  64. Sz L

    May 11, 2023 at 3:09 pm

    Is it radical? Been already since 5 years..

  65. Ak Ben

    May 11, 2023 at 3:33 pm

    Using “compute” as a noun is really bugging me

  66. J. W. Bjerk

    May 11, 2023 at 3:45 pm

    So it is a roughly phone-sized device that sticks out of the top of a custom-designed jacket pocket?

    Why would I want a custom device for this when it could be an app on my phone that sticks out of the top of a custom-designed jacket pocket, and I still have a screen for when I want one?

  67. smetlje sm

    May 11, 2023 at 4:37 pm

    I am struggling to find any substance shown or even specifically described in this video…
    We really need tk get back into “prototype first then money ” economy and away from these vapourware, CGI at best snakeoil idea sellers…

  68. Patrick Charpenet

    May 11, 2023 at 5:01 pm

    Was that French?😅

  69. Chinedu Opara

    May 11, 2023 at 5:54 pm

    No one’s gonna ask the obvious? The same question drives 95% of tech innovation? No one’s gonna ask? OK fine, I’ll be “that guy”. So here’s the question: _Can we f*ck it?_ 😂

  70. Michael Thurman

    May 11, 2023 at 7:09 pm

    I think if they can use the camera to see and interpret Sign Language and ‘speak’ in the speakers tailored AI voice, that would be the most impressive use of that technology. Double points if the person listening does the ‘reading’ of the hands and gestures and it speaks to them in the speakers voice.

  71. Ruckus Lee

    May 11, 2023 at 7:19 pm

    Is that an AI in your shirt pocket? Your own unique, responsible, trustworthy AI?

    It’s the vocabulary choice (“envisions future”, “natural”, “deeply profound”, “responsible”, “in service to us”, “built on trust”, “good AI” “humane” “intuitive”)… and the personalized delivery of the “innovator” and “entrepreneur” which sells the product… and spreads propaganda. Transcribed, for comprehension often improves with reading the spoken words.

    Note the name: Humane

    “INVISIBLE DEVICES feel so NATURAL to use that you almost forget about their existence…. This is not a deep fake. In fact, it’s DEEPLY PROFOUND. This is my AI giving me the ability to speak any language and you having the chance to hear me speak that language in MY OWN EMOTION and MY OWN VOICE [No, it’s not you, but a simulation of you.] … This is moving away from the experiments that make us all concerned about the direction compute is going in. But it’s instead using technology to create REAL, RESPONSIBLE compute products that are IN SERVICE TO US and BUILT ON TRUST. This is GOOD AI in action…. The result almost feels like the ENTIRE WORLD becomes your operating system. And when compute disappears IT ALLOWS US to get back to WHAT REALLY MATTERS: a NEW ability to be present.”

    “The more you use our device powered by AI, the more we can help you in all times of need. YOUR AI EFFECTIVELY BECOMES AN EVER-EVOLVING PERSONALIZED FORM OF MEMORY. And we think that’s amazing… MY AI KNOWS WHAT’S BEST FOR ME. Your AI figures out what you need at the speed of thought… As AI advances we will see how it will transform nearly every aspect of our lives. In ways that will seem unimaginable right now… More humane, intuitive interactions [“with the world around you”] that are screenless, seamless AND SENSING… reimagining the human-technology relationship… IT’S THE WORLD THAT WE WANT TO LIVE IN… where technology not only helps YOU get back into the world but enhances OUR ability to do so. The future of technology might almost be invisible.”

    This is definitive evil. 24/7 surveillance to THEIR cloud via your shirt pocket while atrophying whatever’s left of your human brain. Why bother learning languages or reading maps and books or analyzing information? Has your ability to discourse been reduced to 280 alpha-numerical characters and colorful pictograms? This “GOOD AI” does it all and will, reassuringly, “sculpt tailored responses in your own voice and in the context of your life.” Apparently, deconstructing humans into data for harvesting into profit hasn’t satisfied their greed.

    5:25 Begins here with his infant daughter as test subject.

  72. Sad Joke

    May 11, 2023 at 8:06 pm

    So it’s a jacket?

  73. MrLoveOneAnother

    May 11, 2023 at 8:13 pm

    no one cares about tech, they care about brand association

  74. Stillakilla

    May 11, 2023 at 9:27 pm

    Why is no one asking the good questions? Or asking what the user wants? They claim to be aware of their surroundings. But are they?

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