Nominee for Claim Chowder of the Year 2024: Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2023 Award for Humane’s AI Pin
Apr 16, 2024 - daringfireball.net
The article criticizes Time Magazine's decision to award Humane's AI Pin as one of the Best Inventions of 2023, despite the product not being shipped until five months after the publication. The author finds this decision peculiar and even more so now that the product has been released and is predicted to be a significant failure, comparable to the infamous Edsel.
The author suggests that the award may have been influenced by conflicts of interest, as Marc and Lynne Benioff, co-chairs and owners of Time, are also investors in Humane. The article was written on Monday, 15 April 2024, after the product had been shipped.
Key takeaways:
The article nominates Time Magazine's award for Humane's AI Pin as the 'Claim Chowder of the Year 2024'.
The author finds it strange that Time would award a product that was not yet shipped at the time of publication.
The AI Pin has now shipped and is predicted to be a failure, making the award seem even more odd.
The article suggests that the award may be influenced by the fact that Time's co-chairs and owners, Marc and Lynne Benioff, are investors in Humane.
