Comment by ryandrake
5 months ago
Gruber[1] posted that Bloomberg reported[2]: "Humane’s team, including founders Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, will form a new division at HP to help integrate artificial intelligence into the company’s personal computers, printers and connected conference rooms, said Tuan Tran, who leads HP’s AI initiatives."
So they'll hang around as some sort of director-level Thought Leaders or something? Sounds like a safe and lucrative landing.
2: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-18/hp-116-mi...
HP AI-enabled printer?
What, did the state of California ask them to develop a new punishment for tech workers convicted of murder? Is Hans Reiser being tortured with this?
The printer will soon be able to answer your question about ink levels.
In version 2 it will be able to nag^W persuade you to buy genuine HP ink, by reminding you repeatedly the benefits of genuine HP ink.
Surely it's so they can feed error messages like "PC LOAD LETTER" into the model and get a sometimes semi-accurate explanation.
Is this what they call falling upwards?
I would not describe working at HP as upwards personally, I'd rather just go back to consulting
This isn't obvious at all but you can click the star next to an item that's "Linked" on DF (where the title goes to another site) to get a permalink to the item on DF itself! https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/02/18/hp-buys-humane
Oh, wow, that UX is clear as mud. Thanks!
AI Printers, hell yeah brother
Heeyy morning Jeff! Looks like we are still low on yellow ink today, so I'm probably not going to be able print anything for you. But if you'd like I could order a new cartridge set direct from HP? Would you like me to go ahead with that order or remind you in 15 minutes with another friendly greeting?
If you like I could call you on your cell to remind you, send you a text, email you, or I could just shout loudly from right here in printer!
It’s a printer, obviously the ai will be printing out this message in cyan with a yellow highlight to emphasize the urgency of the matter.
Office Spaceing my printer once it starts to do this
Jeff: "Please print two copies of my book report"
HP Printer: "I'm sorry Jeff, I'm afraid I can't do that"
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The tracking dots that printers print on their copies are printed in yellow. No wonder the yellow ink is empty.
Still steaming over the porn you printed yesterday Jeff, any more where that came from?
Hey, now, don't give Brother any ideas!
That's why cylons rebel. "They look and feel like printers. Some are programmed to think they are printer."
Which means they'll be shoved into an office for a year before being encouraged to move on. There's not really a role there for them, they were a company that made a chatgpt wrapper, the idea that they have a clue how to run an actual AI based operation is laughable.
HP printers are already some of the most anti-consumer printers on the market. Can't wait to see what this group of people manages to achieve. /s