Latest / Logosofia no Dia a Dia
The $700 Pin and Other AI Flops
What separates a true flop from a mere disappointment? In this episode, we put five of the biggest AI misfires of the modern boom on trial — the Humane AI Pin, the Rabbit R1, GPT-4.5, Sora, and Gemini's image generator — and ask what the gap between promise and reality actually tells us. Along the way: a $700 lapel pin that overheated doing nothing, a $199 device that mistook a dog toy for a tomato and said it was safe to eat, and a flagship model whose real significance was the signal it sent about scaling. At the end, we have to crown the single biggest flop of the boom — and one of us has…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.