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Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 03 May 2024
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The AI boom in a nutshell. Repackaged software and content with a shiny AI coat of paint. Even the AI itself is often just repackaged chatgpt.
Repackaging ChatGPT is arguably a very nice potential value add, because going to a website is not always very convenient. But it needs to be done right to convince users to use a new method to access ChatGPT instead of just using their website.
What's interesting about this device is that it (supposedly) learns how apps work and how people use them, so if you ask it something that requires using an app it could do it.
So while it might be "just an android app", if it does what's advertised that would be impressive.
Apps are designed to be easy to use. If this device works as advertised (and that's a huge if), then it wouldn't offer much in the way of convenience anyway. From what I've been reading, it doesn't work well at all.
Reviewers are saying it is not able to do this, along with several other promised features.
perplexity for this device. still, excited to get my pre-order if only to add to my teenage engineering collection
It certainly looks sleek. Too bad that's all it has in its favor.
must be a cool device to jailbreak and mess around with just for the sake of it tho
it has a very unique form factor after all
Unless you have tons of money, why preorder? Just wait for the company to inevitably go under and people start reselling their now-useless devices, and then scoop as many as you want from Ebay. Even if the company survives for a while, the functionality is so underwhelming they might start getting rid of them way sooner.
The company makes other things I don't think they will go under of this fails