Rabbit Inc. Faked Their Demo (Again)
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Rabbit Inc. Faked Their Demo (Again)
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#3I don’t know, it was a pretty simple demo (just audio recording, transcription, and summarizing) so would it really be worth faking? The only things the article mentions are the typo (which actually makes me think it’s more likely to be real than faked) and the audio mismatch (which he explains on twitter was simply because he clicked an earlier recording accidentally - makes sense, I would do a dry run before actually recording the demo too).
Re: Rabbit Inc. Faked Their Demo (Again)
#4A copy-text typo in a pre-production UI seems totally fine?
The audio clip mismatch is a bit more questionable, but the simplest explanation is that they recorded two takes of the demo, and accidentally played back the clip from the previous take.
The only really damning thing is that this is something Siri could do a decade ago.
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#5Not clearing them from their wrong, but it's worth mentioning that Steve Jobs demo'ed the iPhone while many features were still in development / unstable - he had to follow a "golden path" or else the demo iPhone would likely crash.
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#7This seems like an overly aggressive article?
I'm not sure if all exposes are like this, but they seem to be assuming a lot on very little evidence.
IMO having a bit of respect/empathy for a startup is a good thing...
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#8Seems like a typical MediaTek gadget like the Android-based pocket translators that you can bring with you in travel.
No reason to think it's not possible or fake ? and otherwise it's very close to being real and doable.
The device seems like a recorder + some speech transcription (probably open-source like whisper or similar), nothing really crazy or impossible.
Re: Rabbit Inc. Faked Their Demo (Again)
#9Not clearing them from their wrong, but it's worth mentioning that Steve Jobs demo'ed the iPhone while many features were still in development / unstable - he had to follow a "golden path" or else the demo iPhone would likely crash.
A golden path is not a fake demo. These things are not the same.
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