I don’t see the allure here. It’s nothing but an ai assistant that’s already on every phone. The interaction angle is not clean at all. I hear Apple is going to release something similar. Very curious to see how that goes, I am extremely pessimistic on that one. Let’s see
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#12I wanna do this but with a locally running LLM. They’re getting better and better. Can’t wait for something like Taalas to ship custom LLM hardware for personal use
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#13Why design a website with the box on the bottom left covering the text you want us to read? Crazy.
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#14What this really shows is how fragile "smart" devices are- good hardware, but useless once the cloud goes away. Local first + open systems feel like a preference and more like a necessity now. Also, agree on latency- even small delays feel very noticeable in a robot.
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#15Creepy AF. I’d much rather just have a display and perhaps a bodyless voice
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#16Having access to source + modular hardware is what made this salvageable. Without that, it’s e-waste.
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#17What makes this a robot? Feel like the classical term “robot” over “bot” implies some sort of locomotion or at least actuation
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#18People really are pushing the word "AI" everywhere. Robot already implies AI unless we are now assuming that AI = LLM.
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#19Very cool, but won’t use proprietary LLMs for home ever. Can only trust open source models
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#20What makes this a robot? Feel like the classical term “robot” over “bot” implies some sort of locomotion or at least actuation
From the blog post, it appears that the eyes and head have some amount of actuation. So it meets the robot criteria, even if just barely.