The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app

Post by fragmede » Thu, May 02, 2024, 12:48 AM UTC

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #197

AlexandrB wrote: post #192

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I think at the very least it's a kind of trend-chasing. If the AI hype dies down a bit will Rabbit AI continue supporting their product and customers or are they going to wipe their online presence and move on to the next trend like with the NFT thing?

I don't even think in this case it's a matter of the AI hype dying down (though it is, and will continue to do so as products like these fail to get actually useful) I think this is just a complete nonstarter. Like, there's just nothing here that isn't better executed with existing tech. If I want to ask my phone to order a pizza, I can set that up in a lot of apps with Siri shortcuts, or, and far more likely, just o…

Post by fragmede » Thu, May 02, 2024, 12:57 AM UTC

brk wrote: post #216

fragmede wrote: post #215

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imo that laser display is awesome and I want one, but it's hobbled by the software. I'd gladly pay $700 if it was open and wasn't locked to their ecosystem.

Even considering it does not appear to work well in bright settings, and can't map the laser beam to uneven surfaces? Conceptually, the idea could be interesting, but the implementation shown appears that it would not work well in most real life settings.

Post by aledalgrande » Thu, May 02, 2024, 1:03 AM UTC

dyauspitr wrote: post #188

sniggers wrote: post #183

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Are you referring to this? https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins Rabbit's approach is one-sided (train their model to generate needed API calls, and maybe also perform Selenium-style simulated actions?) which should make it more flexible if inherently less reliable than dedicated plugins written by developers from the apps looking to be called via AI

Having to rely on one company to train their API calls makes it less flexible and less reliable except maybe for the largest apps. Even if they did it better than chatGPT (and I don’t think they can), that would be the thinnest of moats.

Post by ToucanLoucan » Thu, May 02, 2024, 1:08 AM UTC

fragmede wrote: post #231

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #197

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I don't even think in this case it's a matter of the AI hype dying down (though it is, and will continue to do so as products like these fail to get actually useful) I think this is just a complete nonstarter. Like, there's just nothing here that isn't better executed with existing tech. If I want to ask my phone to order a pizza, I can set that up in a lot of apps with Siri shortcuts, or, and far more likely, just o…

> Rabbit is a regression to ordering things with a phone, except instead of talking to a person, you're talking to a robot. > I just, I cannot fathom who wants this. If that doesn't make a difference to you, you're not the target market. It truely doesn't for some, but for others, it does!

Post by dmsayer » Thu, May 02, 2024, 1:11 AM UTC

WeylandYutani wrote: post #225

starky wrote: post #194

I saw this news and my reaction was, "Of course it is, doing anything else would be stupid." But that on its own doesn't mean it could just be a phone app if the hardware adds something useful to the way the user interacts with it. For example, old Sony mirrorless cameras just ran Android under the hood but the specific hardware is what made those products, not the OS. As a hardware person, both the Rabbit R1 and the…

There was an attempt with folding phones. Is that taking off beyond the "I have too much money" crowd?