I’m not some tech genius who could spot a fake product a hundred miles away. I’m just not a gullible dumbass
I’m out of the loop what tech gizmo startups? Are people buying unitasking devices that a smartphone can do?
The device pictured is the Rabbit R1, an alleged “AI assistant” that’s supposed to do all the shit that the original pitches for Siri and OK Google were supposed to do; “Order me an uber”, “Find me a restaurant nearby”, etc. Turns out it’s just chatGPT with a few autoclick scripts bolted on. Not only does it work worse than a smartphone for any given task, it also works worse than existing non-AI voice assistants.
The things were recently released but idk if anyone has actually bought them l.
Pretty sure quite a few people got in on the R1 because it was cheap ($200) and designed by Teenage Engineering which people fucking love for some reason.
yep. I don’t get it, like at all. Sure if it was a cute design and actually was a useful concept I could see it, but a cute design for a worthless product just makes me angrier, it doesn’t mitigate the functionality issues at all
unitasking devices that do stuff a smartphone can do are cool actually, this is a device that claims and fails to do what a smartphone can do, or provide its own compelling feature-set at all. a scam considering how underbaked it is.
I mean the main transgression here is that it’s literally just a slighly altered android ROM that hides the fact that it runs Android. It could literally have been a free app on your smartphone.
A unitasking device is fine, as long as it’s doing something that could not be done by the multitasking device we already hurt the environment to create. Or it does so more power efficiently, or even offload a task that is burdensome for your phone to another device. This does none of those things, it just sends your voice request to chatgpt.
It also has dog shit battery life, so that’s another knock.
