Rabbit R1 review: somehow worse?

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Publicado 2024-05-04
The adorable, whimsical and a very orange Rabbit R1 is here and it left us wondering if these AI-powered gadgets are even a good idea. The most intriguing tech in the R1 is what Rabbit calls the “Large Action Model”. Where a large language model, or LAM, is all about analyzing and creating text, the LAM is supposed to be about doing stuff. But in our week-long testing, the R1 has consistently proven to be underwhelming, unpredictable and often wrong and entirely pointless.

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00:00 Intro
01:30 Music & podcasts (Spotify)
02:45 LAM (Large Action Model) and R1 apps
05:05 Things R1 can’t do (timer, reminders, calendar, e-mail, GPS)
06:45 Demos (Vision, scene recognition, ChatGPT)
09:10 R1 or Humane AI Pin or smartphone?
10:03 Hardware, design and UX (scroll wheel, touch screen)
12:07 Voice recorder
12:52 Conclusion

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Todos los comentarios (21)
  • @dudebro777
    These gadgets feel like things from the 80s when smartphones weren't invented yet, and everybody wished for a future with a thing like a smartphone that can do everything.
  • I think you're the only channel who managed to capture the absolute neon-ness of the rabbit
  • This is so close to being a tamagotchi for adults. If they just made a little rabbit interactive. And made you feed it regularly.
  • @kazuabs
    I can't believe the infamous trend in gaming where everything is incomplete, underbaked and overpromised are becoming more and more common in our daily lives smh :/
  • @sumi9735
    This device gets stupider when you find out that “rabbitOS” is actually just an android app whose apk got leaked a few days ago so the R1 is just a cheap android 13 device that can only run a single poorly developed app
  • @xNiqueish
    "Vibe is the same, words are wrong" is the perfect summary of LLMs.
  • @jacsctogra
    The drawn out "I cannoooot" in the intro killed me 💀
  • Like Dave2D said, removing the scroll will make it a phone, a bad phone, which I think is hilarious.
  • @marctech1996
    1:27 Missed an opportunity to add the “I did nooooot. Oh hi Mark” scene from The Room. The Rabbit says “I cannooooot” in the exact same tone lol
  • @T2star
    What a devastating review of the rabbit (and recently the humane AI pin). But it is really frustrating no one is bluntly saying “these companies are liars”. Because they promised so much more usability. If it can’t order a pizza or book your trip, then it’s a complete lie.
  • @canopus5498
    this is like modern tech boiled down to a handheld design. Selling you something you don't need, you never wanted, makes no sense, and doesn't work. A gizmo that presents to solve problems you don't even have, and still fails. A Smartphone without features
  • looking at a touch screen device playing music, trying to pause it - we've solved this, it's a damn button on the screen. The absolutism of these products is just the dumbest thing.
  • These app developers are forgetting that necessity is the mother of invention. Without necessity, the invention is motherless. Thus, the invention is a bastard.
  • @NaterFernat
    Dude... those AI gadgets, you can easily see the scam from miles away before it reaches you.
  • @clownonabike
    The founders of Rabbit actually rugged and left an NFT gaming project before starting Rabbit just a year ago.
  • @marctech1996
    This guy is my favorite Verge reviewer in a while
  • So it doesn't do anything my smartphone can't do. And it does those things much worse than my phone. What's the point of it?