| 25 is a very lovable number, I don't know why but I meet this number a lot in my life. It's a quarter, it's a golden age, it's a threshold for DiCaprio's girlfriends, it's an odd yet incredible number. Kind of love it. How do you feel about it? The highlights of the week:- Rabbit R1 has shipped and it's looking grim 💀
People got their devices and it seems it's kind of shit to use. It is an android app on an android device who's battery dies in 2 hours, and somebody already unpacked it and installed it on an iPhone, even modified it. 😂 - Nothing Buds with integrated ChatGPT
The title says it all. You can ask questions and interact with ChatGPT with your earbuds. Neat! But is this innovation or just another gimmick?
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| Rabbit R1 has shipped and it's looking grim 💀Last week the Rabbit R1, started shipping to people, and everybody started unpacking what's locked in that package. It is clear that this had an ambition, but from day 1 everybody understood, it has to be an app. Yet nobody's gonna buy an app for $200. So now that people got hands-on it, what does it feel to own one? - The battery dies in 2 hours. Similar to the Humane AI Pin the device dies in basically no time. You have to charge it multiple times a day 💩
- The latency is tremendous. I remember in the demo last year, their demo was really cool, it was snappy and responded almost instantly. From the reviews it seems that the device takes it's time to reply ⏳. That was a killer feature, and I thought they're going to put a model on device, and use that instead of on cloud query evaluation. That'd justify the device.
- The control implementation is really bad as well. I mean the idea is suuuper cool, I like an analog control wheel that lets you access quickly your desired place instead of wiping your screen. I find this brilliant!
R1 did not deliver 😓. Their implementation is simply incomplete. It is slow, inaccurate, sluggish and simply painful to use. If you've ever used an iPod Classic, you know how good that wheel was. That's what this device should've had. - Their LAM (Large Action Model) they were bragging about, is as raw as the fish swimming in the ocean 🍣. It hardly does the activities it was promised to do. All it can do is navigate a couple of apps, if it doesn't hallucinate.
Personally I think, this is barely a beta product, more like an alpha, yet to be given to the testers. - Lastly a developer from NYC, @WillHobick, has unpacked the android app that is running on the Rabbit R1, and installed it on an iPhone, and on the web, he then even customized the colors and added more functionality to it, to show how it's done. That's funny because it took em 6 months to deliver a product, and it took 1 week to convert it to a fully functional cross platform app. 😅Investors money spent poorly, running on top of the AI Hype. 💸
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| Nothing Buds with ChatGPTIf you didn't know, Nothing is a company that builds consumer tech, they build 2 phones so far, and this is their second generation of ear buds. The market for consumer tech is pretty tough these days, and it's really hard to stand-out in the crowd. So they're always hunting for something. Now look, I understand I just spilled shit over an AI product, HOWEVER, I think this is the right way to build an AI product. First of all they don't charge 200$ for an app, but a fair price of ~$100 for their bluetooth buds with noise canceling and a cool looking design, with an extra feature of Voice activated ChatGPT. In my opinion, AI products should really augment and improve already existing tools but not try and replace them completely. It does create niche products but hey, that's I know this is not that futuristic, and is merely different to a voice assistant, but hey competition makes humans progress.
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