Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable

AI in a Box. But a different box.
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R1 provided by Rabbit for review.
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0:00 Intro
0:26 AI In A Box
3:40 It’s Also Bad
7:07 $200
9:56 Large Action Model
14:06 What Are We Doing Here?
16:42 FUTURE

[@atorrance]

Marques is in his "calling out shitty tech" Era and I'm here for it.

[@YouTubetail]

Marques haha 😂

[@notsuitcase]

facts man I agree

[@shaolinrasta2289]

Real shit!!!!

[@ratuldeoun7228]

Marques should make this into a series 😂

[@MrDacedric]

I think we're just in a release of shitty tech era

[@savagehunter4711]

These AI boxes feel like a product people would use in an alternate universe where smart phones are still being developed

[@whophd]

Fascinating And yet, what if that world exists a long way ahead I like open-mind thinking as a rule. But will it be VR/AR sunglasses etc, or …

[@Tlll123]

the alternative universe where AI boomed before iPhone so we end up with Nokia 5310 with Siri

[@Mark-nh7zg]

Exactly my thought. These devices would be cool 15 years ago

[@KingZu555]

I just hope these products lead to us being less disconnected as a society. I like the idea of having a pocket companion that does everything for you, but only if it actually works.

[@GamesFromSpace]

It would be on Star Trek in the 1960s.

[@lbgonpokeit]

Most polite "this product is crap" I've ever seen lmao

[@gustavoje10]

Thanks, I was scrolling to read comments while on min 3. This is all I need to know to move on with my life.

[@TheEngineeringFamily]

For people complaining about Marques' lack of love for the Rabbit R1, I'll say this... it is a heck of a lot easier, and more popular, to give a glowing review than to be honest and say that a product sucks. Kudos to MKHBD for calling a spade a spade.

[@PT-mj3bk]

With Fisker Ocean he had no idea what he was talking about

[@squidge903]

​@@PT-mj3bk butthurt fanboy, and I don't even know ya

[@olotocolo]

why the hell would or should he have love for quarter-baked cheap useless toy product like rabbit? Make good product - get good review. It's earned not given.

[@Galf506]

I wish MKBHD was consistent though. It's no secret that staying in the good grace of Apple requires unquestionable loyalty, but I think Marques is mature enough to spread his wings and start being sincere with everything he analyzes. It's good that he's doing these pretty deep videos on such shallow tech, the production quality is excellent, as is the presentation. But he'll happily turn around and praise Apple Wheels or something equally useless just because he doesn't want to bite the hand that fed him :/

[@komibim]

​@@Galf506who fed who? where do u get the conclusion that he's paid by apple?

[@slobros5186]

The use case of asking it questions is completely overshadowed by the fact that you need to look up every answer yourself to verify that it wasn’t hallucinated

[@ttrreebboorr22000066]

It's almost like LLMs aren't useful for looking up facts

[@patrykkorzeniewski57]

these products would work if smartphones didn't already exist.

[@YukiGibson]

Welcome to AI lmao

[@whothou]

this part. Smart phones are op

[@LaigledeMeaux]

I'm seeing more and more people answering questions in forums with AI crap and it's so frustrating. "Well, I asked [insert AI name here] and it said this was the correct answer." Ok? And? wheres the source? At least if I google something I can see multiple answers. Or look it up on Wikipedia and it will give me the direct sources for everything. I feel like I'm turning into a Ludite with every passing moment that AI is becoming more popular.

[@IkerUnzu]

I don’t understand what they’re trying to accomplish. We already have phones that can do all that in seconds.

[@robojimtv]

I'm sure we'll get even more AI trickery after WWDC or IO

[@augustortiz]

It’s called: grifting on tech bros who want the most cutting edge tech for clout (Even if it’s useless).

[@sorryi6685]

Scam the fossils, NPCs and alogrithim at wall street. They will give you free money if you say AI

[@WikiPeoples]

@@tokyowwww ok shill

[@harankarthick5589]

Just make as much money as possible with investors/stocks and run. That’s the only plan.

[@rodylima5947]

Marques is doing a great job. Without these kind of reviews, selling unfinished products would become the new normal.

[@RaveN_EDM]

Its nothing new I remember when PDAs first came out and most of them were just worst versions of laptops with barely any extra functionality.

[@KingLich451]

when there is demand, there will be product.

[@rodylima5947]

@@KingLich451 Demand for bad products decrease with good information sources

[@d_mb]

There is no demand for this thing

[@jackpijjin4088]

Reminder that TE had a really cool little music workstation for around $850, took it off the market, put it back up for like $1200, then took it off AGAIN, then re-relisted it AGAIN for over $2000. Same exact unit with very few updated features and the same 'intentional limitations' as the original unit.

[@DoctorSoctopus]

Fictitious capital go brrr

[@jackpijjin4088]

@DoctorSoctopus Yeah. That's not even 'supply and demand' economy, it's just greed.

[@goldbrick2563]

I have their little boombox unit, its nice. I paid 650...probably $400 is the right price

[@patfov]

This AI-in-a-box assistant trend is like selling MP3 players in a smartphone era

[@itjustyouraveragecanadian9604]

MP3 players have some good usecases though

[@TheRanscat]

Wrong because mp3 players can actually be useful, phones don't have an aux anymore, and even the ones that do, don't have enough power or great audio quality. These AI boxes are useless.

[@JamesR624]

Yep. These things are bigger nuggets than CRAIG stuff.

[@ray89520]

No, MP3 players to their job well. It's limited but if that's what are you calling for, it's great. These Ai assistants without all the context are not helping. And if you need Internet anyway, why should I not just pick my phone anyway?

[@gutsbobbles7973]

​@@JamesR624but can they survive the #1 grit

[@6yjjk]

Basic UI/UX fail: You ask it a question, and the rabbit just sits there bouncing in the silence as if it hasn't heard you. It would be simple to change the animation to show that it's heard and is working on it, which would make that awkward pause feel so much shorter.

[@Breeze926]

They literally have a character that could reflect the action the device is doing but they just don't.

Plus typing out the answer in really small size text because there is no room left because the bouncing rabbit takes up most of the screen? Wtf?

[@arnovgogoi5958]

I am wrapping around my head that you have to use both hands to increase/decrease your brightness.

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

I think it was designed by an AI.

[@MrJorgeEnriqueTorres]

The animation changes when it is "hearing" you.

[@lollollin]

When you see the Rabbit R1 turned off comments on their videos and shorts you know what is going on and the quality of this product .

[@rushinburrito]

Apple also turns off comments on a lot of their videos...

[@lukashuth9730]

I have the feeling, that companies publish unfinished things, just to be able to go with the trend as fast as possible

[@hoaacres7084]

Yeah its a fact

[@gillcaz]

I was thinking during the "alpha release" rant; why are people even putting their cash down on demonstrable trash? And you just answered my question.

[@nezzee]

Marques has no chill with these titles lately 😂

[@chinesesparrows]

He who reviews the barely reviewable

[@JavierHerrerag]

As he should.

[@SleekFinds]

I like it

[@ivansentanu3498]

it shows there are no actual good "new" product lately

[@dannyize]

Marques doesn't squeal with delight. {*koff* ijustine}

[@jredubr]

Reviews are NOT advertisements. Thanks for being genuine and honest.

[@ChineseWinnie]

you crazzy if you think that, reviewing a product for millions is an advertisement for the company, even if its not directly meant to be.

[@SoloVentureExplorer]

I second this. Reviews should be honest and genuine.

[@princess_niya2407]

It technically is it’s bringing attention to the product wether it’s a good or bad review at the end of the day people are going to make their own choices on if they should buy it

[@JustinPyo]

Stop glazing...

[@SilveniumTheDrifter]

Agreed!

[@checkmate5338]

$200 for an app

[@Baleur]

$200 is outrageous. I just got a Samsung Tab A9+ (a twelve incher) for $220 and its absolutely brilliant. It can do everything a phone can, on a huge vibrant screen, and i can download any and all AI apps ever developed for android (guaranteed more features than the R1 has), and i can play games on it, watch netflix, message friends, fly my drone with it as the display, and livestream. And if i want to use more sophisticated AI tools, i can run Parsec to remotely control my home desktop PC (and its local AI models, for image generation or text prompting). And yes, "large action models" can exist locally on your own pc with very very little Pyton knowlede (two hours of tutorials and you can set up your own environment with multiple AI agents collaborating to solve tasks). I can even, in this way, use my tablet to remotely edit videos in Davinci Resolve. Oh but i need an internet connection to do that? Yes, and the R1 needs a connection to the cloud as well.. Tell me again why i'd pay $200 for an R1 Rabbit? Because it fits in my pocket? My phone does.

[@imnugget8085]

Umm it's $600 in some places

[@ayebing]

Don’t let unfinished/broken products become the new normal. That’s what they want. Keep doing these.

[@STUNRICK]

This, million times agree!

[@erik3371]

Ah yes "they". I promise "they" have you exactly were they want already. So i wouldn't worry about shitty products trying to blind you. I promise you are are already blind.

[@elwa_chin8604]

nobody would have bought it anyways

[@ayebing]

@@elwa_chin8604 it’s not the product itself, it’s the bar they’re trying to set so low that matters.

[@Andy.G8]

@@elwa_chin8604You underestimate consumerism.

[@projectz975]

love an AI buddy that just confidently answers questions wrong, just like having a real friend.

[@msswart9119]

😂❤

[@syyneater]

LOL

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

Yeah, I also love how it allows us to experience what it must be like to have a friend.

[@Iyiouseismouse]

Stop hating… Did you know that the flying aircraft carrier in Avengers is real, but it’s above top secret at Area 51? This thing gives all the info!❤

[@Nothingseen]

An AI that replies to every question with things found in transcripts of the Joe Rogan show will really let people embrace that 'dipshit roomate' relationship. THAT'S a product with a PURPOSE

[@Axencyte]

When I saw the ad for the rabbit box on Twitter I thought it was like an ai tamagotchi and I’m super disappointed that it’s not

[@carljohnston7527]

Just found you because I saw you on Leonlush, and I think you're brilliant! Thank you for your advice and honesty!

[@romulofigueroadiaz480]

The screen being a touch screen was a twist I did NOT see coming.

[@MrTsolar]

A touchscreen has been part of it since the unveil. It's been demoed multiple times.

[@thankmelautner]

SAME LMAO

[@stephenvsawyer]

Ok? ​@@MrTsolar

[@fundoo203]

It's touch. They disable it at some points to make you use the scroll wheel

[@Lifeof728]

M Knight Shamalan twist

[@snazzy]

THANK YOU for calling out the insanely low wheel sensitivity. I thought I was going insane that nobody else was complaining about it. The UI on this is even worse than the Humane Ai Pin and that’s truly an accomplishment.

[@martinqizeaq]

Dave2D already complained about it that stated that the wheel is completely useless when you already have a touch screen on it.

[@BrooklynLuke]

@@Najeeb10003downvoted

[@MethLord]

Requiring users to navigate with a cumbersome scroll wheel, despite the presence of a touchscreen, seems like a deliberate move to degrade the user experience.

[@riley1636]

@@Najeeb10003My advice is, don't focus on subscribers or a fancy camera, focus on content. I saw you only had on video. If you aren't making content people like now, a new camera isn't going to help make it better. You don't want it to become a wasted investment. I admire the enthusiasm, but you should try working with what you have instead of believing you "need" something to get big. I've felt the same thing myself, but it isnt really whats stopping you. It's a tough world in content creation either way. Find a niche and do with what you can.

[@MarioGoatse]

That’s the thing, they built an AI app first, and a physical device second. They should have built a physical device first, and AI second. If they had built a fast, snappy, intuitive physical device, it would be much easier to like. You have to enjoy using something or you’re just going to be annoyed constantly.

[@budgetdadbbqbrewing268]

Having ordered an R1 in hopes of making my life easier both in my professional and personal life, I appreciate your honest, detailed, and balanced review. I will remain hopeful but won’t be majorly disappointed when I receive it this summer. I appreciate you taking the time to do this. Subscribed!

[@aokaze-minotaur]

Jesse: I don't think MKBHD will say this is the worst device he ever reviewed Marques: It's the second worst device I've ever reviewed

[@adarnia]

hahaha!

[@lcynote]

😂

[@indemonic]

Well, it's a really scam-ish product, what would you expect MKBHD say...

[@Fllu]

If he'd be honest, this would be the 4th worst device. 2nd would be cybertruck and third any new iphone. But we all know he's an apple & tesla fanboy. Way to choose when to be honest, only when it fits him.

[@lntg]

@@Fllu Any new iPhone? Sure you're not just anti-apple yourself haha.

[@THEBOLSHEVIK]

For kicks, I took a zoomed-in picture of the coffee arabica plant (which wasn't great, because it was a photo of an LED screen showing an image of an LED screen showing an image), and then used Google Lens. It CORRECTLY identified the plant in less time than the AI had to be wrong.

[@nostalgean]

TFT*

[@mattymerr701]

​@@nostalgean LCD*

[@10goku83]

​@@mattymerr701Papyrus*

[@wotermelon_]

why tf doesn't if just use google lens, that would require it to have android, it would just be fucking phone. The very idea of this thing infuriates me.

[@taherajna]

​@@10goku83 psycho mantis*?

[@3DJapan]

Reminds me of my old video camera's touch screen. The only thing touch is for is for picking a focus point. All the menus have to be navigated and clicked with physical buttons.

[@Master_Bachelor]

Thank you for the great review.

[@SpacesHyper]

I dont get what everyone is talking about, saying "This is mkbhds company killing streak"... Thank you for the honest review Marques!! Appreciate you.

[@ckf36]

It’s so funny. He’s a tech reviewer, reviewing tech and people are flipping tf out

[@mjjjermaine]

+1

[@juniorgalacto17]

Nice bought account and AI picture.

[@BlazeMakesGames]

it's just dumb tech bros being mad that a thing they invested in or bought is crap and don't like hearing other people tell them that lol

[@linhza501]

@@ckf36 You mean Twitter degenerates? I dont think their opinions matter in the slightest

[@StoryMode180]

"What are we even doing here?" is such a great line for where a lot of industries have gone to. Good review, good advice.

[@NickRaven]

"Marques Brownlee MURDERS another AI startup!"

[@SuperSisby]

The start of that made me go "Oh, like what modern-day gaming is like?" Because, yeah, make the game half-way, release it, fix things up along the way, hope you fixed it to where it's what you said it'd be. Which is a pretty smart(?) way to get reviewers off your back, because you can always say "We're not done :)" if they criticize something.

[@vitovitus1391]

Reminds me of Matthew from The Fish Files

[@license_________2________chill]

Matthew Carlson moment

[@braintrust12]

i can answer that: what we're doing is making a bunch of useless crap because there's an endless pile of cash being invested by private equity, and you don't need to actually make anything good to get the money from investors you just have to keep making more AI crap to drive the hype. Hype = a bazillion dollars from investors. The investment money will never go away because it's the only way to outpace inflation right now. But the investment money isn't driving any real sales. I believe this is called, a BUBBLE.

[@user-hm1xq8mb3r]

Thanks for the good review. I can't believe an assistant can't put something on your calendar or anything else. Geez what are they thinking?

[@Nas_Raf]

When I first saw the product, I thought it would be perfect for a kid. I was seriously contemplating buying it for my 7 year old nephew….but he loves setting timers & alarms (which according to the review, this device cannot do), so there goes that idea. Does that mean the Rabbit R1 can’t even cut it as a toy for kids? 😂

[@GeorgeP1066]

The absolutely wild thing is that it's now been revealed that Rabbit is literally just an app running on a modified version of Android. The device they're selling is just an Android device with a single app installed and permanently running. So why didn't they just make an app for Android phones instead? 🙄

[@MrNikolidas]

Because you don't try to impress the tech bros in Silicon Valley with apps anymore, that's sooooo 2010's.

[@cyrollan]

Hey, if engineers wanted to make a product, I say let them have the challenge. Maybe something else will come further down the line.

[@webbopwork6054]

My guess is that that's their way to fund it. People are less accepting of an app being $200 rather than a physical device that they hold, and they don't wanna make it a subscription service or sell data(props on them for making it a one-time purchase). You also get the novelty of having a device just for a task. We could play all our games on phones, but we prefer other portable devices even if your phone is the strongest and you have a controller grip. It being just for gaming makes us find it more novel.

[@FukaiKokoro]

People are less accepting of anything unnecessary and redundant for 200$ doesn't matter if it's an app or not

[@ninjack11]

cuz nobody wanna pay 200$ for an app

[@KevinCragun]

Rabbit sure is lucky that the Humane pin came out before the R1

[@Reelix]

Imagine the pin released in its current state AFTER this and it got reviewed? That would be hilarious :p

[@tdmap2241]

Exactly my thought.

[@IloveElsaofArendelle]

Doesn't mean, that they can get away with such an underdeveloped product. Or making a product for a problem that doesn't exist

[@shangster42]

Some programming guests on the Lex Friedman Podcast (I think the guy that made javascript or something) have stated it's beneficial to put out a half baked product and develop while its being used. And it's kind of a big behind the scenes part of what a lot of our daily apps like maps have done, or things with new ideas in AI. The difference seems to be that the old guard brought some positive breakthroughs at their bumpy inception. Anyways I'd heard this concept a couple of times and it might be a little bit of a culture with those types.

[@jawilli312]

Canceled my preorder on a whim a while back. So glad I did after seeing this - Thanks!

[@Matt..S]

1990: Keep an eye on your tamagochi 2024: Your electric rabbit keeps an eye on you

[@arbitrary_username]

Tamagotchi was more like 1998

[@ZenEx95]

Better if they make a tamagochi, the astetic already good enough

[@Shadowzz.]

Please stop

[@nalaredneb78]

It will tell us when to eat, sleep, and work.

[@Matt..S]

@@nalaredneb78 ~No.~ The shell has spoken! ALL HAIL THE MAGIC CONCH !!! ululululululululluululululululu

[@hrdnmltr]

3:03 when he turns the plant around is so funny, the AI reading a full essay 100% about the wrong plant

[@suzzzzzzzzzzzz]

Should have showed the plant name to that Rabbit 😂😮

[@warrenkawamoto8660]

In this case, AI was correct, and the label on the plant was wrong! Coffea arabica is a coffee plant. Monstera deliciosa was the one he showed in the room.

[@mhakus]

Maybe it would be better if the R1 said, "I THINK it's a ... ", to convey that the answers it gives COULD be wrong; or offer a quantitative value to its answers, such as, 'It's 85% likely to be a.... and 15% likely to be ....'

[@scabby.knees99]

@@warrenkawamoto8660 image search both plants, it is clearly not a Monstera deliciosa

[@patcardello3793]

Been following you through the PDS, and naturally came to give you support since for some reason people are giving you hate for honest reviews. Keep up the good content!

[@alfonsomunozgil7113]

This device remained me to a Pokedex. Pokedex were able to see Pokemons and tell you everything about them and i believe it could answer some questions but that's all it did. It also had a small screen, a camera. Looked pretty similar to be honest. Maybe they got their inspiration from the Pokedex.

[@mohit.kunjir]

“It could have been a app” is the best review for such boxes

[@rafaelgaiarsa6448]

That's because it... IS... An app. An old one too. These are mind boggling.

[@Aoredon]

It's already an app, it's called ChatGPT. Really annoys me to see people literally making a little box where all it does is use ChatGPT. No thanks, at least if that shit ran locally it'd have some value. There's literally no situation where you would use this piece of shit device.

[@syedahkam7164]

The news is out, it is essentially an android-app after all running on a trimmed version of Android.

[@Oilcruzer]

“Instead of just building an app, let’s build a box that you need another SIM card to use, with a nonfunctional touch screen, and 4 hours of battery life. Then let’s put the app in that box. People will love this.”

[@tonverfall_studio]

Definitely feels like, "Hi. Would you like to be our beta tester for $200 and a lot of device babysitting?" It's like a Kickstarter where you get this skeleton of a thing upfront, and then if they sell enough skeletons to fund their R&D, you _might_ get what you paid for at some ill-defined future point.

[@SCIFIguy64]

Oh so what lazy video game devs have been doing for a decade?

[@aitoluxd]

​@@SCIFIguy64 scammers*

[@DontShootJoleytime404]

@@SCIFIguy64yup yup. Gaming industry behavior is leaking.

[@laerin7931]

Yeah, and if it ever gets to the point where it's actually good, they'll likely release a new version that is much better than yours. So you'll have to spend more money to get something that you've spent money to get years ago.

[@temp50]

It is called 'piloting' :)

[@fiveangle]

GoPro seemed to be the first major company to start the trend by releasing their "WiFi Backpak" that didn't allow anything but "start" and "stop" on the wrist remote, not releasing the remote preview feature they promised until the next GoPro that included WiFi had a but nearly shipped. Today, it seems the new standard and I've decided to lean heavy into "vote with your dollars" because it seems the only way to send these tech companies the message in a way they will understand. Thanks again for such an honest review and commentary !

[@Styx4ndStones]

with them having the scroll wheel as a sorta gimmick considering it has a touch screen that they just block you out of and the form factor makes it feel like they were trying to copy the playdate

[@psivewri]

If this came out in 2005 I feel as if it would've made a lot more sense.

[@icemanemalik]

Now I imagined you making a “Using a Rabbit R1…from 19 years ago” video lmao

[@sentineljm]

It still would have got the plant wrong....

[@TheTruthKiwi]

Well, Siri was launched in 2011, Alexa in 2014 and Google Assistant came out in 2016 so yeah, if this came out in 2005 it would've disrupted the whole tech industry. 😂 Seriously though, if this came out in like 2012, 2013 I'm pretty sure it would've done a lot better than coming out now.

[@toututu2993]

​@@TheTruthKiwi Nah such low level gimmick like Rabbit-R1 isn't that groundbreaking at all. People with low braincell would already see its limitation while AR/VR has only reached its 1% potential which is the real future techs

[@navinmohan7515]

This is like going backwards in technology than moving forward

[@12luigi45]

You know what these AI companies should do, a Roomba, people already love their Roombas, Roombas just cleaning around and answering random questions, maybe even tell a bad joke once or twice, give it, it's own animated googly eyes, more dramatic dialogues when it's about to fall down

[@jackpijjin4088]

Tape an Alexa thing to the top of a roomba. :v

[@doublet_inthemorning]

@@jackpijjin4088 bruh that's just DJ Roomba from parks and rec lolololol

[@jackpijjin4088]

@@doublet_inthemorning LMAO

[@MollyHJohns]

Read that in a novel. Yes, a novel. The subject in question was an outdated cleaning robot, then MC (who transmigrated and becomes a genius because he was from the interstellar age) updated it to be completely intelligent and independent in the true sense of an AI. We're born to early for these tech advances.

[@SupportSoundofFreedom]

Awesome idea, add some Star Wars droid beeps and let it spew random facts on topics you've searched before when it senses a human and I would totally be on board!

[@maycoalexsander]

RIP Rabbit R1!! ChatGPT 4o just crushed it, and of course it's just a phone app and not another stupid device to have to carry around. As it should be.

[@steelmote]

I know many people who own Teenage Engineering products but none of them rely on said products as part of a creative workflow. They sit around and collect dust. Very expensive dust. I spent some time thinking about what kind of "AI in a box" product I would actually buy and use. It is really tough because there is very little creative functionality provided by AI which is not already provided by more competent and fleshed-out tools. Like, I could have a music AI generate a beat, or I could just open any of my free drum kit VSTs and have them generate beats from their library of handwritten MIDI. Chop it up, rearrange it, add/remove stuff, bam, original beat. So this is the best use case I've got: A translator or voice changer. Something like DeepL or elevenlabs in a box. That could be fun for pranks on friends. But of course even these tools are already readily accessible on both mobile and PC. So really, I got nothin'.

[@senseisins4486]

My theory is Marques doesn’t want his inbox flooded with requests to review unfinished products anymore and he’s burying them as warning shots

[@carpios1986]

Cold af, hopefully some others follows his footsteps, we don't need this stuff.

[@vikvc]

Then he should review the Ridge wallet, oh wait...

[@jestingrabbit]

or, and hear me out, he's reviewing what he has in his hands now, and it sucks.

[@danieldiaz9948]

I’m loving these takedown videos

[@moe504]

This has been a thing in gaming forever now this is happening in tech

[@abraruralam3534]

Rabbit's "introducing r1" video has the comments disabled rn, but a common complain was just "why isn't this just a mobile app?" XD

[@kaelthunderhoof5619]

They're trying to make it a Pokedex lol

[@AlexCuza]

Because Ios 18 will bring LLMs and LAMs to the iPhone UI and Google and Samsung are already implementing LLMs into their phones UI, they will surpass the rabbit instantly (app or not). This is just a cashgrab from the UI enthusiasts

[@airysm]

@@AlexCuzais LAM confirmed for iOS ?

[@marcom5500]

I blocked that ad after seeing it 3 times and being frustrated about the stupidity of the product 😂

[@webfreezy]

Yeah, the product features are all just software, not hardware, so it could simply be an app.

[@nateeyoutube9]

i really like the design and concept. cool

[@KNSSSSSS]

Man, I love listening to this guy. There's something about his voice and speech style, that's very soothing.

[@slyfox909]

Oh wow! A pocket rectangle that I can press a button on to ask questions to a virtual assistant. I certainly don’t already have one of those that I carry around everywhere all the time 🙃

[@the.abhiram.r]

except this time it's worse because instead of a decision tree, it's a very inaccurate llm

[@clementcardonnel3219]

This, but with the clown emoji

[@tiyowprasetyo]

I already have one assistant, called it Wife.

[@beildiz]

@@tiyowprasetyo does you wife know this is how you see her and are proud to share that with the world?

[@tiyowprasetyo]

@@beildiz yes sure she knows wife assisting husband is a good thing. Why do you ask? You wife never assist you? Or you don't have a wife? Or what?

[@Reed1527]

I’m glad to see we are making progress on Pokédex technology

[@SolaceMcfly]

one step closer to real pokemon, ill have my Psyduck one day

[@Skeletanks]

holy crap your right!

[@oo7799]

There is an AI device I would actually buy lol. You point it at an animal or record a bird call and it quickly and accurately identifies it and tells you ecological info about the spcies. As a biologist I would be all over that but I doubt the tech is there and I doubt the general public would want it

[@drafbear7769]

@@oo7799 i love cornell's merlin bird id app for this reason. It can identify birds by image or by sound, and its pretty damn accurate. I was surprised by how good the sound results were, I use it all the time when hiking/birdwatching now :) Only issue is that it doesn't display information about the bird iirc, but you could easily cook something up with Cornell's BirdNET API for sound, maybe something like inaturalist for photos, and some basic database responses with Cornell's ebird (assuming that someone hasn't created something similar already, which i'm sure they have).

[@mmanzanox]

Who is that pokèmon? It's Brownmonlee!

[@Worldball12345]

Great review, Marques! It's fascinating to see how the Rabbit R1, with its innovative approach and unique features, still leaves much to be desired in terms of practicality and user experience. Your thorough analysis really highlights the fine balance between ambition and execution in tech products. Looking forward to seeing how future iterations of this concept will evolve based on your insights. Keep up the excellent work!

[@ShadLife]

The "What are we doing" section is so spot on!!! These people want our money first and then maybe...just maybe we will get what we were advertised...on their timeline of course. So instead of these start ups getting investors and creating a viable product, which requires a loss of money for a few years before they see profits, they try to convince the normal consumer to buy (invest) in their incomplete product and there is no guarantee the product will ever deliver on it's promise. So they are trying to avoid having to take a risk and then you get all these people doing startups and selling half baked products with very few of them actually succeeding. Most of the products end up as landfill waste.

[@garynortonmusic]

Great honest product review thank you 👍

[@khelsan]

Oh boy, here we go Finished watching: 200$ for a square box that will be wrong, without any significant features and that looks like a toy. In other words, useless.

[@ironspider9280]

😂😂😂

[@Mfdoorway]

The fact that they put a model ("R1") means that they probably have every intention making a number two... which is ironic, considering a number two is exactly what they made

[@Bens_Jamming]

ah more AI, this’ll be interesting

[@nullpointer1284]

man why would he kill another company /s

[@kurikuraconkuritas]

oh boy no one cares about this ai garbage

[@SaschaWagner]

In German we say "Bananenprodukt, reift beim Kunden" which translates to "Banana product, ripes at the Customer"

[@braintrust12]

even in english, german still don't make sense

[@hydoffdhagaweyne1037]

@@braintrust12 LOL

[@ylette]

Makes sense to me. Great expression.

[@tofu666]

@@braintrust12 *it ripens with the customer/ it matures with the costumer

[@XmarkedSpot]

@@tofu666 ​ "at" is the correct translation: "beim" (being a contraction of "bei dem") indicates a correlation of objects in space.

[@hikigayahachiman8951]

Thanks for the honest review!

[@scaryeric]

without the teach mode I'm glad i didn't preorder. they should have held it back until that was ready like they made it sound it was.

[@volcandetripa]

"Buy the product based on what it is today, and not what it promises to be in the future" damn MKBHD goes hard on that one

[@hermitgreenn]

But countless people have said that before him.

[@SmaMan]

They had to get it out now. The generative AI chatbot bubble could pop at any moment.

[@presidentbusiness5982]

People have been giving this advice for years about pre-ordering games. Now it's happening in tech and automobiles, and still no one is listening.

[@JorisGriffioen]

@@presidentbusiness5982 The Verge has been saying this for a decade. And yeah, people don't listen..

[@nikaley]

He has been saying this for ages

[@sikiruekunsumi2482]

"Isn't this basically just an app? Phones already do everything this does, so why not just make an app instead of a whole new device?"

[@MattZildjian]

Even then I'd question why you'd need the app when the phones built in assistant does it already. Who is the target market for these ???

[@redb2112]

What app do you use to identify an item with the camera in one second's time from opening up your swipe screen?

[@dylandgs]

Google assistant ​@@redb2112

[@Bigdude0444]

​@@MattZildjian The same type of people who lost tons of money on NFTs.

[@SunDogGod]

And then Apple improves Siri with AI and this stuff becomes obsolete

[@inmitch]

I love your conclusion here. I think this could be done fairly if they offered a discount and sold the product with a description of alpha or beta stage.

[@antonnym214]

Thank you for reviewing this item. I didn't know these existed. I never heard of Teenage Engineering. Good Lord! Five seconds response time is moribund! I get 2.5 seconds when I do a voice request to Google Assistant AND i get the answer in my preferred U.S. standard measurements.

[@willybigp]

Ah yes, a new entry into the "problems already solved by the smartwatch" category, love that one

[@user-wn2pv5qb5p]

it’s crazy how i haven’t seen anyone mention smartwatches when talking about these. the whole thing about not needing to take out your phone has already been solved by watches.

[@Adelie_in_Grey]

Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing. Just wish there were more options for standalone smartwatches.

[@VIK_1903]

So very true!

[@johna4387]

Minus the camera functionality, yeah, smartwatches should be the target for a lot of these AI feature overhauls

[@PomuLeafEveryday]

It's an AI toy for children aimed at parents with money to burn. They can use it to go around and learn about things. They won't get addicted to games or social media with it, or be exposed to adult content. The design language of the product looks like a toy, I don't see why people are comparing it to a phone.

[@danielg.5354]

Google is in a great position to create such a product! All it needs to do is combine: -Lens -Assistant -Gemini -Put in some good speakers -And their camera knowledge -Package it into some metal and glass sandwich -Call it maybe a …pixel phone

[@jfred5338]

No an app

[@crimnvL]

They're busy working on Google Ad

[@Lizlodude]

Don't give them ideas, they'll kill the Pixel line and replace it with the voxel

[@TheTruthKiwi]

If you've got a pixel phone and watch you're 1000x better off but at a lot more expense though of course.

[@BillAnt]

But why?!? Even a cheap sub $100 phone can do all that and more. smh

[@PixelPocketGG]

Looking forward to the Rabbit R1 Pro review

[@ax0r]

This is what the tech review channels of yt need, honest and straightforward talk, so much garbage with a cool façade being advertised and sold that the true developers are lost in the noise keep calling them out, Marques

[@EnlighteningRod]

Probably didn't pay him the adequate amount😂

[@StevenLeeStudios]

So the people who make this, they forget we ALL have cell phones?

[@Pi7on]

Blizzard was right 😂

[@Rocksteady72a]

Siri, but slower, as a standalone device. Pay us $700!

[@JB-DJ]

this is the short I was seeing from our channel and now it's a video

[@amoss3111]

I would die to have something like this as a kid. And since most kids shouldn't have a smartphone until 13 or something it might have a use case as a cool gadget for kids.

[@quitehandsomedude6412]

​@@Pi7on do you guys not have a cellphone?

[@sanpuru1969]

So many of these AI things feel like dealing with a dimwitted project teammate. They're assigned to do things, and sometimes they do get their job done well enough, but they still get stuff wrong so frequently that you always have to check and correct their work, to the point that it's ultimately just faster and less frustrating to do it all yourself.

[@hongsonnguyen8204]

Like they didn't even use it themselves, just make for the profits, rather than customers orientated they choose money orientated

[@dmitryborisov5094]

Yes I think it is the biggest problem of AI when after AI answer you start thinking is this true?

[@aschesiegen]

I know right! But the upside is that by correcting it you get to learn something new everytime.

[@Gui-sr2jw]

Maybe you're not using them right

[@pikaa-si9ie]

@@Gui-sr2jw teach us how to use them right then

[@nataliiavelychko7720]

Era of Agile methodologies of software development in action. This is the main thing here - deliver a “bicycle” first and then add features to it to become a vehicle. As an old-school project manager in tech I hate it. As a result we get so many raw useless products on the market instead of having a good planned delivery end-product that can be used straight away 😭

[@megamastah]

1:45 that shot is beautiful.

[@abhukk]

In Rabbit R2, they will introduce calling feature. and R3, you get dual sim and you can read all your emails.

[@Kumal94]

In the R4 you'll get live emoji support

[@Ali_Jafari]

In the R5 you'll get an android phone with rabbit app installed on it

[@IgorBorovkov]

wait until they figure out there are search engines like Google

[@32rq]

Copy-paste when?

[@StemLG]

@@Ali_Jafari wait, that's already the case 🤣

[@misho_dev]

"We're gonna have 800+ apps, but here's 4 bad ones to get started" already sounds so sus lol

[@Playingwithproxies]

Yeah crazy that they only had 4 ready to go and they still think let’s release this and see who wants to pay 200$ for 4 free phone apps and Siri. 😅 if you release it with 100 apps then I might believe you can actually reach 800 😂

[@randeepyasintha140]

my question is why does this company asks for 200$ to be a beta tester and my training data?

[@MrPisster]

Depends on if you trust the company. Jessie is a solid dude and it's a $200 ticket to a show I want to watch.

[@randeepyasintha140]

​@@MrPisster lol, are you from the PR team? Is this how you justify paying hard earned money to a device that is useless at the moment but will be useful in the future but its not guaranteed? Admit it. This is a quick cash grab scam. I almost had a brain aneurism while reading the "$200 ticket to a show I want to watch" part.

[@randeepyasintha140]

@@MrPisster They even turned off the comments for all of their videos. Do you think they'll deliver the promise if they're doing stuff like that from the very beginning?

[@RichHeart89]

The large action model stuff seems cool in principle. Like actually something I'd like to tinker with. But realistically: If I want to automate the use of any app, I will write a script for it anyway, just to have absolute control over it. I don't want to blame an AI for mistakes, mistakes I make can just be debugged and fixed.

[@hoorakhshpb4559]

Finally someone with integrity. love the honest and user-centered reviews.

[@TriFekt]

At 56 seconds in "and you have to carry around like a smartphone" okay you lost me, I already have one of those.

[@ladybugleader2122]

literally

[@yaya4194]

These companies want you to basicly review their promises and future plans. Not the device they are selling you.

[@enricoandrade9732]

Hell yeah thats like a prototype

[@Frostbytedigital]

Assuming it can be updated it may be what it wants to be eventually.... but something tells me when/if they finally get where they want to be, they will release an h2 model you need to buy to utilize it all.

[@sciteceng2hedz358]

Elon business plan...except they're not Elon

[@sinpo8725]

This product sucks but Teenage Engineering is a really cool company if you are into musical instruments. They are actually very well loved

[@josephdykes1820]

U mean, they want you to fund their future projects by buying this junk.

[@Labruskie]

I've given it some thought. Sometimes you get a solution looking for a problem. Other times you get a problem looking for a solution. If they stuck a tin opener on one side, it might gain some functionality...

[@anenglishmaninsandiego]

Balanced and fair, no shouting, just solid reviewing. It's why I come to this channel.

[@JafarFarahmand]

Remember "This meeting could be an email?" this whole device could just be an app

[@cinifiend]

The problem is the venture capitalists who invested millions into this before things like ChatGPT were mainstream. They realized that google and apple have way better AI assistants coming out this year which would make this piece of crap, and the humane AI pin completely obsolete, so it's a mad dash to get it to market to get as much as their original investment back as possible. The executives at Rabbit and Humane all know their products are dogshit, but can't say anything or they'll be sued. All of the engineers are probably under contract to finish the product as well so can't back out easily until it's launched. Thus you have a device that shouldn't exist, and everyone knows it sucks, but it gets launched anyways.

[@aegon_the_conquerer9563]

Exactly what I was saying ever since the rabbit r1 was launched! Then make subscriptions for it

[@MarkusWaas]

There is already an app for it, called ChatGPT. Allows voice input, image input, hands free conversation style voice input, file input and of course regular text.

[@aegon_the_conquerer9563]

@@MarkusWaas fair! Maybe for the whole connecting with other apps thing and learning how you do things and do it for u?🤷🏼‍♂️

[@niknaksim]

@@aegon_the_conquerer9563 it could be a progressive web app with those permissions, it doesnt need to be a device

[@stevens9625]

The computer game industry has been perfecting this for decades. When I was doing my masters a decade ago, I told my professor how crazy things the gaming industry got away with in terms of early access and launching products with missing core features. It turns out, if you let one industry get away with it often enough, other industries start to take notice.

[@mascot4950]

A decade ago, sure. But two decades? That seems to be pushing it to me. That's "Steam is that silly thing Valve forces us to install to play Half- Life 2" time frame. Third party games didn't even exist on it yet, according to Wikipedia. Then again, things did move pretty quickly so I guess it might be close enough that rounding up isn't a big deal. Or am I misremembering 2004?

[@stevens9625]

@@mascot4950 You are right. The infamous Bethesda horse armor happened in 2006. I think it's somewhere between 10 and 20 years that things went off the rails for us consumers.

[@dylanhenry3277]

​@stevens9625 Star Wars X Wing sold 'expansions' that ADDED STORY to it. That was the 90's. Because I guess a full story can't be sold in the base game lol

[@mascot4950]

@@dylanhenry3277 That's.. what expansions are supposed to be. An addition that expands on the original game in meaningful ways, including story. Or are you saying the first game was artificially made into an incomprehensible mess, only to "force" people to buy expansions to make sense of it all? I'd need some evidence to support that claim.

[@bluethan806]

Studying game design, and I’m really glad my professors are actively trying to encourage proper work (and consumer) ethics with gaming because it’s been getting absurd for both consumers and developers with how much this style of “release, and then develop” is becoming the norm

[@beastio619]

This is like going to a meeting that could have been and email, the rabbit could have just been an app with a recurring monthly subscription instead of that crappy orange box with tons of issues.

[@helloeveryone0123]

THE youtube channel that i would watch to know if i really want to buy a certain product. well done. people are human beings, and not everyone would waste their hard-earned money

[@ik4h]

the easiest way to give this product an audience, RIGHT NOW, would just be to make the rabbit like a pet, you can feed it, you can play games with it, but its also incredibly smart.

[@alfie5168]

Tamagotchi vibes

[@WebToolkit]

Yeah we had that back in the '90s. Mine always died.

[@kalla103]

fr. it would be so much better even if they just gave it some different animations to show that it's listening or "thinking" and so on

[@gredystar8333]

True but it would also turn it into a toy. and the company seems to not want that. They want it to be a personal assistant that is supposed to make your life easier.

[@Tank_Facts]

Actually just turn it into an AI powered Tomagotchi. That's brilliant.

[@Ben-tv3zr]

Sir, a second MKBHD review has hit KZbin

[@saleplains]

😔✈️🏢🏢

[@lilmario0]

​@@saleplainsQueue Stakeholders jumping from the top floor.

[@your_average_cultured_dude]

@@saleplains my favorite holiday 🥳🎉🎉

[@jjasper7512]

Rabbit, does this window here on the top floor open, and how long til I hit the floor!

[@NickiRusin]

fuckin underrated

[@boogywoogy2135]

The google assistant on my Pixel can do everything that thing can do plus more and so far it's never answered or gotten an action request wrong for me. I didn't even buy the phone for the assistant and it's ended up being one of my favorite features and been very useful to me. It can even recognize what song I want or am looking for just from me humming a vague melody LOL

[@coldloner7453]

Love your honesty bro

[@rob1733]

The section "What are we doing here" deserves its own video. Well said.

[@peterpolus5272]

I think so too! It's a terrible trend, it's good that people are speaking their minds about it, especially in tech and gaming

[@LonelySandwich]

The moment he said “shake it” and “scroll wheel”…It’s a Zune with only AI. That rocketed the entire 2010s back in my brain and it hurts.

[@myrealusername2193]

We know where the Zune ended up, though I wish this came in the classic Zune colors of poo brown and mushy peas green.

[@josephfrechette9916]

At least zune was a decent product for it's time.

[@DistrosProjects]

I can't believe you are still stealing comments in 2024.

[@onlyhannahfans]

Zune though 😂 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

[@blakksheep736]

​@@myrealusername2193 found the dankpods fan.

[@maniya6830]

I feel on the plant test, it is more about the camera being trash rather than the AI model because it does look like a Monstera plant if the depth perception and dynamic was off and it mistook the indentations as holes.

[@FZMKT]

Thank you for your review, I thought I would buy one but nah I will pass at least for now, maybe version 2 or 3 might be interesting.

[@stevemeister3840]

A computer that fits in your pocket? Now I think I’ve seen everything.

[@alauniyahh]

isnt that just a phone

[@phoenix5054]

​@@alauniyahh Yes. I don't think he's being sincere with that comment. 😂

[@SilveniumTheDrifter]

@@alauniyahh Vrooooom!

[@Ladymystique80]

​@@alauniyahhsarcasm

[@chiaraj1003]

I know! What's next, a telephone that can take pictures!?

[@blb]

I completely respect what Marques is doing. All of these companies are just using AI to pump out crap tech. Call 'em out and tell it the way it is! That's why we respect you so much.

[@ZeroGravitas187]

These startup companies seem to clearly be hoping that a clueless Zuck or Musk or other mega-cap CEO desperate to 'innovate' (because they can't) will buy them for massive amounts of money...without asking the basic business 'But, why?' question.

[@ericluis2710]

And what is he doing?! If it's not a product made by Apple or Tesla he's not going to slobber all over their knob and say that it's the best product ever and what credentials does he have other than just being a KZbin reviewer?! Does he have any college education to back up any of his reviews or claims or anything like that? No he doesn't

[@poupoupidoum]

@@ericluis2710 he literally has a university degree relevant to tech and business. but that's not why people listen to him

[@CM-nd7mx]

@@ericluis2710are you saying that he didn’t go to college (Stevens Institute of Technology)? Or that his degree (Business and Information Technology) can’t possibly be a foundation for tech reviewing?

[@phdonme1]

It's just Google lens I can't believe they're trying to pull the wool over people's faces And Google lens works a thousand times better And it's free

[@Yesica1993]

Wow, I am behind! I had not even heard of this.

[@METTLAS_YT]

Another great review by Marques, having explored the potential of the Rabbit R1, I'm convinced that the development of their Large Action Model (LAM) holds immense promise for the future of AI. While acknowledging that other tech giants like Google and Apple may enter this arena in their own ways, Rabbit has pioneered a path worth following. Despite its many limitations at the moment, there's a tangible optimism surrounding the Rabbit R1's no-subscription model and its potential for growth. It's a reminder that AI is a rapidly evolving field, and sticking with Rabbit as they refine their offerings could yield exciting advancements in the years to come.

[@TG22222]

Love how it saw an indoor plant and then just identified it as the most popular indoor plant, despite having a completely different leaf shape.

[@danielm6247]

That’s what I identified it as 😂

[@GuineaPigsAdventures]

It’s very interesting that companies are now trying to sell half baked products and then advertise them otherwise

[@vercopolis]

What is a problem we don't need to solve?

[@thatguy1080]

Video Game Enthusiasts: "First time?"

[@mdmackint]

omg hi I love your videos!

[@SkelloWellow-rj9su]

Lenovo: Been there, still doing that

[@ZaHandle]

It’s not half baked. It’s literally raw

[@nazzarenoruspolinidesign]

So, as a product designer, shortly after the presentation, I did a video on my channel analyzing the shape and usability. Everything looks great, but it's a product developed for right-handers. Plus, the voice command outdoors, hmm. The error rate with background noise and privacy? Do we want everyone to hear our questions? Typing on the screen with such tiny keys is nearly impossible. But apart from all that, Marques has said it all.

[@jekker1000]

Everything looks great? It looks like a teenager printed a fiddly case for a raspberry with a chinese mini touchscreen. Even the orange looks like the standard orange that prusa uses.

[@LTEKMU2LOUB]

Proud of the Rabbit AI team most teams didn't delivery, Imagine the rabbit AI living in your device OS any device is what AI promised, but most of us don't need assistance with simplicities and hard tasks are nearly yimpossible to streamline without life's work. I streamlined a team of assistives rollsheet to simplify a large quantity of os and life tasks which are considered rated G and pleasurable.