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

[@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.

[@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.

[@sk4rr]

who's here after coffeezilla's newest video ?

[@hungtrinh83]

Sir. Me. Ser!

[@ariessuggs3819]

Me lol

[@aurelioisidro4989]

Me

[@harminderphull7559]

🙋🏾

[@Dac_vak]

Called out lol

[@bijhua]

Coffeezilla dropped the nail in the coffin on this one

[@numberonedad]

yeah this guy is so gullible who believes in tesla's self-driving at this point

[@freezingicy9457]

@@numberonedad what

[@fertigkippen]

and it makes the people who said „but he destroyed the company with that review how could he be so honest >:(„ look even dumber just a scammer with a scam product getting owned by a actual honest review thank god people like he and coffeezilla exist

[@burp2019]

@@numberonedad what are you even talking about

[@aarondavis8943]

Nah, it was a stillbirth. Very sad.

[@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

[@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

[@pko1683]

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.

[@theblackunicorn261]

Coffeezilla may have executed the Rabbit R1, but Marques loaded the guns

[@yayariru]

This is a scam company trying to ride the AI hype train. They did the same thing with NFTs. Please don't buy it.

[@DUALIAM]

Thanks for the heads up.

[@ilyamethot3005]

Teenage Engineering? Scam company? They've been putting out great synthesizers for years now. Definitely not **just** a scam company even if this product isnt great.

[@shellz831]

EXACTLY, COMPLETELY USELESS. A bunch of useless FAKE AI devices that solves ZERO problem

[@marcosalazar4682]

Coffezilla

[@TheRustyguY]

@@ilyamethot3005 they only got commissioned to design the body of the device. Nothing besides the external shell.

[@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.

[@cheekarp2180]

If it cost $30 it might be a toy for kids, but other than that it does nothing a phone can't do.

[@thepapschmearmd]

It doesn’t even do what a phone can do lol. It does minimal functions poorly. What a scam.

[@BlackistedGod]

my 20 years old calculator is better than this sh!t. I mean I dont have to fvckng verify if that answer it gives arnt bowlsheet

[@juliadandy6019]

Even for a toy, it gives a kid incorrect answers, which is awful

[@hoihoi8]

Dude, you are the most optimistic person of all time. This should have been 100% dunked on. It's garbage vaper ware that every current cell phone can do. You need to warn you viewers of scams, and this is clearly one

[@Tr1ploid]

Company that designed this is pretty legit though, having won quite some design awards for the OP-1 synthesizer.

[@felesnocis]

@@Tr1ploidI’m pretty sure this is a joke I don’t get. Is it?

[@Tr1ploid]

@@felesnocis it isn't? All i'm saying is a company tends to get the benefit of the doubt if they have previously released successful products, this is a company with a legit reputation that is putting their name on the line for this product. TE isn't just some random Kickstarter startup with the intention to scam people. It's a firm whose products have been used by musicians ranging from Taylor Swift to Thom Yorke and Tame Impala. Although, to be fair, I think Teenage Engineering might just have been contracted for the physical design, and maybe they are not the actual product owners.

[@tiramika]

@@felesnocis the company that did the hardware for the rabbit is called teenage engineering, they are a legit company who just got commissioned to do the hardware for this ai scam. they have a lot of music related products like synthesizers. Teenage engineering is seperate from the rabbit company, who made everything else and are the shady ones.

[@felesnocis]

@@tiramika thanks!!! That’s actually super interesting.

[@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

[@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.

[@squaretomato]

The "What are we doing here" section at 14:06 is a major insight. Would love to see a whole video on that topic!

[@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!

[@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

[@tabagoromi4949]

Just watched 2 series of coffeezilla's video about this, and I'm convienced that this thing is just another scam

[@aarondavis8943]

Hey, it's like a smartphone but with a worse processor, screen and battery, and it has no phone and doesn't work but apart from that it's great so lay off!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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]

@@NajeebGamer99downvoted

[@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]

@@NajeebGamer99My 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.

[@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.

[@scxrtii]

who here after coffeezillas video lmaooo

[@JohnJohn-yl4ko]

✋

[@themoonman-4]

lol yup

[@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?

[@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*

[@taherajna]

​@@10goku83 psycho mantis*?

[@Tjs736]

It clearly had an issue working out scale. A monstera kinda looks like that but is much bigger. The fruit is the size of a cob of corn, and delicious btw

[@SamuelAKing]

This thing is borderline a scam, and that was obvious from its dazzlingly stylised but completely opaque pre-sale advertising. It’s a shittier more annoying version of a phone, and teenage engineering should be ashamed for being involved with it. If FyreFest guy was in tech, this is exactly the bs he’d sell.

[@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}

[@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.

[@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😂

[@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

[@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.

[@_diogenes1]

Returning it before I open the box. Thx MKBHD!

[@NameGoesHere988]

Good Luck 👍

[@zacharyturner5259]

Thanks for this video, it was really helpful in highlighting the strength's and weaknesses of this. I can't wait to see the future iterations once they've added and refined some more features like you also mention, like a calendar and alarm. Definitely a neat creative device!

[@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

[@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

[@edbabine]

After watching Coffeezilla's newest video on The Rabbit, All the people who went at Marques Brownlee's review of This product. I would like to know their Opinion now. Are people just going to let them slide? They need to keep that same energy.

[@zoa9720]

He seems much too soft now.

[@Hypnotized81]

Those concepts should be an app on your phone costing $5.99 a month. But they get greedy and figure: let's build a stand alone device and get some big $$$. Ain't gonna happen of course. At least they should start with an app and maybe in the long run they could go for a device even though imho it'd still be a very hard (if not impossible) sale.

[@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

[@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' :)

[@KNSSSSSS]

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

[@FrankAtcheson-po3jb]

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

[@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?

[@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

[@carsonthompson4260]

Imagine a Pokédex-esque toy where you take pictures of animals and “capture” them as AI pets

[@catdee609]

Ruh Roh, When Coffee is putting out a video on a product you know it's more than just a bad product!

[@tiffanyh1274]

😂 I had to see what this thing was. Just watched the coffee video. These guys should have just shut up and took the review in stride. Smh

[@onedumbgamer3858]

I didn’t know that beverages had opinions

[@GMHD777]

This is exactly how the gaming industry has been operating for years. Delivering a product that you pay for then after a year or two, giving half the product and the rest behind a paywall. To think I liked this idea.

[@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

[@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

[@lenapawlek7295]

Lol i was laughing "its very wrong"

[@garynortonmusic]

Great honest product review thank you 👍

[@Snowblaze_]

Very good review! Thanks and God bless!

[@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

[@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 🤣

[@kactuskurt]

large action model: check this box to verify you're human: large action model: **begins sweating profusely**

[@marccram6584]

Excellent review

[@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.”

[@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!

[@rensaudade]

Thanks coffeezilla

[@jamesocker5235]

Thanks for proper reviews in a world of hype

[@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

[@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?

[@OffGridInvestor]

As someone who KNOWS and has EATEN the rare monstera deliciousa fruit that ISN'T terrible common, it should easily pick up the distinct leaves not mistake it for coffee.

[@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

[@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!

[@IzzyOnTheMove]

You can make anything wearable with rare earth magnets and Gorilla Glue

[@DangerousKaos]

I normally don't buy things at the beginning unless it's super awesome. I hate that I have to wait until it's "ready" later like years later. It feels like a pyramid scheme or like a go fund me like "here's your phone (for now) and your features later". Like ordering a burger without the condiments or lettuce and tomato. I was excited for R1, but perhaps another year or two. :(

[@DaviCarneiro-uo5pw]

Another year or two? By then, Apple, Google and OpenAI will already have integrated all those AI gimmicks into our phones. That's why they rushed it to market, and why it's so utterly pointless Edit: yep, Tim Apple just announced Apple Intelligence, look at that

[@TheSkaOreo]

I feel like this where we are with tech. Buy into it now with the hopes that it will get better sometime in the future

[@ALT-vz3jn]

Why bother? Your phone already does everything the Rabbit is trying to do when its app isn’t broken.

[@uhrguhrguhrg]

why would you get excited for it? it promised features that were available on phones 8 years ago and failed to deliver

[@fluidthought42]

Turns out that you may have to wait later, probably after the fraud lawsuits inevitably roll out...

[@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

[@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?

[@jayceewilliams5250]

Anyone else come back here after seeing coffeezilla video? The reason this thing is so bad is because it's not A.I. and when it is, it's a ripoff of a different product😂

[@louiv4257]

Me 🙋‍♂️ I wish coffee would have collaborated with mkbhd on a phone call with the rabbit team to discuss the issues

[@adog3129]

this is a great video with really high production value, why are the captions auto generated? "thousand million power battery" 3:53

[@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!?

[@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.

[@dizzydyzy]

​@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]

@@dizzydyzy 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

[@mystriddlery]

These new Tamagotchis are insane

[@noelreyesjr]

Coffeezilla got me here.

[@Yesica1993]

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

[@soushi8]

Don’t worry you are not missing anything 😂😂

[@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.

[@willybigp]

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

[@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.

[@jonhon]

Amazing! Google doesn't work on my phone anymore, so I would love this.

[@williamsalgado9738]

this is like reviewing a meal while it's in the middle of being made but like, the breads ready

[@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.

[@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

[@seinfelb6851]

The touchscreen aspect reminds me of the previous generation of Mazda cars - they do have touchscreens, but it locks you out above like 5mph. Their knob/wheel solution is slick enough but they made the right call on the newer cars by not even teasing you with the possibility of it being a touchscreen.

[@RoyRope]

Solid review.

[@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.

[@GreginLA18]

Coffeezilla KZbin channel just posted a 2nd new video about the Rabbit R1 Scam. Very interesting

[@Wutertheodds]

Tech companies taking the “Live Service” gaming approach and applying it to new product releases. Very cool, it’s worked so well for gaming clearly.

[@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.

[@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

[@thecloudtherapist]

Not quite. We still have brains of our own, and although I agree with him, I felt he was not harsh enough in dispensing with such nonsensical devices such as the R1 and Pin. There's nothing in them that the recent OpenAI app and new model (GPT-4o) can't do and then some!

[@tack3545]

@@thecloudtherapisti agree, he’s definitely being too nice

[@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

[@Korgano]

Seeing that thing float up and down on the screen all day would drive me nuts.

[@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

[@Ec360Gaming]

The fundamental problem with all of these "AI in a box" products is that the AI isn't actually in the box. They're pocket sized devices that record audio and/or pictures, send that to a server, and tell you what the server said. You know what else is a pocket size device that can record audio/video and communicate with a server? Your phone. They're devices the size of a phone, which cost as much as a phone, and require a cell plan like your phone and the only thing they do is talk to talk to a slightly more advanced chat bot than the one your phone already uses. It's not even a straight upgrade to things like Google Assistant and Siri, because Google Assistant and Siri can consistently do math correctly and dont hallucinate

[@Leynad778]

It's the app in a box...

[@CodecrafterArtemis]

I guess if you tried to stuff LLM in such a small box, the box would melt.

[@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.

[@Ec360Gaming]

​​@@PomuLeafEverydayIt has the design language of a toy because that's trendy right now, but it was developed and marketed as a serious AI assistant that could do things like make transactions and communicate with others on your behalf. The original CES demo, which lead to them selling out the preorder editions, was all about how it can make purchases and book things like travel all on its own.

[@gman7497]

If that's the use case, it makes a little bit of sense, still absurdly expensive though

[@Beauweir]

Never buy a product based on future promise. Entire AAA industry shivers in its boots

[@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...

[@ArbiterofMankind]

@@rushinburrito That's just Apple being Apple, they always turn off their comments. This company however is not a multi trillion dollar company.

[@KRM85]

@@rushinburritobut apple didn't create a scam crypto project and take people's money and put it into a shitty AI box.

[@gramfero]

​@@ArbiterofMankindthey're both massive wastes of money, so the comparison kinda works

[@ArbiterofMankind]

@@gramfero well, one successfully got a cult following, despite service and the quality of their product. The other is trying. Let’s see if they are successful.

[@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

[@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.

[@BusyMEOW]

It looks cool and I like the idea of something seperate from my phone but if it uses a sim card I still have to hand over my private details and who knows what tracking actions the R1 Rabbit is doing behind the scenes to use up so much battery on standby mode.

[@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

[@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 😂

[@cookingworldafri]

Very nice

[@MarioMaccaDesign]

Motion Designer here. May I ask how the flip animation between chapters is made? It looks so dam real to me that I'm having a real hard time figuring the process behind it, even watching it frame by frame! That's a very cool job!