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Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Rabbit R1 AI box is actually an Android app in a limited $200 box, running on AOSP without Google Play.
Rabbit Inc. is unhappy about details of its tech stack being public, threatening action against unauthorized emulators.
AOSP is a logical choice for mobile hardware as it provides essential functionalities without the need for Google Play.

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[–] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Magic

In all reality, it is a ChatGPTitty "fine"tune on some datasets they hobbled together for VQA and Android app UI driving. They did the initial test finetune, then apparently the CEO or whatever was drooling over it and said "lEt'S mAkE aN iOt DeViCe GuYs!!1!" after their paltry attempt to racketeer an NFT metaverse game.

Neither this nor Humane do any AI computation on device. It would be a stretch to say there's even a possibility that the speech recognition could be client-side, as they are always-connected devices that are even more useless without Internet than they already are with.

Make no mistake: these money-hungry fucks are only selling you food cans labelled as magic beans. You have been warned and if you expect anything less from them then you only have your own dumbass to blame for trusting Silicon Valley.

[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If the Humane could recognise speech on-device, and didn't require its own data plan, I'd be reasonably interested, since I don't really like using my phone for structuring my day.

I'd like a wearable that I can brain dump to, quickly check things without needing to unlock my phone, and keep on top of schedule. Sadly for me it looks like I'll need to go the DIY route with an esp32 board and an e-ink display, and drop any kind of stt + tts plans

[–] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Sadly for me it looks like I'll need to go the DIY route with an esp32 board and an e-ink display, and drop any kind of stt + tts plans

Latte Panda 2 or just wait a couple years. It'll happen eventually because it's so obvious it's literally unpatentable.