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The Rabbit R1 Is the Weirdest CES Gadget

— January 15, 2024 25 comments




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  2. Rabbit –
    Iā€™m a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. I donā€™t do AI. I donā€™t know everything. I do know more than the average person who doesnā€™t build software for a living.

    There are two basic ways this can function that Iā€™m aware of.

    This can use APIs for companies who have one. Uber for example has an API. You donā€™t need an app and you donā€™t need to click things. You need to send the right details to their API. Thatā€™s basically all your phone app does app itā€™s just a front end that does the best job it can to collect the right details to tell their servers what they need to know for your transaction.

    This can also use a legit learning model to watch you interact with an app to see which actions you perform to complete a task. Theoretically that would work on a computer or phone or tablet. If you open some piece of software and click in these 12 places to accomplish a task ā€¦ it remembers those details and what you were trying to accomplish. After youā€™ve done that a number of times it will be able to mimic those tap or click event actions in that app or on that web page. Once it knows how to do it, it can do all of that in the background to ā€¦ open the game you just downloaded and click on the timers that refresh every 4 hours, or open your banking app and tell you your account balance ā€¦ or stalk your ex on instagram and let you know if anyone new has been tagged (obviously itā€™s going to be REALLY hard to make something ethical that can also learn to do just about anything, and stuff will be misused). This may not be what it does. It may just require software to have an API.

    Also, software changes. Updates to an API it works with could break its ability to use that thing for a while. If itā€™s using that second option changing the front end of an app (what a user sees to interact with) would also have a chance to break things.

    Iā€™ve built software that mimics clicks on a page. You can key off of text and if that text changes things break, or you can key off of location and if the layout changes things break. These options are very fragile. The pro here is that the Rabbit servers collect the data from everyone. So, if Uber changes things at 8:00am and a bunch of people have already taught the software about the change, when you try to use Uber at 8:30am it may already know how to do it.

  4. 4:28 What?! That sounds like something that would happen in some poor 3rd world country, not the US.

    This actually did happen to me when we were on vacation in Sri Lanka in 2014. We were going up the hill to Nuwara Eliya and the sliding door of the van literally just fell off. While we were driving. Eventually 2 of my uncles had to lift and back up and hold it in place until we could get to town šŸ˜‚

  6. 36:26 20 years ago the game Rez for the PS2 had the ā€œtrance vibratorā€ which was basically haptic feedback you said on for game immersion.

    It was popular with women.

  11. I disagree with the findings. Nobody cares about download speeds when t mobile can't even keep this sustained in one setting while downloading content or simply going on a website. I had them for a decade, and they got worse after 5G not better. It got so bad lately that I switched to stay and guess what, every single issue with data latency disappeared. Not one issue since. T mobile fooled everyone through bs numbers that only count in small ingredients. One cannot rationalize quality if latency is so damn bad with t mobile. Not talking about the often rigged tests. None of those tests you do translate to reality in many populous cities. I can list them all but my issue isn't you, it's the really bad "positive " reviews that only seem to come from YouTube creators because nobody I know says they have a great t Mobile signal. I love the company but after the constant breaches, constantly bad network issues, and the final nail in the coffin, merging with sprint which is ironically when my issues with T mobile latency began. I can't make this up. And yes, I have tested myself in several states since 2020.

  12. All portable tech should be banned until age 18 to protect young humans from social media , and ensure their own independent cognative development and healthy eye development. Too many kids (and adults) can't think for themselves – they just google up an answer and take it unquestioningly. Young eyes staring into screens all day long end up with vision problems, needing glasses or laser operations. Save the Humans !

  14. So I feel like everyone is missing the Raven H desktop robot series Teenage engineering started 6 years ago to take on the alexa for Baidu. TE has alot of projects outside of there music gear. At least everyone is starting to thing differently about product design 1:08:34 – they have been at this for a min.

  18. ngl, I really want to try the rabbit, and I hope it improves. It can be for work, school, gym/park it can do all you need so you can keep the distraction, youtube and gaming for when you are at home on a tablet. honestly phones are way too cluttered and just a bombardment of notifications and updates. I want simplicity and minimalism…

  22. 7:25 the fact that i actually got an ad from mous, saying that the phone that fell out of the plane used a mous case. And then in the same video you talk about this and mention someone should do something like that is amazing and a little concerning.

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