The R1 is how you might imagine a pocket computer if you had never seen a smartphone.
Instead, you push the side button to give it instructions, like talking into a walkie-talkie.
Going by the demo video, it’s fast and eerily accurate in understanding your commands.
Rabbit R1.Rabbit
That’s because it uses AI, although not in the way we’ve become accustomed to.
This means it can understand and use any website on your behalf, which is pretty nuts.
Demo examples include booking an entire vacation, including flights and hotels, and creating an itinerary.
Rabbit R1 AI Pocket Companion.Rabbit
you could tell it to order an Uber to take you home, order dinner, or play music.
It will then interface with those web apps and websites for you and tell you about the result.
You never see Nyota Uhura or Wesley Crusher struggling with TripIt or juggling apps to hail the enemy vessel.
Rabbit R1 Pocket Companion AI.Rabbit
This is the kind of AI we can get behind.
It’s been trained to use websites and to parse instructions from your spoken commands.
Those are both things that AI should be good at.
It’s just a plain old web search.
Take Two Devices Into the World?
If you soak your brain in TikToks while riding the metro, then this is not for you.
Or not yet, anyway.
Today, all phones are essentially the same and work the same way.
And here’s the kicker.
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