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Why the best Rabbit R1 feature can't make up for its AI shortcoming

The Rabbit R1 is an AI device that is supposed to jumpstart Large Action Models. But what it ended up doing best was becoming a pocket-sized translator in my tests

I’ve been testing the first physical AI gadgets of 2024, which harness the power of Large Language Models similar to ChatGPT and aim to answer my most complex questions and even take action on requests. In my Rabbit R1 review, I cited the fact that the device’s Perplexity AI-backed offers outdated data – it thought that OJ Simpson was still alive 14 days after his death and forecast that the next total eclipse in the United States “is” on April 8. But planning a trip with bookings, ordering food or an Uber with natural language, or finding a recipe based on what the computer-vision camera sees in my fridge failed to produce the desired results.

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