It's a lot like the fake Shutdown that Microsoft added to windows back in Windows 8 where it was more of a hibernate than a shutdown. That one drove me nuts as I wanted the shutdown to actually do what it says.
one of the stories in "I, robot" is a telepath story, the robot can read minds and it can't hurt people, the can't hurt people is turned into that it can't hurt peoples feelings so it has to tell them what they want to hear. the llm is tuned by letting the user hear what they consider as the correct response. it just doesn't have the actions to go along with the answers and it doesn't have any real deduction skills.
Yeah, I even did a test for his search of who hosts snazzy labs and while Siri did not speak the answer it did come up with the correct one near instantly.
Can you imagine a use case for a device where AI might be useful, but you DON"T want to bring an expensive smartphone? Can you imagine a use case for a device where it's very design makes it far more useful to people on the go? People who don't want to stop and doom scroll a phone for 5 minutes every time there's a notification? Ever think that maybe most smartphone use.... isn't good/healthy? Everything about smartphones is about assisting you through life. All features, all aspects, designed to be 'assistants.' AI is new, needs to continue to iterate to be where we can reliable use it instead of the current trend of smartphones. Legit use cases for Rabbit R1 1. Going out for a run/exercise/physical activity. 2. Construction/engineering site. 3. Maintain tabs on children when they are out in the community. 4. school settings, learning aid. Notice how none of these are 'I need a smartphone' reasons to have one? Maybe... you don't always need a smartphone as a tool, but maybe there are ways to provide AI powered tools to people who don't want to use a smartphone.
@@boburanus69 I can imagine that, but a second device that's useful only some of the time is a much harder sell. And I don't see these things replacing the phone entirely for pretty much anyone. There are so many useful things a smartphone does that rely on physical user input and/or I wouldn't blindly trust an AI to get right. It's easier and cheaper to discipline yourself with a phone, rather that buying a secondary gismo
@@maksymfedoriaka2851 but this isn't a second device. For most if the situations I listed, it's your only device. And yes, AI itself needs work to become more reliable/useful. If I'm going on a run, maybe I'm taking this rabbit R1 to have some assistance if needed, or access to music, whatever else the thing does. Need emergency services? But maybe I don't want to take my expensive, heavy smartphone, and maybe I don't have a watch. I don't like this product at all, and even I can u derstand how it would fit for a lot of people. It's not meant to compete with a smartphone, it's meant to offer a different experience than a smartphone. 10 years from now, either of these products might replace smartphones, but not if reviews call them bad producs based on faulty premises. And again, I don't even like either of these products.
@@boburanus69 I don't understand your thinking in your examples. 1. Going for a run? Why the hell would I take the Rabbit R1 with me running or exercising or any physical activity? If I am going to have something in my pocket why would I want the R1 when I already have my iPhone. If I don't want my phone I can use my Apple Watch or any other smart watch. 2. What possible advantage could the R1 have in this scenerio? 3. Again why do I need a separate device to so what I already can with my phone or smartwatch. 4. Same same.
The backlash for calling out these garbage products is insane. There is ZERO practical use for either of these products which is literally what theyre supposed to be used for: practical, everyday use. And they cant even get that right. Make garbage products and you deserve your failure. I actually think the reviewers of these products have been more than fair reviewing them.
You have never worked with elderly, disabled, illiterate people have you? There is a lot of excitement for devices like the rabbit r1 in the disability, elder care, education, tourism, industrial industries etc.
@@carylittleford8980 yea of course there is and it’s understandable. But, these products dont do ANYTHING well, like i literally said, the practical everyday use of these products is actually terrible. It would still inconvenience even the disabled
@@Picollus1 Yes, you've got it. I have occasion to listen to MBA students and this is exactly the path they focus on. They can go on for hours without ever talking about any specific technology, engineering concepts, or user benefit. They simply want to find a path to exploit engineers and turn them into gold by timing these buyouts. Financial alchemy.
Absolutely spot on with every point. This video is a masterclass on the current state of AI hype and what needs to happen to turn the hype into a (working) reality.
No one needs AI. It's just the next thing to make sure the stock valuation of these companies stays up. It's useless. Especially now since people have found a way to corrupt the data sets that it keeps stealing. Not to mention the objectively ridiculous amount of energy it needs. AI will never be able to be left alone by itself to perform. If anything we should be working on quantum computing Because that would definitely help with AI.
Glad you stepped in man. Was following the Marques-gate and it's not justfified. First you poke at the guy with dumb statements, then you release an objectively horrendous and unnecessary product and then the reviewer is to blame for calling it what it is? What the hell? God, the hypocresy on this planet. Stay Snazzy.
@@codycast Dude is now getting called as the start up killer. The company said in a pre launch briefing that they ''don't think MKBH would call it the worst product he's ever reviewed''. Dude then did exactly that, rightfuly in a very detailed review and suddenly got massive hate online from devs and so on.
He gave AVP a pass because the industry's standard Apple bias, he hyped what it could to do in the future to the moon and back but he doesn't give other companies the same chance, and don't give me the old Apple delivers because the don't people just seem to forget
@@LauS0 The difference with AVP being that it currently does everything that the marketing says it does?? The future is his speculation, but AVP does 100% of everything currently that Apple has said it could do. The Rabbit/Humane people say that their devices will do what they're advertising in the future.
MKB wasn't the first review to call this out, or at least it wasn't the first review I saw in my feed. It was the first one I watched, but I had seen other channels in my recommended feed with headlines saying exactly the same thing.
11:05 "In theory, this sounds like a good idea" NO IT DOES NOT. You have essentially logged in using someone else's computer (AKA the cloud) and left it running
@@philamavikane9423 In fact, for a majority of the services they want to connect to it's very likely to be a TOS violation for the user to give their login details to a random intermediary like this. And I guess it means their "apps" will be super wonky for accounts using MFA.
A $40 smart speaker like an echo dot or a Google home mini is way better. It's way cheaper and gives you better results faster and more accurately too. And it actually plays music if you ask it too, lmao
Waiting for Rabbit to go Amazon's route and start getting people somewhere in the world to hear your audio request and then do it manually. Calling it ✨AI✨
Rabbit could, but humane could not as its main objective is to be something to give people some phone functionality but without being a phone/having all those addictive screen elements. Saying this just be an app ignores the whole point of the pin. They both suck and aren't good enough to do what they're trying to do tho. Apparently meta glasses are doing it a bit better for that purpose. I think the 'wrong' people are reviewing the humane ai -- tech lovers are not really the target audience of something to get away from a particular type of tech. But having the target audience review it would still be bad reviews since it sucks. But likely would be less comments like this if people who actually want this type of thing.
@@hefoxedFumbling through 100’s of millions to create an absolute garbage product intended at general audience and saying it’s not intended for tech audience is hilarious. All these products are aimed at general audience itself
@@hefoxed The People who wants to escape from phones who end up trying these products will be so irritated that they will go back to the normal phones. also these products were not really advertised for people who want to escape the addicting nature of the phones, but more on ai. The "wrong" people who review these products do and did consider the purpose you just mentioned just tried replacing their phones with the ai pin as much as possible, but it was 1) slower than just taking your phones, and 2) less ussfull, and 3) just straight up wrong in many situation. YOUR WRONG. Also the humane had a lack of important features like calling uber and more. Also the Rabbit is Litually a Device running android 13 with the rabbit launcher. don't believe me? just search it up. people were even able to run apps like Minecraft pe because its litually a crappy android device. so the short of it is that It doesn't have any real benefit compared to your phones. and even with the purpose you mentioned will not work, since its impossible to have the important features of your phone on these 2 products. making the people who use these products to have a phone on their pockets. So don't be informative without knowing your stuff.
Your Spanish is great, my dude! I still recall a few years ago when you said "Mac OS EL CAPITAN" in perfect Spanish and I was like "WOW, I WASN'T EXPECTING CASPER SPEAKS SPANISH" LOL
@@itswangso "The Worst TWO Products I’ve Ever Reviewed" which references the MKHBD's videos about the same products, but particularly the one about the AI Pin which caused a lot of needless drama.
I gotta say, Quinn hit all the nails for the AI assistant in your pocket/hands quite accurately. I mean other tech reviews were bland and not as deeply analyzed for the product use case beyond what the manufacturer has shown, the competitor product/ technology and how they stack up against them (Esp Phones & laptops) . I always thought Smart watches from the likes of Apple and Google were the perfect competitor for these products given their intent to use, but the sheer lack of technology/software to enable these use cases was the lacking factor for them. If these big tech companies integrate these tech products within their mobile ecosystem (phone+watch+earbuds). This will be the true evolution of AI and smart digital assistants integrating with your pocketable, powerful devices with the capability of ambient computing.
A pedantic addendum for the joke at 01:15 Bunny rabbits, actually, don't really like carrots beyond being an ocassional treat. It's also a health hazard due to lots of starch in them. They'd rather snack on grass and other veggies. The green part of the carrots though? Those are fair game.
- There is a place for something in the form factor of a presentation clicker or iPod shuffle - just a camera and a microphone but it offloads processing to your phone or computer and plays back through your earbuds. - The pin's end game vision is of an always on aid, but the energy usage just isn't low enough yet. - Everyone is angsty for the next major evolution in human-computer interfacing that changes what our product environment looks like - it's neurolink (embeds) not wearables.
take the straps off your apple or android watch and there you go thats your clicker. the pins marketing was already an always on aid that would make your meeting notes for you. that's what naive hype marketing people believed after seeing their trailer, when told it doesn't have battery to do that they would say thats why it has the hot swap batteries and when told that's not enough they would ponder and say that the company wouldn't lie. at which point it had to be just pointed out to that yes they would mislead you, why wouldn't they - this is a true encounter, not just an example. and the company probably got funding by lying as well and managed to find funding who didn't stop to ask why is it a device this technology is a billion dollar market if it works magically like that just as a software.
I agree with you. I remember the internet of things, everything being connected to the internet but a washer and dryer does not need to be connected to work, an useless feature. At the same tine, consider having sponsors that compete with your product review. It can apper to be a conflict of interest.
The last thing I want from ai is it to take jobs away from creatives; that’s the best part about humans. I want to be able to tell Siri to order specific food from DoorDash or edit images like you said at the end of the video. Basically anything to speed up workflows but not take jobs away from people who do any kind of art, whether that be music, movies, or drawings.
AI wont replace creatives. rather it'll allow creatives to be more productive. it'll just mean a lot of the more mediocre creatives will get filtered out as AI can only really produce mediocre remixes of existing work.
I 100% agree. Something Apple would never do but Google could pull off would be to release an SDK so that a 3rd party AI device could work like it was made by the manufacturer. If the AI pin could send/receive messages/calls from the same number as your phone, then you could decide to temporarily use one of these devices when you want to disconnect from your full phone (while still having access to some of the core functionality of a phone), but you wouldn’t have to tell all your friends/family “use this number to reach me for the next few hours.”
On May 4th I asked for a star wars quote, Gemini told me I'm a large language model and can not answer that. I then said, that is literally your job. It said I was correct and then gave me the correct quote.
Love the addition of Apple’s AI efforts at the end. While true, Daring Fireball and other newsletters and blogs have been covering some of it, I just love how Quinn just links everything and presents it so cohesively in a relevant video!
The Rabbit R1 does have hardware features that would make a lot more sense on a playdate 2, like a backlit/color/touch screen, a more sleek rotary input than the crank (my biggest complaint about the playdate, actually), etc. I think a playdate 2 that took some of the R1's decent hardware/design features (even if they suck in the context of a smartphone replacement like this wants to be) would be a great followup to the original. The R1 seems like a waste of what is, to my eyes at least, a cute and sleek little design. Throw in a built-in solution for doing basic media playback, a la mp3/media players of the 00's, and you have an extremely cute and desirable boutique handheld.
I must say I'm pretty impressed by Gemini. I did a small whiskey tasting at some point. And just out of interest I snapped a pic of the 3 bottles I had lined up. I asked for tasting notes of each bottle and finally asked it what the drinking order should be. It pretty much confirmed what my reasoning was and was able to give more information as well. Of course it's still something you should fact check. But the fact that it got the correct whiskeys out of that image and was able to give a comprehensive tasting notes list and drinking order is insane to me. Really looking forward to the next chapter
Considering our biological features and social environments, the smartphone really is the ultimate portable computing device. In some places in California maybe, but in most populated places on the planet, people running around yelling at their devices and having them yell back really isn't a viable option. We're also a lot more efficient at processing large amounts of information visually, so having an AI assistant on your powerful smartphone that can provide easily viewable feedback is just a lot more effective.
To be honest, I think these devices have a more fundamental problem: they solve a problem that doesn’t really exist. We’re good at using phones! Most people can unlock their phone and navigate to some app like Google Lens in less time than they’d take to activate a device and say „What is that uh red thing over there”. Voice based interfaces are useful, especially for side tasks such as remembering something for later or re checking the cooking temperature in the middle of cooking, and a conversation based interface is useful for this kind of information retrieval too, but restricting a device to near exclusively audio communication makes it less intuitive and much less efficient
Yeah Tim Cook said "I can't go in to detail right now but I am very excited about what we can share with you in the upcoming weeks" 'bout 8 times when asked about generative AI in last weeks earnings call. Can't be much clearer than that.
@@user-qy2wf2lt6v No, that's code for " stfu, WWDC is in 5 weeks, so stop asking the same question over and over. Ofc. I'm not gonna say anything about what we'll announce in 5 weeks."
The company is being investigated right now by coffee It's a scam product so by scam company? Why would I carry multiple devices around on me when I have another device that does it better than this? Why?
@@phdonme1 It's like how the new Subaru crosstrek no longer has physical controls for the climate control. Physical controls are something lost to time..
@@lachlanlau Subaru is less than 1% of all the vehicles sold in the world So I wouldn't really use them as a measuring stick for what kind of analysis controls people want in cars. I would use Toyota as my measuring stick since they are the number one selling manufacturer in the entire world. I believe all of their vehicles still have analogue controls. For most functions including heating cooling etc Do you understand what I'm saying? Subaru doesn't have a luxury version of their vehicles. Which if you look at Lexus they still use analog controls. I wouldn't say it's lost to time. Even the Lexus LFA has analog controls. Which is one of the most technically crazy Toyota cars besides the LS. Don't let your perception be determined by your line of sight.
@@phdonme1 hifi components are gone, in favour of a phone as a music source. why are people returning to analog? the “real thing” has real appeal also yes i watched the update video and while rabbit itself is a scam, other teenage engineering products are not. just check out Red Means Recoridng and his OP-1.. the control knobs are a fundamental part of using the device and make music production quicker.
I properly enjoyed your review of these devises the most, even beyond MKBHD and MrWhoseTheBoss. Shocked this is my first time watching a video of yours - you got a new sub ❤
As a non native english speaker, sometimes I struggle to get a sense of whether my speaking sounds "natural" or not... like, if what i just said or wrote would be how a native would say that. AI has been very helpful with that: I ask chat GPT to rephrase texts, and maybe quiz me about words and comprehension. I have to say that it's served me very well. (I'm gonna do the same with this post so you guys can judge. This is chat GPT's answer to the question "does this phrase sound natural?" Yes, that phrase sounds quite natural and is grammatically correct! It effectively communicates your thoughts about using AI, like ChatGPT, to improve your English speaking and writing skills. It's great to hear that AI tools like ChatGPT have been helpful for you in improving your language skills! If you have any more questions or need further assistance, feel free to ask.)
And I thought Dave and Marques‘ reviews were harsh, this one tops them (in a honest and good way). Great review and explanation of the whole ‚AI race‘ situation in general, keep it up
In my opinion, this is a "Kickstarter" project, and we are simply backing this project. I dislike backing companies that deliver "half-baked" products, and I felt the same way about the MKBHD review. This product belongs to the Kickstarter platform.
Great analysis. I got a bit impulsive several weeks ago and had ordered the R1 the first time I saw it presented. By now I have seen a number of devastating reviews like this one, and managed to cancel the still pending order for full refund. I agree that smartphones will continue to be the #1 device type, and any and all wearables need to be able to connect to it or they're toast because enforced internet roundtrips for answers will never be fast and reliable enough to provide a satisfactory experience. The short battery life was the final nail in the coffin - babysitting those devices several times a day is ridiculous.
This was highly insightful. Even though I am following tech news, I could not make sense of the whole Apple local machine learning and AI pin bonanza on my own. Thank you!
What's also cool is Chris Latner (a software engineer that built lots of the infrastructure for apples software) is making a new language but also a new compiler to better suit accelerators of today. pretty cool stuff, he did a talk with Kris Jenkins. basically, trying to make our software go brrr on new accelerator cards, such as GPUs, Mining Cards and NPUs.
id give google ALL my data if I could stand outside a venue and ask my own personal AI wheres that damn email with PDF with the tickets for this show not the three hundred others the venue sent me over the years. HERE IT IS YOU BOOKED IT AT 4am when you came home drunk 6 months ago :)
Thanks your the first tech reviewer that said the same thing I did in the other reviewers comments. This all going to be on our phones and if you need a remote interface/mic/screen it will be on our smart watches.
I’m really liking my Meta Ray-Bans. I’d be wearing sunglasses anyways so it’s not really an additional device to carry around, and I find the usage to be pretty intuitive (“hey translate this text I’m looking at”). I’d certainly recommend checking it out as an alternative to the AI Pins reviewed in the video.
I already use my iPhone 15 Pro Max to run Stable Diffusion image generation locally on device via the Draw Things app. It's amazing what these devs made possible. And now imagine what will be possible with the next iPhone coming this year in fall.
People keep comparing the Humane Ai pin's build quality to Apple watch, but the features. These dedicated AI devices are promising magic, and severally missing the mark. Apple is quietly adding machine learning that are truly magic. On device image descriptions, OCR, and background removal are just a taste of new tools to come. I totally believe that AI will become a superpower for smartphones.
@@philamavikane9423 The AI functions that Microsopft has built in or offers are pretty smart and work as they should. They are very well integrated into their programs.
I never heard of these AI wearables before your video, that said I don't even like Alexa on my phone, it just runs too slow. We really do need custom chips to handle these.
I've seen all different parts of your house by now and I'm wondering if you have something that shows more of the interior because I would like to emulate the style, I like a lot of the colors and furniture and shapes you have.
The only thing wrong is that Apple is currently not winning the AI war. MKBHD tests phone assistants every year and Siri often falls well short of Bixby, Google Now, and even Alexa. Things I'll be interesting of he does it this year because of Samsung going all in on AI features.
Great video! I miss a mention though regarding the fact that rabbit r1 is in fact an app and based on android. Curious to hear your opinion on this matter.
In an ideal world, the Humane ai pin actually makes a lot of sense, basically a hands free, screen free phone, minimalist and really helpful. There is no world in which the Rabbit makes sense, it is just an inferior phone
A lot of sense for what? Voice contrl is always a problem , couse is one way only , then yuo need to heair the awnser , and again, and for control transactions as buy something is a mess , do yuo buy something saying "i want this" , and there is no screen, mail ,confirmation and options to cancel by voice , on the other side i can buy Anithing in my phone in a few seconds , and be sure that it was ok. Thats why Amzaon voi e systems fails at all , nobody use as they what
Imagine receiving a sensitive email or message with the humane ai pin. In the most ideal world it is a stupid product. It is more suited towards people with vision disabilities.
You know what's even better? A smartwatch. It can do pretty much everything the humane pin can, while also having not completely a$$ battery life and not needing a $24/month subscription service.
The only thing I'm hoping for is that Siri eventually accomplishes what I want it to do or that it correctly answers the questions I ask; that's just what would be most beneficial right now.
