> No, the real foreboding came during a segment when Lyu breathlessly explained how the Rabbit could order pizza for you, telling it “the most-ordered option is

> No, the real foreboding came during a segment when Lyu breathlessly explained how the Rabbit could order pizza for you, telling it “the most-ordered option is fine,” leaving his choice of dinner up to the Pizza Hut website. After that, he proceeded to have the Rabbit plan an entire trip to London for him. The device very clearly just pulled a bunch of sights to see from some top-10 list on the internet, one that was very likely AI-generated itself. > Most of the Rabbit’s capabilities were well in line with existing voice-activated products, like Amazon Alexa. Its claim to being something special is its ability to create a “digital twin” of the user, which can directly utilize all of your apps so that you, the person, don’t have to. It can even use Midjourney to generate AI images for you, removing yet another level of human involvement and driving us all deeper into the uncanny valley. > We know very little about how the Rabbit will actually interact with all of these apps, or how secure your data will be, but the first 10,000 preorder units sold out at CES the instant they were announced. This just shows why journalism is a pathetic industry. I actually had the exact same feelings as the author when this product was first revealed. It turns out, the way it interacts with apps is very interesting. I suggest you all watch this interview of the founder to hear how he explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-MNgciL5hw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-MNgciL5hw It's not just interacting directly with APIs. But what does this say about an industry where someone who's job is to write about this knows less than me who is only somewhat interested in this topic? Also, cults and cool new things have one thing in common, a lot of very excited people. (and no, I'm not buying a rabbit r1, I was just curious about it because when I first saw it I was wondering why this couldn't just be an app)