I spent four days with the AI gadget of the future, and it was a mess

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I spent four days with the AI gadget of the future, and it was a mess
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The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered gadget that can help you get things done quicker than you're able to with your phone. At least, that's what it's supposed to do.

This past January, a company called Rabbit took CES 2024 by storm. Rabbit used CES to announce its new gadget — the Rabbit R1 — and it was immediately captivating. With a retro design, bright orange paint job, and adorable rabbit logo, it was hard not to get excited about the R1 … even if it wasn’t immediately clear what it was supposed to do.

Related The pitch behind the Rabbit R1 is for it to be “the simplest computer” at your disposal. You press the button on the side of the Rabbit R1, ask a question/give it a command, and that’s the extent of how you get things done. There aren’t any apps to juggle, confusing menus to navigate through, etc. You hold down a button, talk, and the Rabbit R1 handles it.The idea is that you can ask the Rabbit R1 just about anything.

For basic questions — things I would normally perform a Google Search for on my phone — the Rabbit R1 can be quite helpful. When asked if J.J. McCarthy was picked in the NFL Draft, the R1 correctly told me that McCarthy was selected by the Minnesota Vikings as the 10th overall pick. It even provided context that the Vikings traded with the Jets for that selection.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg of the R1’s issues. Asking it about the weather — one of the most basic questions for any computer — often returns hilariously bad results. Oh, and the time you see on the R1 in all of these pictures? It’s showing me the time for Pacific Time even though I live in an area that’s in Eastern Time — and there’s no way to change it.

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