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    The Cult of AI
    How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future

    I WAS WATCHING a video of a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show for the Rabbit R1, an AI gadget that promises to act as a sort of personal assistant, when a feeling of doom took hold of me.

    It wasn’t just that Rabbit’s CEO Jesse Lyu radiates the energy of a Kirkland-brand Steve Jobs. And it wasn’t even Lyu’s awkward demonstration of how the Rabbit’s camera can recognize a photo of Rick Astley and Rickroll the owner — even though that segment was so cringe it caused me chest pains.

    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.

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    • “I think everybody has a Copilot. Everybody’s making a Copilot. That’s just a great way to accelerate us as humans, right?”neverscared
    • sure its great... accelerate so fast it squashes your already dumbass mind right into further stupidity at the next curve...neverscared
    • ffs - we're all doomed!utopian
    • 1 in 10,000 people ACTUALLY need a personal assistant... the rest of us normies get by just fine.jonny_quest_lives
    • https://www.rabbit.t…yuekit
    • It only costs $200 so I think it's more like a proof of concept of a different kind of device.yuekit
    • It's certainly interesting from a UI design perspective (designed by the company that makes the OP-1 sampler).yuekit
    • Does it make the trip to London in your place? If not, I don't want it.palimpsest
    • is there a left handed user option?jonny_quest_lives
    • Anything to declare?
      Yeah, don’t go to London      nb
    • What NB saidmaikel
    • Combine this AI Rabbit with the other kind of Rabbit device and a whole new level of productivity.ETM
    • Imagine being so simple minded that your worst fear of AI is that it might book you a cliché holidaynewcunt
    • Tell us more.palimpsest
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