You may have seen this sleek little orange device around the internet lately. The Rabbit R1 is a handheld device that uses AI to complete tasks for you like ordering food, playing music, and can even book places to stay on Airbnb. In essence, the device is able to automate tasks for you across the web, Android, and iOS. It can interact with user interfaces (UI) and do all of the taps necessary to say.. book a hotel, order pizzas, and more.
I think you see where I am going with this. When I heard about this device and how you can “train it” to complete tasks on any app interface, I immediately thought “would it work with Amazon Flex?”
No one can be sure yet because the device has yet to launch, but I did some digging and the Rabbit R1 could potentially be trained as an Amazon Flex block grabber. But before you decide to drop $200 on the preorder, let’s see if it’s worth it.
Down The Rabbit Hole
The Rabbit R1 is a highly speculative device that is making big promises and riding a large wave of hype. Many people are engaged in wishful thinking when it comes to what the device is capable of. It operates using what they call a “Large Action Model”, which is claimed to be able to understand human intentions and can execute commands like a human assistant would.
Meaning, you can “teach” the AI in “training mode” to do things that would normally take you multiple taps. In training mode the AI observes your actions in a user interface like booking a hotel. Then once it see’s you do it, the AI now knows how to do that task for you.
So, in theory you could have the Rabbit AI observe while you catch a block on the Amazon Flex app and now it will know how to do it. Then all you would have to do is speak out loud to the Rabbit R1 device “Hey go catch me an Amazon Flex block for 11:30 AM” and, with fingers crossed, it would go and execute that task for you.
Too Good to Be True?
As exciting as it sounds what I described above likely will not work. Tapping for Amazon Flex blocks has many variables and there is no guarantee how long it will take. You could be tapping anywhere from an hour to 15 minutes. Will the Rabbit AI execute a task that takes an up to an hour? Probably not out of the box. It will likely take some updates and tweaking to get that to work.
Then it comes down to a matter of speed. Will the AI be fast enough for it to secure a block? It depends. If it has to send data back and fourth from the cloud then it’s probably too slow.
See my detailed breakdown of the device here:
Can It Solve CAPTCHA?
It’s possible that the Rabbit R1 will be smart enough to solve a CAPTCHA puzzle. However there are legal issues when it comes to bypassing a systems CAPTCHA. It’s not supposed to be done by bots or AI and if the Rabbit AI is capable of it, the developers might face legal issues and be forced to disable that feature.
Is It Worth It?
As a whole I believe that $200 is a good price for this device. It’s definitely a novelty device and not many people will actually need it. A smartphone can do most of the stuff that the Rabbit R1 can do. But it’s definitely captured the imagination of many people including me. I cant wait to try it out and play around with it’s capabilities.
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