I was recently left feeling gaslit and betrayed by a tech company that promised an artificial intelligence (AI) named Lamb, which was supposed to be the heart of their new product, the Orange Box Rabbit R1. The company claimed that Lamb could organize my life, text my friends, restock my fridge, and more. Excited by the marketing, I pre-ordered the device and started investigating.
The Rabbit R1 promised to handle tasks like starting my morning routine, ordering breakfast, telling my friends I was running late, and checking my fridge for ingredients. However, the device failed to deliver on these promises. It couldn't directly communicate with others, order ingredients, or even order an Uber.
The real question I wanted to answer was: Does the AI, Lamb, even exist? The company claimed that Lamb was a system that could infer and model human actions on computer applications. But, after a group investigation, it was revealed that Rabbit was not using a new foundational AI model at all. Instead, it was using a language model called chatGPT with some hardcoded scripts.
The Rabbit R1 was supposed to use Lamb to bring AI from words to action, but it turned out that the AI was not controlling websites or understanding them. Instead, it was using a web automation tool called Playwright, which is the opposite of intelligent AI.
The Rabbit R1 takes your question, puts it into chatGPT 3.5 turbo, and if it's something like playing a song on Spotify, it will use hardcoded scripts to navigate websites. These scripts are not AI; they are just a series of commands.
The problem with this setup is that if a user interface changes, the Rabbit R1 can't cope with it. This is because it's not an intelligent AI understanding the page; it's just a bunch of static commands.
The Rabbit R1 is using a platform called Playwright, which is a web automation tool, and it's the opposite of intelligent AI. When apps that Rabbit supports change, they stop working, as people have noticed in videos and on Discord.
The Rabbit team admits that they use Playwright but are not willing to admit that Lamb is not doing much. They claim that lamb is not just the hardcoded scripts but also interacts with the scripts. However, even if that's true, it's not what they promised.
The core selling point of the Rabbit R1 is built on a lie, and it's time for the company to come clean and admit that whatever they're doing today is not what they originally advertised. The Rabbit R1 is not a new foundational AI controlling websites like a human; it's chatGPT with an auto clicker.
In the end, I was able to speak with a Rabbit employee who confirmed that Lamb, as advertised, does not exist and that Lamb was a marketing term. The Rabbit team should come clean and admit that whatever they're doing today is not what they originally advertised.