Phones are the ultimate AI gadget

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Today on the flagship podcast of dedicated AI hardware: The Verge’s David Pierce and Allison Johnson debate whether the emergence of standalone AI gadgets like the Humane Pin and the Rabbit R1 are better off as apps or should exist as its own hardware. Humane AI Pin review: not even close The Humane AI Pin worked better than I expected — until it didn’t A morning with the Rabbit R1: a fun, funky, unfinished AI gadget Can Rabbit’s R1 outsmart the smartphone assistants? Let’s find out! The future of AI gadgets is just phones The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses actually make the future look cool The Verge’s Alex Heath joins the show to discuss Meta’s big move into AI with its multimodal AI smart glasses and a new AI model called Llama 3. Q&A: Mark Zuckerberg on winning the AI race Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets Zuckerberg says it will take Meta years to make money from generative AI Nilay Patel answers a question from The Vergecast Hotline about Microsoft and antitrust. Microsoft splits Teams from Office as antitrust pressure ramps up Microsoft and OpenAI deal may face anti-trust investigations in the EU. Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Virgcast, the flagship podcast of dedicated AI hardware.
0:07.0	I'm a friend David Pierce and I have a label maker.
0:11.0	One of the things I've learned about myself
0:12.8	is that I procrastinate by organizing,
0:16.3	which mostly means I just like take a thing
0:18.6	that's over here and put it sort of arbitrarily over here
0:22.2	although it improves nothing,
0:23.6	but it like scratches my brain in a very helpful way
0:26.7	that makes me feel like I'm accomplishing things
0:28.6	even when I'm mostly not.
0:30.3	But now that I have a label maker,
0:32.3	I'm actually gonna get stuff done.
0:34.0	There's the spice rack over there.
0:36.0	I'm going to label all the spices, so I stop using paprika instead of cinnamon accidentally.
0:40.0	I have a bunch of tea up here.
0:42.0	I'm going to label all of that so I stop drinking
0:44.3	caffeinated tea at night and staying up all night. I'm going to label the baby bottles over here
0:49.1	so I know what he's supposed to be drinking out of and what we're not supposed to be drinking out of
0:52.6	anymore. I'm going to label the milk with the word milk, which will accomplish
0:56.6	nothing but will make me laugh every time I pull the milk out of the fridge.
0:59.4	I'm just going to label everything. And then my wife is going to come home from work and have a lot of feelings about what happens. So we'll see.
1:06.7	Anyway, we are not here to talk about label makers. We are here to talk tech and we have a lot to do on the show today. We're going to talk to
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