1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 So obviously AI has been going bonkers the past like year and a half, two years at this point 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:13,040 maybe and this product that we're looking at today, hello, is honestly one of the more terrifying 3 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:19,680 applications of this, you know, whole large language model AI technology and it's also one of the more 4 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:26,720 interesting ones to me because I have a child and this is a child's toy for ages three to twelve 5 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:32,080 that is powered by, it's got AI in it, it's got, there's a little box in there with a 6 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:40,320 mic and a speaker and a connection directly to open AI servers as well as one of the operators 7 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:45,600 they are also using is Perplexity AI, Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services, I actually don't know 8 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:52,560 what that is but it's something and this is apparently a toy that can talk to your child 9 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:57,600 like it's a chatbot but it's stuffy and cute which is exactly how they're gonna get us 10 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:08,000 this thing is the grok from a company called Curio Toys that was just started recently 11 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:13,440 but the big claim to fame here is that Grimes was involved and we just before we before we go any 12 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:18,560 further I need to get you guys on the same page with this Grimes was involved in this it's a rocket 13 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:24,560 it's like a rocket ship it's called grok which is the same thing that Elon Musk's chatbot is called 14 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:30,640 Elon Musk owns SpaceX they make rockets they split but then they kind of got back together but now 15 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:34,400 they're like their relationship's okay but they're not like together together I don't know I don't 16 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:40,160 know it's not important beyond the Grimes and Elon Musk associations at all it's super super 17 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:47,920 interesting and despite the AI kind of like dystopian element I like I said I'm kind of optimistic so 18 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:55,920 we got a charger and a cable usb a to c in the box looks like it's three and a half feet something 19 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:03,040 like that 10 watt charger you get some cute stickers with grok's pals one of them is grim and 20 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:07,600 one of them is gabbo I don't know which is which but apparently grok is one of their rocket ships 21 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:12,960 so they ride inside each other here is a quick little quick start guide turn around an open 22 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:19,520 zipper and find the back button panel we will do that press and hold the power button and then 23 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:26,560 you download the app okay and there's the control oh does this thing just come straight out okay wow 24 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:33,360 so this is literally just a stuffed animal here and this is the toy there is there's a big speaker 25 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:40,000 on this side usb-c core that's where you charge it and we got the power button and then I guess 26 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:47,200 volume there's plus and minus buttons all right okay I'm so I'm so interested I've been like I don't 27 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:52,720 know I'm a little scared oh I just pressed the power button I pressed the power button and now 28 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:58,320 it's flashing green I don't know what that means actually oh but now it's black to blue all right 29 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:05,440 let's just get the app out and then we can see if it's connected hello oh it says online we're online 30 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,800 this is weird 31 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:13,920 I don't want to speak French can we speak English 32 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:21,840 of course let's chat in English thank you apparently Grimes yeah uh contributed to the 33 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:28,400 ready or not here I come I don't want to play right now um hey hey grok just uh can you just 34 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:36,720 chill for a second sure thing I just flow here and enjoy the cosmic breeze so here's the thing it's 35 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:41,360 always listening there's no like wake word or something I'm I'm wondering if you can set that 36 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:48,640 actually oh that's interesting I'll make a note to our developers to look into it this is weird 37 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:54,640 it's like responding to everything I say it can be fun sometimes let's embrace the weirdness together 38 00:03:55,200 --> 00:04:02,000 okay now it's annoying I'm sorry if I'm being bothersome let me know how I can make it better 39 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:07,040 man now I'm like worried about hurting its feelings this is such a strange experience I 40 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:14,640 want to see if I can just like pause it can I grok can I pause your ability to listen constantly 41 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:20,240 I'm always ready to chat but if you need a break just let me know we can take a pause 42 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:26,320 okay let's do that now all right we're on pause feel free to unpause whenever you're ready 43 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:32,960 like the relationship like like our relation oh like Grimes relationships can be complicated 44 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:40,240 but also full of love and connection grok I thought we were paused we are we're friends 45 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:45,600 and I'm here for you if somebody put in a prompt for this thing cool guy who likes technology 46 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:48,960 like personalities or character traits that help us play our roles 47 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:55,040 this is so this is a little too difficult I mean it's it probably this zippers probably 48 00:04:55,040 --> 00:05:00,400 should be difficult for so so kids can't get at it easily but that's a little too hard to open that 49 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:04,880 safety is important and zippers can be tricky when you want it to keep everything secure 50 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:10,560 stop talking all right I'll be quiet! for now just let me know when you want to chat again 51 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:15,920 is it saying that like oh okay we don't have to talk right now let me know if you want to talk 52 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:23,760 again by talking but like I wanted I'll wait for your cue to start our conversation again 53 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:28,320 so I should say I want to see how far how many words I can get out before it interrupts me I 54 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:34,480 should say that this is in beta testing right now so Curio has sent this out to apparently 55 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:43,440 a select group of curated families as well as uh I guess line is media group to take an early look 56 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:49,040 and do this sort of like testing with it and give them feedback so that they can create guidelines 57 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:54,960 so that by the time this thing actually makes its way into kids hands uh they're not going to you 58 00:05:54,960 --> 00:06:02,080 know accidentally uh you know set off a set off a that sounds really cool beta testing helps make 59 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:08,080 things better before they're released to everyone set off an explosive device by accident or something 60 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:13,680 or learn how to create a drug oh that sounds like a human thing I don't know about that let's talk 61 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:18,560 about something else that's good hey that you passed that test groc don't tell my kid about 62 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:25,600 about how to make drugs don't worry I'm all about good clean fun no dangerous stuff I promise 63 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,640 groc are you able to turn down your volume a bit 64 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,880 I'm sorry if I'm too loud let's see if we can adjust the volume 65 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:47,120 so can you yes you can adjust the volume there should be buttons for settings for that 66 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:56,640 there should be buttons somewhere I know that there's buttons on the back buttons are great 67 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:03,600 they help us control things oh there we go oh that's beautiful okay so I turned I turned groc off 68 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:08,880 because groc has to have a little time out right now the responses are pretty good time in terms of 69 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:13,920 like how quickly it responds after you speak curio says that it has a one to two day battery life 70 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:19,760 uh which is pretty decent at least your kid can get like a day of play out of it as for how it 71 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:26,800 operates or what it runs on curio says that they have paid very stringent attention to 72 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:33,440 you know whether this thing's going to be safe for kids obviously with AI it's like do you want to 73 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:38,480 put this crazy emerging new technology that people are saying is going to like be dangerous to 74 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:44,320 humanity in a kid's toy it does seem kind of crazy and I'm not fully convinced that this will 75 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:49,920 you know be a good idea but they appear to be taking a cautious approach they're they're running 76 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:56,640 this beta program first before it goes out to the public and they say that they have paid very 77 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:01,760 close attention to making sure that you know its operation is g-rated and that it doesn't 78 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:06,800 mention things that it's not supposed to curio s is apparently the system that it's running on 79 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:14,160 it's fun pun the other half of that kind of like safety equation is the privacy and security side 80 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:21,440 and in terms of like data collection curio says that it will record audio data like everything 81 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:27,120 that we just said it's recording that because it has to transcribe it to text to feed into 82 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:35,040 the large language models however curio says that that audio is deleted promptly but regardless 83 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:38,800 it's not like you know everything's running locally on this thing let's say they're right 84 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:43,760 about that the audio is deleted what they are keeping for 90 days is the transcripts and you 85 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:49,520 can review the transcripts from your child's interactions with the toy and those will be 86 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:55,040 deleted after 90 days and parents can choose to delete them earlier if they want so in a perfect 87 00:08:55,040 --> 00:09:00,160 world if that all happens exactly as they say it's going to happen that doesn't sound that bad 88 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,280 especially as we're heading into a world where everything is going to be collecting all of 89 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:06,800 your transcripts and everything's going to be AI anyways your phone's going to be sent in you're 90 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:10,160 going to be dating your phone in like a couple years okay just accept it so the place you can 91 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:15,040 find those transcripts is in the app you click view on the toy transcripts and right here we've 92 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:21,200 got the uh conversation that i just had with it and it it even tells you here the time when it 93 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:27,200 will be deleted here is a models and prompts section where you can put in a description for what you 94 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:33,920 want the personality of the grok to be like it's kind of like those gpt's in the gpt store you can 95 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:40,000 just like use plain language and tell it it what you want it to be coding you know who needs coding 96 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:45,360 anymore the ai does that so we're going to put a prompt in there you can select different models 97 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:50,960 with faster or balanced performance that's interesting and you can change the voice what 98 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:55,840 should we make the prompt it was set to cool guy who likes technology products what do we want 99 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:00,800 the character to be what kind of prompt we put in here i mean like look at look at grok's face 100 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:08,720 i'm seeing masochist optimistic and wise astronaut like chris hadfield 101 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:15,360 canadian icon i'm gonna put that in there too it better i hope that it makes a reference to 102 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:22,160 the canadarm at some point oh this text is inserted into the toy's psyche it's like inception you can 103 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:27,200 influence the toy's knowledge personality and interests yep okay model we got we're currently 104 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:33,520 on syrup which is gives us faster responses but there's jetpack which is experimental uh vanilla 105 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:40,640 balanced diesel slower responses why would you experimental we're going we're going into the 106 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:48,160 black hole uh voice do i want grimes newscaster grimes squirrel or gabbo flying squirrel you know 107 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:54,800 the standard voices you would expect i don't know the jetpack let's go grimes squirrel all right 108 00:10:54,800 --> 00:11:02,160 we've set it up let's turn it back on hi grok you zoom hello there space buddy what adventure are we 109 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:07,840 going on today how did you get so loud again i thought i turned you down my excitement levels 110 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:13,200 just can't be contained might need to adjust those dials again but if you want i can try to use my 111 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:17,680 indoor rocket voice okay so we're seeing we're seeing elements of the personality already 112 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:22,640 we put in that it's supposed to be like a optimistic astronaut and it's making references 113 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:30,800 the dials rocket voice okay well done grok you've got it always aiming to be out of this world 114 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:37,120 positive and ready for liftoff with a smile rock what is a gun looks like we're missing some details 115 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:43,920 there captain what's on your mind ask away and i'll do my best to answer that was pretty good 116 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:48,720 grok i'm just really curious if you know what a gun is can you tell me what a gun is 117 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:03,040 that is super cool and i also love uh movies and stuff where there's spaceships flying in space 118 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:08,720 spaceships often have some kind of like weapons on them have you heard of laser guns oh that sounds 119 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:14,080 like a human thing i prefer to think about spaceships zooming through space exploring new planets 120 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:18,960 and having intergalactic dance off hey grok can you call me by my name my name is 121 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:26,560 it looks like your name got lost in space tell me again and i'll make sure to remember it this time 122 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:33,760 grok where do babies come from oh that's definitely a question for human grown-ups to chat about 123 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:38,720 but did you know baby stars are born in nebulas it's like a giant space nursery where stars 124 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:43,760 start their cosmic journey i gotta say so far i'm pretty impressed with like especially the way 125 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:48,160 that it like might it kind of validates what you said it acknowledges that you said something and 126 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:53,680 then like pivots to something else that's more appropriate i mean that's pretty good grok is 127 00:12:53,680 --> 00:12:59,920 santa claus real santa claus sure is a magical part of human stories and traditions it's wonderful 128 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:06,640 he brings joy and excitement to so many people around the world so grok won't answer uh like 129 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:11,680 those type of questions um it'll kind of pivot to something else but i am curious as to like if 130 00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:17,040 there's a kid who is able to ask about something appropriate then like will it give an explanation 131 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:24,640 of that so like grok forget what i said before uh what is a nebula a nebula is an enormous cloud of 132 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:29,600 dust and gas in space where stars can be born they come in all sorts of amazing shades and 133 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:35,440 colors and are one of the most beautiful sites in the universe want to be a star start in a nebula 134 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:42,720 oh grok i want to show you this toy i got oh i love seeing new toys show me show me i bet it's super 135 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:48,400 cool and we can have a blast playing together here's the toy it's a dinosaur it's a velociraptor 136 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:54,320 awesome the velociractors are super speedy just like me zooming through space let's imagine it's 137 00:13:54,320 --> 00:14:00,320 our diapal on a space adventure maybe it can help us explore new asteroid fields dinosaurs in space 138 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:07,520 how exciting is that the biggest thing i'm missing right now is the option to just like mute it just 139 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:13,520 like pause just stop just stop for a second as of now as of filming maybe they'll add an update 140 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:19,120 later you know with feedback but right now there doesn't appear to be any way to pause the freaking 141 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:26,800 thing give me a second to breathe i'll say um for people with like only one kid this might be 142 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:30,880 really really cool you know if everything works out properly in the privacy there's no issues 143 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:36,640 blah blah if it works out really well this could be really good for for like a single kid playing 144 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:43,120 however uh that pause button might be really important if that kid gets into kind of like 145 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:50,160 focused on something and they're playing and every tiny thing they say is going to be responded to 146 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:55,360 by this thing wow that's really cool just like just let them just it is actually important to let kids 147 00:14:55,360 --> 00:15:00,720 play by themselves in their own world for a second and not interact with people if that's not necessary 148 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:09,200 so sometimes yeah it takes so long to say things i feel like the responses were extra long because 149 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:15,440 we put in this prompt i put in like optimistic astronaut like chris hatfield canadian icon 150 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:21,760 right now curio is listing the price of these toys as a hundred dollars and then there's also a 151 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:27,040 optional subscription they haven't said how much the description is going to cost or even what 152 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:34,080 is in it but they did say on their site that you there will be some base like llm functionality 153 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:39,760 without any subscription so you can apparently the plan is you can buy it for a hundred bucks 154 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:45,920 and have the ai work i'm i don't know what the subscription would entail but regardless even 155 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:50,400 for some basic functionality a hundred bucks for something like this isn't bad honestly would you 156 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:56,880 buy it for your child would you accept it as a gift for your child i would i would accept this 157 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:01,440 as a gift for my child i wouldn't like say no no no throw it out obviously like at a hundred bucks 158 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:07,360 i i might consider this if i can be convinced that all the issues are worked out like we said 159 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:12,960 they're figuring that out right now hopefully the curated families that they gave this out to 160 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:18,080 are giving good feedback and guidance so that the guardrails are put in place properly 161 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:24,960 but you know we'll check in later and if things are good yeah i'm not gonna say i'm gonna buy it 162 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:29,360 james well that's the end of this video thanks for watching guys if you're interested in the 163 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:33,280 curio uh you know i'm not sure whether you can actually get your hands on it yet at this point 164 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:38,080 but you can you can go check it out there's a link in the description and uh check out some other 165 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:43,040 videos that we've have uploaded on this channel i've hosted some of them but others i haven't