WEBVTT 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:45.600 they are also using is Perplexity AI, Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services, I actually don't know 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 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 00:00:58.480 --> 00:01:08.000 this thing is the grok from a company called Curio Toys that was just started recently 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:03:05.440 --> 00:03:08.800 this is weird 00:03:11.200 --> 00:03:13.920 I don't want to speak French can we speak English 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:21.840 of course let's chat in English thank you apparently Grimes yeah uh contributed to the 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:04:27.200 --> 00:04:32.960 like the relationship like like our relation oh like Grimes relationships can be complicated 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 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 00:04:45.760 --> 00:04:48.960 like personalities or character traits that help us play our roles 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 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 00:05:00.400 --> 00:05:04.880 safety is important and zippers can be tricky when you want it to keep everything secure 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:28.640 groc are you able to turn down your volume a bit 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:07:19.760 --> 00:07:26.800 operates or what it runs on curio says that they have paid very stringent attention to 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:35.040 the large language models however curio says that that audio is deleted promptly but regardless 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 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 00:08:43.760 --> 00:08:49.520 can review the transcripts from your child's interactions with the toy and those will be 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:50.960 with faster or balanced performance that's interesting and you can change the voice what 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 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 00:10:00.800 --> 00:10:08.720 i'm seeing masochist optimistic and wise astronaut like chris hadfield 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 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 00:10:22.160 --> 00:10:27.200 influence the toy's knowledge personality and interests yep okay model we got we're currently 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 00:10:33.520 --> 00:10:40.640 balanced diesel slower responses why would you experimental we're going we're going into the 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 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 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 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 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 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:17.680 indoor rocket voice okay so we're seeing we're seeing elements of the personality already 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:12:08.800 --> 00:12:14.080 like a human thing i prefer to think about spaceships zooming through space exploring new planets 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:15:09.280 --> 00:15:15.440 we put in this prompt i put in like optimistic astronaut like chris hatfield canadian icon 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:16:13.680 --> 00:16:18.080 are giving good feedback and guidance so that the guardrails are put in place properly 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 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 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 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 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