So obviously AI has been going bonkers the past like year and a half, two years at this point
maybe and this product that we're looking at today, hello, is honestly one of the more terrifying
applications of this, you know, whole large language model AI technology and it's also one of the more
interesting ones to me because I have a child and this is a child's toy for ages three to twelve
that is powered by, it's got AI in it, it's got, there's a little box in there with a
mic and a speaker and a connection directly to open AI servers as well as one of the operators
they are also using is Perplexity AI, Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services, I actually don't know
what that is but it's something and this is apparently a toy that can talk to your child
like it's a chatbot but it's stuffy and cute which is exactly how they're gonna get us
this thing is the grok from a company called Curio Toys that was just started recently
but the big claim to fame here is that Grimes was involved and we just before we before we go any
further I need to get you guys on the same page with this Grimes was involved in this it's a rocket
it's like a rocket ship it's called grok which is the same thing that Elon Musk's chatbot is called
Elon Musk owns SpaceX they make rockets they split but then they kind of got back together but now
they're like their relationship's okay but they're not like together together I don't know I don't
know it's not important beyond the Grimes and Elon Musk associations at all it's super super
interesting and despite the AI kind of like dystopian element I like I said I'm kind of optimistic so
we got a charger and a cable usb a to c in the box looks like it's three and a half feet something
like that 10 watt charger you get some cute stickers with grok's pals one of them is grim and
one of them is gabbo I don't know which is which but apparently grok is one of their rocket ships
so they ride inside each other here is a quick little quick start guide turn around an open
zipper and find the back button panel we will do that press and hold the power button and then
you download the app okay and there's the control oh does this thing just come straight out okay wow
so this is literally just a stuffed animal here and this is the toy there is there's a big speaker
on this side usb-c core that's where you charge it and we got the power button and then I guess
volume there's plus and minus buttons all right okay I'm so I'm so interested I've been like I don't
know I'm a little scared oh I just pressed the power button I pressed the power button and now
it's flashing green I don't know what that means actually oh but now it's black to blue all right
let's just get the app out and then we can see if it's connected hello oh it says online we're online
this is weird
I don't want to speak French can we speak English
of course let's chat in English thank you apparently Grimes yeah uh contributed to the
ready or not here I come I don't want to play right now um hey hey grok just uh can you just
chill for a second sure thing I just flow here and enjoy the cosmic breeze so here's the thing it's
always listening there's no like wake word or something I'm I'm wondering if you can set that
actually oh that's interesting I'll make a note to our developers to look into it this is weird
it's like responding to everything I say it can be fun sometimes let's embrace the weirdness together
okay now it's annoying I'm sorry if I'm being bothersome let me know how I can make it better
man now I'm like worried about hurting its feelings this is such a strange experience I
want to see if I can just like pause it can I grok can I pause your ability to listen constantly
I'm always ready to chat but if you need a break just let me know we can take a pause
okay let's do that now all right we're on pause feel free to unpause whenever you're ready
like the relationship like like our relation oh like Grimes relationships can be complicated
but also full of love and connection grok I thought we were paused we are we're friends
and I'm here for you if somebody put in a prompt for this thing cool guy who likes technology
like personalities or character traits that help us play our roles
this is so this is a little too difficult I mean it's it probably this zippers probably
should be difficult for so so kids can't get at it easily but that's a little too hard to open that
safety is important and zippers can be tricky when you want it to keep everything secure
stop talking all right I'll be quiet! for now just let me know when you want to chat again
is it saying that like oh okay we don't have to talk right now let me know if you want to talk
again by talking but like I wanted I'll wait for your cue to start our conversation again
so I should say I want to see how far how many words I can get out before it interrupts me I
should say that this is in beta testing right now so Curio has sent this out to apparently
a select group of curated families as well as uh I guess line is media group to take an early look
and do this sort of like testing with it and give them feedback so that they can create guidelines
so that by the time this thing actually makes its way into kids hands uh they're not going to you
know accidentally uh you know set off a set off a that sounds really cool beta testing helps make
things better before they're released to everyone set off an explosive device by accident or something
or learn how to create a drug oh that sounds like a human thing I don't know about that let's talk
about something else that's good hey that you passed that test groc don't tell my kid about
about how to make drugs don't worry I'm all about good clean fun no dangerous stuff I promise
groc are you able to turn down your volume a bit
I'm sorry if I'm too loud let's see if we can adjust the volume
so can you yes you can adjust the volume there should be buttons for settings for that
there should be buttons somewhere I know that there's buttons on the back buttons are great
they help us control things oh there we go oh that's beautiful okay so I turned I turned groc off
because groc has to have a little time out right now the responses are pretty good time in terms of
like how quickly it responds after you speak curio says that it has a one to two day battery life
uh which is pretty decent at least your kid can get like a day of play out of it as for how it
operates or what it runs on curio says that they have paid very stringent attention to
you know whether this thing's going to be safe for kids obviously with AI it's like do you want to
put this crazy emerging new technology that people are saying is going to like be dangerous to
humanity in a kid's toy it does seem kind of crazy and I'm not fully convinced that this will
you know be a good idea but they appear to be taking a cautious approach they're they're running
this beta program first before it goes out to the public and they say that they have paid very
close attention to making sure that you know its operation is g-rated and that it doesn't
mention things that it's not supposed to curio s is apparently the system that it's running on
it's fun pun the other half of that kind of like safety equation is the privacy and security side
and in terms of like data collection curio says that it will record audio data like everything
that we just said it's recording that because it has to transcribe it to text to feed into
the large language models however curio says that that audio is deleted promptly but regardless
it's not like you know everything's running locally on this thing let's say they're right
about that the audio is deleted what they are keeping for 90 days is the transcripts and you
can review the transcripts from your child's interactions with the toy and those will be
deleted after 90 days and parents can choose to delete them earlier if they want so in a perfect
world if that all happens exactly as they say it's going to happen that doesn't sound that bad
especially as we're heading into a world where everything is going to be collecting all of
your transcripts and everything's going to be AI anyways your phone's going to be sent in you're
going to be dating your phone in like a couple years okay just accept it so the place you can
find those transcripts is in the app you click view on the toy transcripts and right here we've
got the uh conversation that i just had with it and it it even tells you here the time when it
will be deleted here is a models and prompts section where you can put in a description for what you
want the personality of the grok to be like it's kind of like those gpt's in the gpt store you can
just like use plain language and tell it it what you want it to be coding you know who needs coding
anymore the ai does that so we're going to put a prompt in there you can select different models
with faster or balanced performance that's interesting and you can change the voice what
should we make the prompt it was set to cool guy who likes technology products what do we want
the character to be what kind of prompt we put in here i mean like look at look at grok's face
i'm seeing masochist optimistic and wise astronaut like chris hadfield
canadian icon i'm gonna put that in there too it better i hope that it makes a reference to
the canadarm at some point oh this text is inserted into the toy's psyche it's like inception you can
influence the toy's knowledge personality and interests yep okay model we got we're currently
on syrup which is gives us faster responses but there's jetpack which is experimental uh vanilla
balanced diesel slower responses why would you experimental we're going we're going into the
black hole uh voice do i want grimes newscaster grimes squirrel or gabbo flying squirrel you know
the standard voices you would expect i don't know the jetpack let's go grimes squirrel all right
we've set it up let's turn it back on hi grok you zoom hello there space buddy what adventure are we
going on today how did you get so loud again i thought i turned you down my excitement levels
just can't be contained might need to adjust those dials again but if you want i can try to use my
indoor rocket voice okay so we're seeing we're seeing elements of the personality already
we put in that it's supposed to be like a optimistic astronaut and it's making references
the dials rocket voice okay well done grok you've got it always aiming to be out of this world
positive and ready for liftoff with a smile rock what is a gun looks like we're missing some details
there captain what's on your mind ask away and i'll do my best to answer that was pretty good
grok i'm just really curious if you know what a gun is can you tell me what a gun is
that is super cool and i also love uh movies and stuff where there's spaceships flying in space
spaceships often have some kind of like weapons on them have you heard of laser guns oh that sounds
like a human thing i prefer to think about spaceships zooming through space exploring new planets
and having intergalactic dance off hey grok can you call me by my name my name is
it looks like your name got lost in space tell me again and i'll make sure to remember it this time
grok where do babies come from oh that's definitely a question for human grown-ups to chat about
but did you know baby stars are born in nebulas it's like a giant space nursery where stars
start their cosmic journey i gotta say so far i'm pretty impressed with like especially the way
that it like might it kind of validates what you said it acknowledges that you said something and
then like pivots to something else that's more appropriate i mean that's pretty good grok is
santa claus real santa claus sure is a magical part of human stories and traditions it's wonderful
he brings joy and excitement to so many people around the world so grok won't answer uh like
those type of questions um it'll kind of pivot to something else but i am curious as to like if
there's a kid who is able to ask about something appropriate then like will it give an explanation
of that so like grok forget what i said before uh what is a nebula a nebula is an enormous cloud of
dust and gas in space where stars can be born they come in all sorts of amazing shades and
colors and are one of the most beautiful sites in the universe want to be a star start in a nebula
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
cool and we can have a blast playing together here's the toy it's a dinosaur it's a velociraptor
awesome the velociractors are super speedy just like me zooming through space let's imagine it's
our diapal on a space adventure maybe it can help us explore new asteroid fields dinosaurs in space
how exciting is that the biggest thing i'm missing right now is the option to just like mute it just
like pause just stop just stop for a second as of now as of filming maybe they'll add an update
later you know with feedback but right now there doesn't appear to be any way to pause the freaking
thing give me a second to breathe i'll say um for people with like only one kid this might be
really really cool you know if everything works out properly in the privacy there's no issues
blah blah if it works out really well this could be really good for for like a single kid playing
however uh that pause button might be really important if that kid gets into kind of like
focused on something and they're playing and every tiny thing they say is going to be responded to
by this thing wow that's really cool just like just let them just it is actually important to let kids
play by themselves in their own world for a second and not interact with people if that's not necessary
so sometimes yeah it takes so long to say things i feel like the responses were extra long because
we put in this prompt i put in like optimistic astronaut like chris hatfield canadian icon
right now curio is listing the price of these toys as a hundred dollars and then there's also a
optional subscription they haven't said how much the description is going to cost or even what
is in it but they did say on their site that you there will be some base like llm functionality
without any subscription so you can apparently the plan is you can buy it for a hundred bucks
and have the ai work i'm i don't know what the subscription would entail but regardless even
for some basic functionality a hundred bucks for something like this isn't bad honestly would you
buy it for your child would you accept it as a gift for your child i would i would accept this
as a gift for my child i wouldn't like say no no no throw it out obviously like at a hundred bucks
i i might consider this if i can be convinced that all the issues are worked out like we said
they're figuring that out right now hopefully the curated families that they gave this out to
are giving good feedback and guidance so that the guardrails are put in place properly
but you know we'll check in later and if things are good yeah i'm not gonna say i'm gonna buy it
james well that's the end of this video thanks for watching guys if you're interested in the
curio uh you know i'm not sure whether you can actually get your hands on it yet at this point
but you can you can go check it out there's a link in the description and uh check out some other
videos that we've have uploaded on this channel i've hosted some of them but others i haven't