The Moxie robot that used cloud processing for a large language model was designed to be a companion and education tool for autistic children, and it’s being unceremoniously shut down by the owners. This absolutely insensitive and destructive move practically demonstrates that Apple’s on-device approach is right.
Launched in 2020, Moxie was billed as an AI-based robotic companion for children. It offered hope to parents of autistic children with the possibility of helping social development. It showed great promise to help autistic kids in particular.
I considered one for my children, but when I found it, we were in the teeth of early COVID and I had other concerns. I’m glad I didn’t get one, because a series of bad decisions by the operating company means that the robot is dying in the next few days.
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