Looking at the latest TRDR Pocket video games console, you would never think it hosted a highly sophisticated AI voice assistant.
The £399 Gameboy-like device, which is the second handheld console developed by British company Go Games, has a boxy, retro appearance, with a shiny aluminium body and a 3.5-inch touchscreen display.
It runs , giving users access to over 600,000 games and apps from the Play Store, including and Call of Duty.
The original TRDR Pocket, which was released in 2021 in partnership with American rapper and social media influencer Soulja Boy, shipped over 100,000 units.
However, the reviews were far from glowing – with some pointing out it was , while others complained that the small touch screen made it and play certain games like shooters.
But the new TRDR Pocket ‘Series 2’ has a trick up its sleeve; each of the three models comes with its own built-in AI ‘personality’, which users can chat to while they’re playing.
These AI personalities, named Scarlet, Tony and Julia, are surprisingly advanced – allowing users to have much more natural conversations than they would with rival voice assistants like Siri and Alexa, for example.
The AI is so advanced, in fact, that Go Games received a valuation of £250 million during its last funding round in May 2022, backed by a raft of major investors including Conservative peer Lord Paul Deighton and his wife Lady Deighton.
‘From the moment Gianni demonstrated Go Games’ ground-breaking AI, it was clear that this technology was transformative both for our customers and for its broader potential applications,’ said Lady Deighton.
Now Gianni O’Connor, CEO and Founder of Go Games, claims it could be the first AI in the world to pass the infamous Turing Test, developed by Alan Turing in 1950 to assess a machine’s ability to mimic human intelligence.
This claim will be put to the test during a private event at the Science Museum in London on 20 August, where O’Connor plans to demonstrate the AI’s abilities in front of an array of tech specialists from the corporate and academic world, and in the presence of a third-party judge.
And if that wasn’t enough, he’s also planning to launch three of the TRDR Pocket consoles into space today, so they can take part in the first ever conversation between gaming systems outside of Earth’s atmosphere.
‘We’re trying to build the world’s most advanced AI.We think we have achieved it. It’s definitely the most advanced consumer AI to date,’ O’Connor told MailOnline.
The £399 Gameboy-like device, which is the second handheld console developed by British company Go Games, has a boxy, retro appearance, with a shiny aluminium body and expresswebtech a 3.5-inch touchscreen display
The new TRDR Pocket ‘Series 2’ has a trick up its sleeve; each of the three models comes with its own built-in AI ‘personality’, which users can chat to while they’re playing
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