Across all industries, organizations are rapidly embracing generative AI. Among them, makers of home appliances like fridges and ovens. Generative AI in your oven? Why not? Ater all, AI has been creeping into our homes for years (think smart lightbulbs and Alexa) – but thanks to generative AI, these interactions will become even more human and more personal.
Imagine, for example, asking your washing machine whether it’s safe to wash a beloved item of clothing on a certain setting – literally, asking it out loud or via an app. Or you could say to your fridge, “Hey, when am I going to run out of milk?” and it’ll tell you. Integrating generative AI into everyday products could lead to a new era of smart appliances that are not only more adaptive to our needs but also more interactive and engaging.
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This is so fucking stupid it’s almost painful.
Ugh. I don’t want generative AI in any of my appliances. Here’s hoping everything lasts long enough that I can avoid this trash.
this format of headline needs to die.
“coming to your appliances” no the hell it’s not it’s coming to appliances on the market. which you can choose to buy, or install the app onto.
feels like fatalist manipulation tactics to subconsciously get you to accept that replacing appliances every two years is normal.
Lol, right?
My microwave was made in 96. Washing machine in 2000.
I’m am seriously getting tired of having to buy, restore, and maintain antique devices/cars/electronics/etc just to get away from this cancerous “smart” tech shit that is infecting everything.
Hell yeah, I want my appliances to misinterpret my commands and hallucinate functions they aren’t capable of.
The GREAT Google assistant can’t even call a contact on my list if it has a space in its name, I think I’ll wait.
Hard pass. Which ever vendor keeps making dumb appliances gets my money. I can live with basic “smart” appliances as well. The ones that connect to WiFi simply to tell when say the wash cycle is done by sending a message to your mobile. But I don’t need no flipping AI crap in my house thank you.
If you really want that for some reason, that sounds like a job for one AI Smart Assistant. Doing it by having a different App and LLM implementation for every appliance seems stupid in so many ways.
Especially if they don’t run them local, but essentially bundle the completely different service of a cloud hosted LLM with a fucking Tumble Dryer.
Have we reached and surpassed peak intellectual curiosity? Did we learn nothing from all the “smart” crap of the last decade? Why is this even an idea someone had, and why weren’t they laughed out of the room, presented with a box of their personal effects, and escorted off the premises by security?
asking your washing machine whether it’s safe to wash a beloved item of clothing on a certain setting
Or, you know, just read the damn label on the clothing that tells you exactly how to wash it. If the article of clothing is so beloved, you’d have either read that or ruined it already.
Or you could say to your fridge, “Hey, when am I going to run out of milk?"
OR you could open the goddamn door and fucking look. Jesus christ. It’s not like my fat ass doesn’t need the exercise or know where the fridge is.
Integrating generative AI into everyday products could lead to a new era of smart appliances that are not only more adaptive to our needs but also more interactive and engaging.
I’ll admit, sometimes life can get lonely, but if I start talking to the washing machine, lock me the fuck up in the loony bin.
Hard pass. I didn’t need a Wi-Fi toaster, I don’t need this either.
PronHub on my refrigerator has been a lifesaver though. That is the pinnacle achievement of a lifetime.
I’m imagining it authoritatively telling me it’s safe to wash even though it has no idea.
Not if I can help it. If it’s anything like “internet of things” it’ll be a dumb gimmick relegated to some overpriced gadgets that I don’t want anyway.
Sounds cool but what’s the catch? How is the consumer being used and/or screwed this time? I would to embrace new tech but nowadays, companies always seem to be planning some bs.
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(honestly I can also see the AI fad as a little less “extract more money” and more “make the investors think we’re doing something so they A. don’t lose their shit and B. think we’re high tech”)
The idea is that generative AI will enable Samsung products to get a better understanding of how consumers use the products – for example, an oven recognizing what is being cooked in it or a fridge recognizing what ingredients are inside. This could allow appliances to understand users’ needs and respond accordingly.
“Understand users’ needs” being a euphemism for “spy on users’ habits and sell that info to advertisers.”
We’ve gone full circle: from having a manual for your new appliance, to having a LLM confidently make up some incorrect info about how to use your new appliance.
AI generated recipes
Every AI generated recipe I’ve seen has been fucked up. Either the ratios are wrong, they miss out or add ingredients, give incorrect temps and cook times, etc.
But I guess if you’re terrible at cooking, you wouldn’t notice.
