Light switches can also not be wifi. Hell, id personally prefer them not to

AI chat bots are actually a useful workaround for shitty web uis now. When you don't know which icon is hiding the thing you want, you can just ask the AI to do it for you.

1. I wonder how many enemies Dell made with that lol
2. AI chatbots work as customer side if implemented well (if chatbot does not have options, it won't work well) and if customers don't knee-jerk into repeating they want human without checking it's options first (which, understandably, came from dealing with badly implemented chatbots). Their search is quite alright for polling public opinions (useful for example if you are lazy and wanna find overall popular film from some genre - it can summarise reddit, google, few review sites and spit the effects at you).

I know, I know. We are anti-AI here. But please, don't be simply cynic. This tech has it's uses, but is so badly used across everything that it's hard not to be negative of it.

These also have an entire computer running Tizen behind the screen in the door, which generates waste heat and dumps it... into your refrigerator. Genius!

I feel like the problem here is that you get people who are curious or like the other features the fridge has and just get what they can when theirs goes out. And while, sure, those people learn not to do that again, by that point the industry used that sales data as a "they must like it, lets do it across the board!" Instead of asking people or taking anything else into account when figuring out what products to continue making.

In 10 yrs when those fridges die and people who "learned their lesson" go to buy a new fridge, there will be zero fridges without AI because marketing thought thats why they bought it and no one has any ability to buy a non-AI fridge anymore.

It might not be sexy, but I'd argue it doesn't need AI to be.

Take the SMEG ones as an example - they're not my cup of tea, but the amount of people who are willing to pay a premium for a fridge that doesn't do anything special other than looking nice shows clearly that.

There's an effort combination here - to buy things that just work, you need not only demand, but their sufficient production and companies choosing that niche to concentrate, because they don't have an option of something with "AI".

It's like negotiation, of what to produce. There's elasticity of demand based on niche similar to that of demand by price. If you need a fridge and there are only AI fridges offered, you'll buy an AI fridge.

So you won't be able to buy something that just works when all companies with sufficient power to design and produce fridges want AI.

There's also some stickiness there, like a hysteresis, and the current combined effort at AI promotion, even if not at equilibrium of said AI's attractiveness for said elasticity, will hold. Unless there will be another combined effort at killing it with fire.

That is similar to 4:3 display ratio, ergonomic user interfaces, or perhaps home appliances that came with schematics, but not anymore.

You know that is a lie, a lip service for the gullible mass. Samsung just does not care about security and privacy because it does not boost their profits.

Yup, I think an ice dispenser and a fancy-schmancy high speed water tap is justifiable for most people, but I can't think of a realistic use case for a screen that outweighs the many negatives.

Judging from the way AMD got up and spent all their time talking about their data centre products, nobody does.

Nothing now. The branding has completely pivoted, CES isn't even an acronym anymore.

cunts

Don't worry, in the realm of major appliances the majority of what these bozos are calling "AI" actually isn't. They're just using it as a buzzword because they think it's popular.

LG, selling a washing machine two years ago: "It has weight sensors to determine the load size."

LG, selling the same damn washing machine today: "With exclusive LG® AI DD™ Technology!!!"

(I am not making this up.)

I have a rule: if the company has ever made a mobile phone or TV I will never buy their appliance.

Not a hotdog

there has! AI customer bot said they'd be a different price and they forced the flight company to uphold said price.

there was a case where a consumer was promised something by an AI chatbot and the company tried to renege on it

sorry I don't really remember any details about it, although I am pretty sure that it was ruled the company had to uphold the chatbot response. Oh I think part of their defense was that the chatbot was an external company or something

edit: found it, looks like the same story the other user referenced

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatbot-misinformation-what-travellers-should-know

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aircanada-chatbot-discount-customer/

"It automatically does a facial scan of any household visitors using Palantir's database and knocks the way they would have."

"Couldn't they just, you know, knock?"

"Sure, but then how would we track who's visiting you while making you pay the power bill for our surveillance devices?"

Didn't find anything, and it would probably void the warranty. But on the upside, using the app isn't necessary to operate the bike, and the most important features work with the controller/display on the handlebar. The motor lock is disabled for now and I'm resorting to more traditional methods of bike security... a chain lock. The motor lock has a huge disadvantage anyways because it depends on a bluetooth connection to the app on a phone. If that phone for some reason doesn't work or is unavailable then the bike is essentially bricked. It's a heavy and bulky cargo bike, so being stranded somewhere with a blocked motor would be bad.

What?

Yeah, so there are these kids toys at CES now that are always watching and always listening. Gyroscope if the toy is being picked up and moved, GPS to track where in the house it is, or where it's going outside.

It's loaded with voice and facial recognition that can track moods and environmental context. But obviously it doesn't work offline. It has no on board AI, so all the data is sent to a service somewhere which will generate responses for the toy.

I wish it was just one such product being promoted at CES, but I've seen several videos now of multiple upstart toy tech brands selling similar AI plushies and such.

AI eXtreme!

We're going back to the late nineties.

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