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'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells (apnews.com)
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Artificial intelligence took center stage at this year's CES gadget show, but not always for the right reasons.

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[–] 43 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Deskbound AI ‘soulmate’ companion is always watching your eyes

It's not a surveillance device. It's your soulmate!

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    • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Anyone dumb enough to buy a Samsung fridge with integrated ads but no fucking handles to open it deserves what they get.

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    • [+] 17 points 10 months ago (15 children)
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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    Because money. As long as you have those two magic letters in your pitch deck, investors will just pour absurd amounts of money into your project.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    I don't understand how these investors think this shit is worth anything when consumers clearly don't want it.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    But AI is the future! If you don't have AI in your product, you're behind competition!

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Investors clearly live in a different world.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    100% can confirm.. my tiny employer is sinking tons of man hours into AI.

    Does it solve business any need? Nope. But AI!

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    • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    What even would an AI doorbell even do?

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    Identify possible migrants and notify ICE. Detect illegal activities in your home and call the police on you. Scan the faces of every person that walks by your house to compile into commercial tracking products sold to government agencies and corporations.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago*

    Tell ICE that it's totally cool if they come in, using your voice.

    And this is OK because it was buried in a 300-word paragraph in size 2 font on page 37 of the TOS that you agreed to, added in a vaguely-worded email 2 days after you signed into the app

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