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.
Hard pass. I didn’t need a Wi-Fi toaster, I don’t need this either.
This is so fucking stupid it’s almost painful.
“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t wash that. This wardrobe is too important for you to jeopardize it.”
According to the first law I cannot allow you to wash that shirt, nor am I allowed, through inaction, to let you wash it elsewhere.
“I’m sorry I can’t answer that sweater question. GE AI devices cannot provide answers that might assume any liability for outcomes. But ask us anything.”
“When am I going to run out of milk?”
Just fucking open the fridge and check! Refrigerators and microwaves and shit don’t need AI or connected anything.
The only use case I’ve ever seen for having a connected appliance is to be able to preheat the oven while you’re out and about to get home.
In the 1980s, 8-bit home computers were sold with slogans like “Kids can use these to play games! And use educational software! And the ladies can use them to keep track of the freezer contents!”
…One of three ain’t bad.
Decades later, we still open the fucking fridge to check what’s in the fridge. Such is the nature of technological progress.
(Random old person memory: when I was a kid I actually had some “home economy” software for Spectravideo SV-318, found in some random pile of tapes. I only used it once because it was boring, obviously. My father used the recipe book and added “Poop Cake”. That was enough recipes thank you very much.)
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.
I don’t want my appliances to be engaging. I want to use them for their intended purpose, and then walk away from them.
No thanks. You want me to have a fucking conversation with my washing machine? How is that saving time for me? STFU and run my laundry on cold with low spin like I do every damn time.
Also, what happens next with the fridge? “You’ve had too much cheese today. Initiating cheese drawer lock.” Fuck naw.
Fuck no it isn’t.
Jokes on you, I can’t afford them
Hell yeah, I want my appliances to misinterpret my commands and hallucinate functions they aren’t capable of.
Not to mine it isn’t.
I refuse to own an appliance with any kind of networking.
Fuck that
No it isn’t… not on my watch.
Nah.
I’m imagining it authoritatively telling me it’s safe to wash even though it has no idea.
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.
