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.
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.
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.
“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.
It takes more time and effort to access and wait for the AI than it would to just open the damn fridge. Why make things more complicated than they need to be?
Selling subscriptions
Because data collection
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.)
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.
Smart bulbs and alexa count as Ai now?
And the example given. Slap a proprietary llm on every single device.
Just one good llm accessible on a phone or wearable will do thank you very much. All i need is a pdf manual for the device to upload to it and maybe an api for advanced features.
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 don’t want my appliances to be engaging. I want to use them for their intended purpose, and then walk away from them.
No it isn’t… not on my watch.
A watch being probably one of the few devices where acces to an llm makes sense.
Nah, watches are for timekeeping, everything else may live in my phone so I can easily place it out of reach and ignore it.
Thats fair, i am not a watch wearer i just liked the idea of sci-fi style wrist computer/tech-toolkit
These appliances are really just going to advertise products and discriminate about brands aren’t they.
I honestly would be apoplectic if my washing machine told me to buy whatever soap.
Insert your microchip tide pod into the machine or it won’t start
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.
Not to mine it isn’t.
I refuse to own an appliance with any kind of networking.
Fuck that
Nah.
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.
Fuck no it isn’t.
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.
