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.
Does anyone want any toast?
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I’d make an exception for that toaster though.
“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.”
Fuck no it isn’t.
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 has?
asking your washing machine whether it’s safe to wash a beloved item of clothing on a certain setting
Or just read the damn label on the clothing.
Or you could say to your fridge, “Hey, when am I going to run out of milk?"
Or you could open the damn door and look. It’s not like my fat ass doesn’t need the exercise or know where the fridge is.
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.
Why are you….? What are you……? Never mind. I don’t want to know.
They are jerking off to the naked people on their refrigerator and sound quite happy about it, so why don’t you keep your prudish thoughts to yourself?
What? I’m shaking the salad dressing?
This is so fucking stupid it’s almost painful.
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.
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.
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.
“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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Even human generated recipes are often “wrong”, either actually wrong (like no, garlic doesn’t go into a hot pan with onions that need sweating, they’ll burn) or just wrong from a typo - like saying 1 tablespoon of a strong spice instead of 1 teaspoon.
Not to mine it isn’t.
I refuse to own an appliance with any kind of networking.
Fuck that
