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.
“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 don’t want my appliances to be engaging. I want to use them for their intended purpose, and then walk away from them.
Nah.
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 had, and why weren’t they laughed out of the room, presented with a box of their personal effects, and escorted off the premises by security?
asking your washing machine whether it’s safe to wash a beloved item of clothing on a certain setting
Or, you know, just read the damn label on the clothing that tells you exactly how to wash it. If the article of clothing is so beloved, you’d have either read that or ruined it already.
Or you could say to your fridge, “Hey, when am I going to run out of milk?"
OR you could open the goddamn door and fucking look. Jesus christ. It’s not like my fat ass doesn’t need the exercise or know where the fridge is.
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.
I’ll admit, sometimes life can get lonely, but if I start talking to the washing machine, lock me the fuck up in the loony bin.
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.
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.
“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.)
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.
Jokes on you, I can’t afford them
As if LLMs are in anyway appropriate for this… We need to stop putting “AI” in everything and thinking that will somehow solve some problem
Dishwashers and toaster ovens are going to become subscription items
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.
I’m imagining it authoritatively telling me it’s safe to wash even though it has no idea.
