Companies are going all-in on artificial intelligence right now, investing millions or even billions into the area while slapping the AI initialism on their products, even when doing so seems strange and pointless.

Heavy investment and increasingly powerful hardware tend to mean more expensive products. To discover if people would be willing to pay extra for hardware with AI capabilities, the question was asked on the TechPowerUp forums.

The results show that over 22,000 people, a massive 84% of the overall vote, said no, they would not pay more. More than 2,200 participants said they didn’t know, while just under 2,000 voters said yes.

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    someone tried to sell me a fucking AI fridge the other day. Why the fuck would I want my fridge to “learn my habits?” I don’t even like my phone “learning my habits!”

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      5 months ago

      Why does a fridge need to know your habits?

      It has to keep the food cold all the time. The light has to come on when you open the door.

      What could it possibly be learning

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        Hi Zron, you seem to really enjoy eating shredded cheese at 2:00am! For your convenience, we’ve placed an order for 50lbs of shredded cheese based on your rate of consumption. Thanks!

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          5 months ago

          We also took the liberty of canceling your health insurance to help protect the shareholders from your abhorrent health expenses in the far future

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            If your fridge spies after you, certain people can have better insights into healthiness of your food habits, how organized you are, how often things go bad and are thrown out, what medicine (requiring to be kept cold) do you put there and how often do you use it.

            That will then affect your insurances, your credit rating, and possibly many other ratings other people are interested in.

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        1. Know when you’re about to put groceries in so it makes the fridge colder so the added heat doesn’t make things go bad.
        2. Know when you don’t use it and let it get a tiny bit warmer to save a teeny bit of power. (The vast majority of power is cooling new items, not keeping things cold though.)
        3. Tell you where things are?
        4. Ummm… Maybe give you an optimized layout of how to store things?
        5. Be an attack vector on your home’s wifi
        6. Wait, no, uh,
        7. Push notifications
        8. Do you not have phones?
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        So I can see what you like to eat, then it can tell your grocery store, then your grocery store can raise the prices on those items. That’s the point. It’s the same thing with those memberships and coupon apps. That’s the end goal.

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          They can see what you like to eat by what you’re buying, LOL. No, not this.

          A fridge can give them information on how do you eat.

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      And it would improve your life zero. That is what is absurd about LLM’s in their current iteration, they provide almost no benefit to a vast majority of people.

      All a learning model would do for a fridge is send you advertisements for whatever garbage food is on sale. Could it make recipes based on what you have? Tell it you want to slowly get healthier and have it assist with grocery selection?

      Nah, fuck you and buy stuff.

    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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      I’m still pissed about the fact that I can’t buy a reasonably priced TV that doesn’t have WiFi. I should never have left my old LG Plasma bolted to the wall of my previous house when I sold it. That thing had a fantastic picture and doubled as a space heater in the winter.

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        5 months ago

        Projector gang checking in 🤓📽️

        Everything alright here?

        You can always join us in the peaceful realm of select input.

        (there are still WiFi-free options)

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      I want AI in my fridge for sure. Grocery shopping sucks. Forgetting how old something was sucks. Letting all the cool out to crawl around to see what I have sucks.

      I want my fridge to be like the Sims, just get deliveries or pickup the order. Fill it out and get told what ingredients I have. Bonus points if you can just tell me what recipes I can cook right now, even better if I can ask for time frame.

      That would be sick!

      Still not going to give ecorp all of my data or put some half back internet of stings device on my WiFi for it. But it would be cool.