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Survey shows most people wouldn't pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware | 84% of people said no (www.techspot.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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!"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago
  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?
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

To remind you when should go to buy groceries haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I still want this fridge. (Source)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

always xkcd