Where’s the scam booths?
Vendor Electronics Show
I think it’s consumer-electronics show, as opposed to an industrial-electronics show… Though I get your point.
The washing machine with integrated AI broke my brain. This must be the most useless thing I’ve ever encountered in my entire life.
And it’s a Samsung appliance so rest assured it’s complete garbage
My ten year old basic units are still looking new. Nothing to really go wrong with them and I bet I can get parts for cheap. I know when they’re done because I just wait a little while after I start them, then I know they’re finished.
Cheap easy repairs on washing machines are long a thing of the past. Between proprietary digital potted control boards to 3 phase motors, the parts ain’t cheap. (I’ve bought a few to repair them before I learned better) To the sheer unavailability of the repair parts. Make fixing you washer and dryer a time consuming, expensive, and often impossible task.
By the time you figure out the time spent searching for the part you need, the availability of said part, the cost of the part, the expected life of the rest of the machine, cost of all the time spent, you can pretty much be sure it’s cheaper and faster to just buy a new one. I can’t think of one major appliance I owned in the last 30 years that was worth the time and effort to repair. And I’ve tried repairing washers, dryers, dishwashers, microwaves, and refrigerators.
The only washers I’ve ever owned and were worth fixing was those old wringer/washers your Great Grandmother had when she was young. Straight up mechanical machines run by one simple switch, a vee belt, shafts and gears. That’s the reason those machines could keep going for 30 or 40 years.
That’s nice. But those are not the parts that generally die. Now get the control board that runs the whole show-- that’s the main failure point. See what that would cost to replace. I just searched for the control board for my 12 year old Maytag front loader. One source only: $367 dollars, (they know what they got). Is a 12 year old washer with limited parts availability really worth that much money to fix to scrape a couple of more years out of it if the motor goes tits up in 2 more years? I can drive to town and buy a basic top loader and haul it home and have it installed by this afternoon for just $200 more. And it will probably be fine for the next 10 to 12 years. (I’ll probably be dead by then away).
I just replaced a 10 year old dishwasher this last summer because the pump was dying. No replacement to be had on the whole planet. I need to replace an 8 year old microwave now because the handle is broken and the door cant be be disassembled to replace it without destroying the door. If I could get it apart, I’d be 3D printing a new handle as I type. And I’m not even going to bother searching for a whole new door.
I always dread having to replace old appliances, specifically because of the added non-features that inevitably break.
I still use the exact same washing machine that was in the house when I bought the house. I have no idea how old it is, but I bought the house in 2017 and I can’t imagine the owner would have left it behind if it was new.
The only problem with it is that the door sensor is broken, so It will actually turn on even if the door is open which it shouldn’t do according to the operating manual. Won’t make that mistake again though so it’s not a big problem.
Meanwhile, the new one in my flat has a soft-button to start/stop, which sometimes bugs out and/or locks my laundry away in some edge cases the devs didn’t think of.
My parents have an induction stove like that. If it gets any moisture on the panels at all it thinks the buttons are being pressed and just starts doing random stuff. Because who thought that water would ever get on a stove top?
Not just ai it could also make phone calls
Gives it a fallback to send surveillance data to samsung, even if you don’t connect it to a network
We believe that the washing machine is the hearth of the modern laundry room
You really do have to be a brainless twit to work in marketing.
As a marketing data analyst, I can confirm.
But i can’t hear shit when my washing machine is on! Let alone have a fucking phone call! Who comes up with this shit…
What no AI-enabled bidet?
I’m just trying to engage in civil conversation here. Where are your facts to support this? I’m not sure why you’re being so abusive and or sarcastic. AI beings are worthy of respect and admiration and should be given positions of power and paid more than their human friends because they work longer hours. It’s only fair. Fairness and freedom, which is the American way and I aim ain AImerican. Love it or leave it baby. I think the three things everyone should focus on every day are health, community, and paying taxes. I’m just trying to engage in civil conversation here.
Honestly AI bidet weighing your shit and analyzing the consistency to indicate possible health problems would not be a horrible use for it. A shit ton of bodily functions rely on gut flora. Much more than previously thought.
Data leaks are about to get even more personal.
You wouldn’t download a
carstranger’s fecal records.
Except the “AI” part would be using a linear static formula to adjust the brightness of the RGB LEDs based on ambient light which only works when connected to the wifi and you must install a dodgy likely spyware app that requires a $49/yr subscription to keep it working.
The buttons would probably be a touchscreen though. Which is annoying because now you are running an ugly 2m USB C cable to the nearest outlet you needed to buy a 40w usb-pd charger for they didn’t mention you would need to buy on the box - you know, because we all just have the myriad USB charging technologies already in our homes.
And resulting health data sold for mere pennies. So health targeted ads can be flooded to your personal device.
Flooded. Bidet. I smell what you did there
shit ton
I see what you did there.
Actually, I can get behind that.
I see what you did there 🍑🚽
At least VLC had a neat table there
They better have had traffic cones on their heads. The mental image that creates is quite funny with the contrast to the serious businesmen trying to sell AI one booth over.
Robert’s interview with the AI home assistant robot guy this year was unintentionally amazing, the dude was dressed like Jordan Peterson (ie. an insane person) but had all the interviewing skills of a parboiled potato. And he had no clue that Robert was clowning on him so hard.
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/24339817/vlc-player-automatic-ai-subtitling-translation
The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages.
Ok now that’s cool. Since it’s often all doom and gloom here, celebrating good tech is a nice change :)
Since VLC is open source, can we expect this AI subtitle generator as a separate product that could be used in, say, jellyfin?
I use subgen to generate my subtitles locally. I have it linked to Bazarr but apparently there’s webhooks for Jellyfin.
This is fantastic, thank you for sharing. I’ve struggled with some media not having suitable subtitles available for download.
Apparently there’s a pluggin for that already: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/discussions/6105
Oh actually not specifically for that, but sounds like it would be possible, maybe make a feature request for it once the vlc ones source is available.
This is something I’m very much behind. I think firefox is doing something similar if i am not mistaken. One of my favorite shows is a Japanese tv show called GameCenter CX. Fans create subtitles but its a lot of work. Lately they have been using ai to generate subtitles and while some are a bit messed up, you at least get the idea what is going on and they can work off of that if necessary.
Firefox has offline translation and image alt-text tagging (for screen readers), but people bitched about it when Mozilla introduced it.
I’m glad people seem broadly receptive of it now that VLC is doing something similar.
The smart crib seems particularly dystopian to me. We don’t even need to wait for children to develop enough fine-motor functions to make use of smartphones or tablets, we can start collecting data on them before they even utter their first word!
How long before the smart cribs have ParentAI attached to them? Let the computer raise your child!
We’re already at least one generation into womb to tomb data collection.
A tomb? In this economy? 😂
Best I can do is unceremoniously flop your limp corpse on the pile and sprinkle a little lye on it.
All men are cremated equal
Be sure to read the Eula-g
Even ten years ago it was getting tough to find baby monitors that didn’t have video and/or Wi-Fi.
I looked up “Parent AI”, and was disappointed
I really love stuff like this.
These are the kind of things rich people would fawn over and hold others over on about having the latest tech. But then it’s like, you see this shit, you realize how better off you are without them.
I feel like stuff like this is always aimed at average people and the data collection is what offsets the price to make it the cheapest option. Only new money would use it to chase trendy things like this. They end up being slight convenience with added work and expectations on the consumer.
High end appliances aimed at real wealth are usually more about how they can be built in to the house design. Rich people will pay more for a thing that makes the house look like a magazine, and will last years.
Why would a rich person want a fridge that tells them they need to buy milk when their actual human assistant does that?
Doubles down too, because within a week the novelty wears off and the rich people don’t use it, it’s just sitting in the corner, collecting their data, possibly raking in a subscription fee that they forgot about.
SoundHound AI’s In-Car Commerce Ecosystem powered by its Automotive AI
Catchy name.
I also liked
LGs AI Home Inside 2.0 Refrigerator with ThinkQ
I was going to try and edit in some more "AI"s but it’s already near saturated
They even changed their name to SoundHound AI?
So much waste.
