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1 | 0'I've Seen the Future of Consumer AI, and it Doesn't Have One' (theregister.co.uk) null/SLASHDOT/0102639856 70\r |
2 | i Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (msmash)\r | |
3 | i from the there-is-no-spoon dept.\r | |
4 | i\r | |
5 | i Andrew Orlowski of The Register recounts all the gadgets\r | |
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6 | i [1]supercharged with AI that he came across at IFA tradeshow\r |
7 | i last week -- and wonders what value AI brought to the table .\r | |
8 | i He writes:\r | |
9 | i \r | |
10 | i > I didn't see a blockchain toothbrush at IFA in Berlin last\r | |
11 | i week, but I'm sure there was one lurking about somewhere. With\r | |
12 | i 30 vast halls to cover, I didn't look too hard for it. But I\r | |
13 | i did see many things almost as tragic that no one could miss --\r | |
14 | i AI being squeezed into almost every conceivable bit of\r | |
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15 | i consumer electronics. But none were convincing. If ever there\r |
16 | i was a solution looking for a problem, it's ramming AI into\r | |
17 | i gadgets to show of a company's machine learning prowess. For\r | |
18 | i the consumer it adds unreliability, cost and complexity, and\r | |
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19 | i the annoyance of being prompted.\r |
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21 | i >\r | |
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23 | i > [...] Back to LG, which takes 2018's prize for sticking AI\r | |
24 | i into a superfluous gadget. The centrepiece of its AI efforts\r | |
25 | i this year is a robot, ClOi. Put Google Assistant or Alexa on\r | |
26 | i wheels, and you have ClOi. I asked the booth person what\r | |
27 | i exactly ClOi could do to be told "it can take notes for your\r | |
28 | i shopping list." Why wasn't this miracle of the Fourth\r | |
29 | i Industrial Revolution let loose on the LG floor? I wondered --\r | |
30 | i a question answered by this account of ClOi's debut at CES in\r | |
31 | i January. Clearly things haven't improved much -- this robot\r | |
32 | i buddy was kept indoors.\r | |
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36 | i [1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/05/consumer_ai_ifa_2-\r | |
37 | i 018_roundup/\r | |
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