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