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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 | |
| 6 | i supercharged with AI that he came across at IFA tradeshow last\r | |
| 7 | i week -- and wonders what value AI brought to the table. He\r | |
| 8 | i writes: I didn't see a blockchain toothbrush at IFA in Berlin\r | |
| 9 | i last week, but I'm sure there was one lurking about somewhere.\r | |
| 10 | i With 30 vast halls to cover, I didn't look too hard for it.\r | |
| 11 | i But I did see many things almost as tragic that no one could\r | |
| 12 | i miss -- AI being squeezed into almost every conceivable bit of\r | |
| 13 | i consumer electronics. But none were convincing. If ever there\r | |
| 14 | i was a solution looking for a problem, it's ramming AI into\r | |
| 15 | i gadgets to show of a company's machine learning prowess. For\r | |
| 16 | i the consumer it adds unreliability, cost and complexity, and\r | |
| 17 | i the annoyance of being prompted. [...] Back to LG, which takes\r | |
| 18 | i 2018's prize for sticking AI into a superfluous gadget. The\r | |
| 19 | i centrepiece of its AI efforts this year is a robot, ClOi. Put\r | |
| 20 | i Google Assistant or Alexa on wheels, and you have ClOi. I\r | |
| 21 | i asked the booth person what exactly ClOi could do to be told\r | |
| 22 | i "it can take notes for your shopping list." Why wasn't this\r | |
| 23 | i miracle of the Fourth Industrial Revolution let loose on the\r | |
| 24 | i LG floor? I wondered -- a question answered by this account of\r | |
| 25 | i ClOi's debut at CES in January. Clearly things haven't\r | |
| 26 | i improved much -- this robot buddy was kept indoors.\r | |
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