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