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