AI needs to stop

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Like others mentioned this one actually makes sense. Letting you know your washing is done so you can move it to the drier and letting you know its dry already so you can fold it is actually super helpful. I studied at an uni that had a connected laundry room so I didnt have to go all the way there to check if the machine was done with my laundry.

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I don't know where else you could find enough work to sustain yourself other than furry porn and hentai before Ai. Post Ai, even that is gone.

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My home is already plenty dumb enough without me exerting that level of control.

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Do you have an example of an AI system being deployed to do these things or is it, as I said, pure hypothetical tech bro logic?

But yeah it basically squirts some water in at the top, then analyzes the water that reaches the bottom (and how much) to infer the fabric types. That same information is then considered when dispensing detergent and fabric softener. Simple sensors and tables

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that's pretty cool then.

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It already sings a song for 30 seconds when the load is done. I understand a notification at a laundromat, but what good is that really in your home?

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I think we're running out of advancements that make life better, now all technology does is make production cheaper.

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Get fukken ratio'd about it lmao

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Not as bad as the IR touch screens. They had a IR field protected just above the surface of the screen that would be broken by your finger, such would register a touch at that location.

Or a fly landing on your screen and walking a few steps could drag a file into the recycle bin.

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Some people have their laundry machines far away, some people wear headphones while waiting, there are many reasons a notification helps

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AI needs to slop! Embrace the slop! And give us money for more slop!

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Yeah it doesn’t seem like a bad washer, just don’t appreciate them jumping on the AI bandwagon. It’s manipulative

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I love it when people angrily declare that something AI researchers figured out in the 60s can't be AI because it involves algorithms.

Using an algorithm to take a set of continuous input variables and map them to a set of continuous output variables in a way that maximizes result quality is an AI algorithm, even if it's using a precomputed lookup table.

AI has been a field since the 1950s. Not every technique for measuring the environment and acting on it needs to be some advanced deep learning model for it to be a product of AI research.

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What is making you interact with any of these things enough that it bothers you this much? Do you personally experience this every day or are you just mad about something someone posted online?

Most, if not all, of your examples can be ignored or disabled, already existed but were rebranded as AI, or are seriously so inconsequential that wasting your time caring about it is just silly.

Don't fall for the ragebait and confirmation bias posts.

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Maybe I am just good at ignoring it. I don't use a whole lot of mainstream websites or, like you, big social media. I think people are just disproportionately annoyed by things they don't have to use.

Chatbots aren't anything new, if anything them being slightly better isn't really a bad thing.

I think windows mentioned ~~cortana~~ copilot being there but I use openshell and outside of the day I installed windows 11, it hasn't even mentioned it. Am I just not being targeted for ads for it? Literally not once has windows shoved it in my face but people complain about it frequently as if copilot was launching a full size ad window every time they turn on their computer.

The thing about it being little value to the end user does seem fair. I actually enjoy amusing myself with image generation but that's about all I use it for. Don't really care about whiny artists, especially since everyone complains that it isn't good enough to be real art but is also somehow good enough to replace good artists (??).

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Yeah, I know how it works, and I also know how different types of AI work.

It's a field from the 50s concerned with making systems that perceive their environment and change how they execute their tasks based on those perceptions to maximize the fulfillment of their task.

Yes, all modern laundry machines utilize AI techniques involving interpolation of sensor readings into a lookup table to pick wash parameters more intelligently.

You've let sci-fi notions of what AI is get you mad at a marketing department for realizing that we're back to being able to label AI stuff correctly.

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AI is one of the most powerful tools available today, and as a heavy user, I’ve seen firsthand how transformative it can be. However, there’s a trend right now where companies are trying to force AI into everything, assuming they know the best way for you to use it. They’re focused on marketing to those who either aren’t using AI at all or are using it ineffectively, promising solutions that often fall short in practice.

Here’s the truth: the real magic of AI doesn’t come from adopting prepackaged solutions. It comes when you take the time to develop your own use cases, tailored to the unique problems you want to solve. AI isn’t a one-size-fits-all tool; its strength lies in its adaptability. When you shift your mindset from waiting for a product to deliver results to creatively using AI to tackle your specific challenges, it stops being just another tool and becomes genuinely life-changing.

So, don’t get caught up in the hype or promises of marketing tags. Start experimenting, learning, and building solutions that work for you. That’s when AI truly reaches its full potential.

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The fact that you’ve been reduced to blabbering about such mundane things in the style of “the ghosts in pac-man technically had AI” tells us everything we need to know here. Have fun arguing with me in the shower about whether or not current trends are just a result of marketing executives finally being liberated to appropriately label the AI they’ve been using for 70 years

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When it comes to the marketing teams in such companies, I wonder what the ratio is between true believers and "this is stupid but if it spikes the numbers next quarter that will benefit me.”

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I like this typography, but I don't like somebody pretending they represent everybody.