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submitted 7 months ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

Artificial intelligence took center stage at this year's CES gadget show, but not always for the right reasons.

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[-] markz@suppo.fi 45 points 7 months ago

Deskbound AI ‘soulmate’ companion is always watching your eyes

It's not a surveillance device. It's your soulmate!

[-] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 20 points 7 months ago

Anyone dumb enough to buy a Samsung fridge with integrated ads but no fucking handles to open it deserves what they get.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

suck it, Jin Yang.

[-] Bazell@lemmy.zip 18 points 7 months ago

AI doorbell... Why? Just why?

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 15 points 7 months ago

Because money. As long as you have those two magic letters in your pitch deck, investors will just pour absurd amounts of money into your project.

[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago

I don't understand how these investors think this shit is worth anything when consumers clearly don't want it.

[-] markz@suppo.fi 4 points 7 months ago

But AI is the future! If you don't have AI in your product, you're behind competition!

[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago

Investors clearly live in a different world.

[-] markz@suppo.fi 5 points 7 months ago

It's all greed and fomo

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

It’s a numbers game. If you invest in 500 AI startups, but one of them becomes the next Saudi Aramco, Microsoft, or Meta, it will easily cover all the losses.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Because they think their product will finally be the one consumers care about, and they don't want someone else to get there first.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Because they have so much money they are ok with a 90% fail rate.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

It’s a risky investment.

[-] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago

100% can confirm.. my tiny employer is sinking tons of man hours into AI.

Does it solve business any need? Nope. But AI!

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

The AI startup gets money, and the new CEO gets to drive a Ferrari. That’s all that counts. Fulfilling the requests or needs of your clients is just an optional side quest.

[-] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

Wait.. do you work for my company too? Lol

[-] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

...because it's what plants crave!

[-] fubarx@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago
[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 7 months ago

Open the front door, Hal!

I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.

[-] elvith@feddit.org 3 points 7 months ago

If You’re an introvert and on the outside: the door bell will realize the struggle to make social contact and ring for you, no actions needed. If you’re the introvert on the inside, it will automatically decline visitors.

/s

[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 3 points 7 months ago

And if you're a cow it'll inseminate you.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

What even would an AI doorbell even do?

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 18 points 7 months ago

Identify possible migrants and notify ICE. Detect illegal activities in your home and call the police on you. Scan the faces of every person that walks by your house to compile into commercial tracking products sold to government agencies and corporations.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago

facial recognition that IDs everyone who enters your house and sells that list on the open data market.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago
[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Tell ICE that it's totally cool if they come in, using your voice.

And this is OK because it was buried in a 300-word paragraph in size 2 font on page 37 of the TOS that you agreed to, added in a vaguely-worded email 2 days after you signed into the app

[-] Rothe@piefed.social 6 points 7 months ago

Give information about you visitors, and your movements, to tech companies.

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Also attracts investors.

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