The washing machine with integrated AI broke my brain. This must be the most useless thing I’ve ever encountered in my entire life.
And it’s a Samsung appliance so rest assured it’s complete garbage
Not just ai it could also make phone calls
We believe that the washing machine is the hearth of the modern laundry room
You really do have to be a brainless twit to work in marketing.
As a marketing data analyst, I can confirm.
Gives it a fallback to send surveillance data to samsung, even if you don’t connect it to a network
But i can’t hear shit when my washing machine is on! Let alone have a fucking phone call! Who comes up with this shit…
My ten year old basic units are still looking new. Nothing to really go wrong with them and I bet I can get parts for cheap. I know when they’re done because I just wait a little while after I start them, then I know they’re finished.
I still use the exact same washing machine that was in the house when I bought the house. I have no idea how old it is, but I bought the house in 2017 and I can’t imagine the owner would have left it behind if it was new.
The only problem with it is that the door sensor is broken, so It will actually turn on even if the door is open which it shouldn’t do according to the operating manual. Won’t make that mistake again though so it’s not a big problem.
Meanwhile, the new one in my flat has a soft-button to start/stop, which sometimes bugs out and/or locks my laundry away in some edge cases the devs didn’t think of.
My parents have an induction stove like that. If it gets any moisture on the panels at all it thinks the buttons are being pressed and just starts doing random stuff. Because who thought that water would ever get on a stove top?
At least VLC had a neat table there
They better have had traffic cones on their heads. The mental image that creates is quite funny with the contrast to the serious businesmen trying to sell AI one booth over.
Robert’s interview with the AI home assistant robot guy this year was unintentionally amazing, the dude was dressed like Jordan Peterson (ie. an insane person) but had all the interviewing skills of a parboiled potato. And he had no clue that Robert was clowning on him so hard.
Any chance you could link to this or help me find more stuff from Robert? I am always interested in his takes.
I mostly know of him from Behind the Bastards, a podcast about prominent historical figures (usually 1800s through present). The twist, apart from their regular Christmas “Non-Bastard” episodes is of course that these influential people actually behaved questionably at best during their time. I really think Robert’s research and storytelling are great, he and the guests he brings on really can make an hour fly by sometimes. Most of the biographies are split up into a couple parts, with people like Kissinger and Vince McMahon having such dubious pasts to earn them 6 parts each.
Anyway, the interview with the AI home assistant dude was from another podcast which he frequents, called It Could Happen Here, a more news-oriented podcast. Both of the podcasts can be found on YouTube, published by Cool Zone Media. I believe they did 3 episodes of CES coverage for this year, the final part contained the interview. After all the dunking Robert talks about another interview he had at CES which was a lot more uplifting.
