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Survey shows most people wouldn't pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware | 84% of people said no (www.techspot.com)
submitted 5 months ago by ForgottenFlux to c/technology
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Companies are going all-in on artificial intelligence right now, investing millions or even billions into the area while slapping the AI initialism on their products, even when doing so seems strange and pointless.

Heavy investment and increasingly powerful hardware tend to mean more expensive products. To discover if people would be willing to pay extra for hardware with AI capabilities, the question was asked on the TechPowerUp forums.

The results show that over 22,000 people, a massive 84% of the overall vote, said no, they would not pay more. More than 2,200 participants said they didn't know, while just under 2,000 voters said yes.

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[–] Zron 49 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Why does a fridge need to know your habits?

It has to keep the food cold all the time. The light has to come on when you open the door.

What could it possibly be learning

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla 47 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Hi Zron, you seem to really enjoy eating shredded cheese at 2:00am! For your convenience, we’ve placed an order for 50lbs of shredded cheese based on your rate of consumption. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We also took the liberty of canceling your health insurance to help protect the shareholders from your abhorrent health expenses in the far future

[–] rottingleaf 9 points 5 months ago

If your fridge spies after you, certain people can have better insights into healthiness of your food habits, how organized you are, how often things go bad and are thrown out, what medicine (requiring to be kept cold) do you put there and how often do you use it.

That will then affect your insurances, your credit rating, and possibly many other ratings other people are interested in.

[–] SmackemWittadic 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wish products followed your lead and had no AI features, 1995 Toyota Corolla :/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think you're being sarcastic, but I unironically agree. Cars and fridges can, and should stay dumb, with the notable exception of battery management systems in electric vehicles. That's the single acceptable use case for a car IMHO.

[–] SmackemWittadic 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh I absolutely agree, some things don't need to be "smart".

Imagine if someone put a microchip in a potato peeler claiming that it would add features like "sensing the amount of pressure applied to the potato to ensure clean peels". The reason they haven't done that is that data would only benefit the user, and they can't think of a way to have it benefit the company's profit margins.

[–] captainlezbian 3 points 5 months ago

I think car play is a wonderful feature. My car should absolutely allow syncing up to my phone. I don’t think it should telemetry or anything like that though. But I think internal process monitoring should also be a thing. Display error codes, show me that a tire is low, monitor a battery, etc. but the manufacturer shouldn’t get that info. My car shouldn’t know my sex life, and the manufacturer definitely shouldn’t

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago
  1. Know when you're about to put groceries in so it makes the fridge colder so the added heat doesn't make things go bad.
  2. Know when you don't use it and let it get a tiny bit warmer to save a teeny bit of power. (The vast majority of power is cooling new items, not keeping things cold though.)
  3. Tell you where things are?
  4. Ummm... Maybe give you an optimized layout of how to store things?
  5. Be an attack vector on your home's wifi
  6. Wait, no, uh,
  7. Push notifications
  8. Do you not have phones?
[–] njm1314 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So I can see what you like to eat, then it can tell your grocery store, then your grocery store can raise the prices on those items. That's the point. It's the same thing with those memberships and coupon apps. That's the end goal.

[–] rottingleaf 1 points 5 months ago

They can see what you like to eat by what you're buying, LOL. No, not this.

A fridge can give them information on how do you eat.