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I had to buy a new washing machine last year. It has an AI mode, what ever that is. I have never used the mode.
by tmaly 4mo ago
I had to buy a new washing machine last year. It has an AI mode, what ever that is. I have never used the mode.
- syberspace 4mo agoas far as I've understood the AI mode on my new-ish washing machine: it's just a renamed "automatic" mode that uses a sensor to measure how heavy the load is and adjusts the cycle length. there is absolutely no AI involved, just an if-statement or equivalent logic gates. I'd guess yours does something similar
- jagged-chisel 4mo agoLiterally, “simulated intelligence” at best. But for marketing, “artificial intelligence” is fine. And better than LLMs being called “AI”
- ajam1507 4mo agoSurprising that there are still people who don't think LLMs qualify as AI
- Octoth0rpe 4mo agoI think in some people's minds, the concept of sentience and intelligence are intertwined, and there are at least some people (myself included) who do not think they're the same. There is a strong (but surprisingly not universal) consensus that LLMs are not sentient, so if you insist that sentience/intelligence are the same thing, then LLMs don't qualify as AI either. If you think the two concepts are separable, then they're intelligent but not sentient. The devil is of course in the definitions.
- Animats 4mo agoWashers now do have useful control systems. Mine starts out by spinning the tub a little, before adding water, to measure the load. Out of balance problems are a thing of the past - that's sensed and dealt with automatically. It's able to handle bed comforters or sneakers without problems. But it's not "AI", and it doesn't have a network connection.
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- andai 4mo agoOn my walk today I passed an LG company van. It had an ad for one of their new AC units on the side. "AI Air"
- throw-the-towel 4mo agoA bar I know had an "AI designed shot" back in 2023.
- forinti 4mo agoThere's a billboard near my home with an ad for "AI designed glasses".
- squid_ca 4mo agoMine too. I think it's just a buzzword, like, this would have been called "Smart Wash" five years ago.