The problem with AI isn’t that it’s not been clearly explained. The problem is, it sucks.
An operating system should only be infrastructure to keep programs running. If I want an AI program, I’ll seek it out and get it myself.
To me it entirely hinges on what kind of features. The Firefox local website translation feature is cool and useful. A chatbot reading my emails and giving me dialogue options, a program harvesting data on everything I do on my computer and sending it to a server, those kinds of things I do not want and will go out of my way to avoid. Normal rules of what makes software good or bad still apply.
I get mad that my microwave wants the date when a power outage causes me to have to set the time. it does not need to be date aware. every power outage its november 11th 2011 all over again.
I wish they didn’t even have clocks. The darn thing resets every time there’s a big gust of wind.
I have a stupidly cheap microwave which I bought a few years ago (because I moved homes and the last one, a rental, included a microwave) and it has no clock.
In fact, it doesn’t even have the simplest of displays - the entire user interface is one analog rotary control for power and another for microwaving time - the latter rotating back by itself at a fixed speed - plus a bell that dings when the second control reaches the zero position.
If I want to know how long till a microwaving operation is finished I just look at the position of the second rotary control.
Sometimes simpler is better.
I mean its vaguely useful to have another clock but yeah if it did not I would not exactly cry.
I think this is an important feature for religiously observant Jews. There’s a loophole where you’re not allowed to use appliances or something, but if the appliance just happens to operate itself on a prearranged schedule then apparently that’s okay. In the manual it may be called Shabbat or Sabbath mode. Without a battery backup it adds next to no per-unit hardware cost if the device already has a cooking timer or automatic safety shutoff feature so it’s probably standard on most ovens and microwaves in markets that have Jewish customers. You may also notice this behavior with elevators that automatically travel on a schedule.
I would be scared as fuck if a microwave started on its own. I mean so they are ready to put some slice of pizza they had the other day in at a specific time because they set it up to start the day before??? Also how many additional sales would they actually see with that feature. Im sorta aware of these things and I thought they were a bit premium and used even dumber setups. Like one was the thing is constantly trying to start itself and there is a thing that blocks it so you are not starting it but taking away the thing that keeps it from working automatically and then reblocking it.
The clock is only useful if the time is correct. They could at least put a small super capacitor in there to keep the time during short power outages.
Or like, a CR2032.
Yeah, even cheap microcontrollers nowadays with support for clock functionality have an ultra low power mode were the only thing running is the clock crystal and the clock functionality which uses so little power that it can run for years from such a button battery.
The thing could do the same as my stupidly cheap alarm clock that has some batteries as power backup and just keep on counting time without displaying whilst mains power is down so that when mains power comes back up it still has the right time.
The extra $1 for the hardware needed for it is hardly going to matter next to the overal cost of anything but a stupidly cheap microwave.
honestly just having it remember the last time it last had would be big. my toaster oven does that so no time adjustment if it was a little brownout.
Eh that’d be horrible. 30 min power outage and your clock is off enough to really throw you off.
My mom visited me once and asked me why I didn’t set the time on the stove, since, you know, it’s a clock. “Mom, I have never once gone ‘oh man what time is it? I better check the stove.’ Especially after I had a smartphone on me all the time”
I’m in your boat. I don’t even change my clocks for DST anymore. It doesn’t really matter beyond a ballpark what time it is most of the time (and keeping to standard time means my animals’ schedules don’t get messed up every 6 months). If there’s an appointment or something that I need an actual time for, I have my phone with tons of alarm options so it’s fine.
I haven’t set my stove clock in ages, tho I get why it has one since I can program it to start at a certain time, but beyond that appliances shouldn’t even have always-on displays. What’s the purpose other than wasting electricity?
I mean I do use clocks around the house and don’t have a smartphone on me all the time but still the clocks on appliances can be off for awhile before I bother to set them again.
That’s just your microwave reminding you when its birthday is. Did you even get it a card this year?
That functionality requires a high tier subscription, and even then you have to watch 4 of the same advertisement before it says “Happy Birthday!”
Not only is it completely useless for all but the simplest of summary tasks, but I also don’t need it so much that some “colossal” skuM needs to build their own EPA-violating methane burning power plants to provide that uselessness to my home computer. Diminishing returns doesn’t begin to spell out how little use this is to the user.
Only one third?
One third don’t want it and don’t need it. Another third probably need it, but still don’t want it. And the rest are just sheep.
I use it for work a lot. But On my personal devices? Nah I don’t need it . And I especially don’t want my data crawled forcibly
According to “The Evolving Ecosystem”, a recent Connected Intelligence® report from Circana, LLC, 86% of U.S. consumers 18+ are aware of AI in smartphones and other technology devices
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Of consumers who are aware of AI, 65% are interested in AI features coming to at least one of the device types studied — most commonly the smartphone. This figure rises to 82% of consumers between ages 18 and 24 and steadily declines among older groups.
So, an alternative headline that would be just as truthful: “A majority of US consumers are interested in AI features coming to their devices.”
That’s not going to get the upvotes here, though.
Yeah, there is that. There is also the fact that even going to the source I cannot find the actual study/data. No idea the sample size, method, or even list if questions. Mostly this feels like clickbait from PC Gamer.
I like my Mac. It has AI, like every other computer out there, but it’s like the Forrest Gump of AI. Except it can’t even tell you that life is like a box of chocolates… but with Apple Intelligence, you never know what you’re gonna get. We just accept that it’s useless. And I hope they do tell us our phones and computers aren’t good enough for the next version. I’m totally okay with that. I’ll stick with what I have.
