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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 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I want AI in my fridge for sure. Grocery shopping sucks. Forgetting how old something was sucks. Letting all the cool out to crawl around to see what I have sucks.

I want my fridge to be like the Sims, just get deliveries or pickup the order. Fill it out and get told what ingredients I have. Bonus points if you can just tell me what recipes I can cook right now, even better if I can ask for time frame.

That would be sick!

Still not going to give ecorp all of my data or put some half back internet of stings device on my WiFi for it. But it would be cool.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ye, that'd be sick! and that's also not what was being sold! this fridge did none of that. What exactly made it "AI" I didn't bother to find out, but I work in IT. I guarantee it wasn't this. Also, not convinced I want my fridge to be able to spend my money for me. I want to be able to have a Ramen month if I need/want

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Automatic spending definitely takes next level of trust for sure!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely this. There IS a scenario in which I would love a "smart" or "AI" fridge, but it's gotta be damn impressive to even be worth my time.

It needs to know everything in my fridge, how long it's been there and it's expiration date, and I want it to build grocery lists for me based on what is low, and let me know ahead of time that I should use something up that's going bad soon. Bonus points if it recommends some options for how to do that based on my tastes. And I want to do this without having to manually input or remove everything.

But we're still SO far from being able to do this reliably, let alone at any kind of acceptable price point, and yet fridge makers keep shoving out dumb fridges with a screen on them and calling them "smart". I hate it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

For sure playing ads on my fridge or just spying on me aren't "smart" at all to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Would you be willing to destroy the whole planet in order make millions of these fridges?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

A couple planets! /s

I would be willing to never have one in my life time just to see climate change slowed to a rate nature can naturally adapt and people can afford to adjust to honestly.

I dont forsee it being any worse then food waste and wasted grocery trips are for me.

Computer vision, a couple services, a db, and network access can be pretty light weight. Any extra voice, natural language interface, etc is probably overkill and without special hardware (and the ecogical cost of that) not worth it on an energy use stand point.

All speculation of course