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Why AI hasn’t made the smart home smarter

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[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have a gripe with this article and it's the way that their "expert" Riedl talks about AI and the anthropomorphic personification inherent in the language he uses.

AI doesn't think. It can't overthink. It doesn't "misunderstand". It doesn't understand. It doesn't do context. So while I understand that this person is trying to communicate the differences between these two types of technology, this gives an unreasonable overestimation of the techs capabilities, making some people believe the tech is more than it is.

Some people on another thread about the same article were upset that this writer bought a coffee machine with AI integration. But that's to be expected of people who write about tech. They try that tech out. Experience it so they can write about it. See what it does. What it's good at. What it's bad at. This is how we get reviews.

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 6 points 14 hours ago

Yep, "AI" is a very fancy database query masquerading as science fiction.