AI powered microwave.
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@futurebird And then the microwave manufacturer starts sending you emails every day.
"We see you enjoyed our AI-enhanced popcorn experience. Why not try our AI-enhanced refrigerated beverage experience?"
"We see you enjoyed AI-enabled refrigerated beverages and popcorn. You might be interested in our AI-boosted digital scale."
And then emails to everyone in contacts, "[A] enjoyed our AI-enhanced popcorn experience. Here's a discount to join [A] next movie night."
Ugh.
They just want to know what you eat and when so they can somehow raise the price on it all. Ghouls.
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They just want to know what you eat and when so they can somehow raise the price on it all. Ghouls.
@futurebird Or get you to buy more of whatever vertical market they're pushing.
"We see you enjoyed popcorn during [streamed movie]. Here are the other movies popular in your area with AI-enhanced popcorn eaters."
"We see you enjoyed five popcorn-worthy movies this month. Perhaps you'd like to upgrade to our AI-enabled automatic popcorn popper microwave, synced to your movie streaming."
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"You're absolutely right, turning on the magnetron with the door open was very dangerous and irresponsible. I have updated my instruction set to say 'never ever turn on the magnetron with the door open no matter what' rather than just 'never turn on the magnetron with the door open'"
@futurebird @troublewithwords well yeah unless you are looking for diy havanna syndrome #firebirds
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@futurebird I’m sorry, your free subscription to the popcorn setting has ended. If you subscribe to Microwave+ you’ll get popcorn and 5 more settings! $19.99 a month or 5 years for just $1,000, a 20% savings! Or click here to learn about Microwave Pro which will let you set the clock and disable the incessant beeping!
@troublewithwords @futurebird have you heard of @pluralistic novella "Unauthorized Bread"? Cause that's basically what happens.
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AI powered microwave. Everyone must be laughing at this. This is such a joke.
People don't even use the damn popcorn button and that ... kind of works.
@futurebird
And it still won't be as good as the sharp carousel multiple choice -
"You're absolutely right, turning on the magnetron with the door open was very dangerous and irresponsible. I have updated my instruction set to say 'never ever turn on the magnetron with the door open no matter what' rather than just 'never turn on the magnetron with the door open'"
Excellent thinking! Let me generate a targeted setting for drying your hamster.
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What is it with the microwave popcorn producers always telling you to "For the love of God, do not use the popcorn button!"
Every package says to not use it. What's up with that?
@pseudonym @futurebird i wish to know this as well. Why have a popcorn button if we're not supposed to use it?
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AI powered microwave. Everyone must be laughing at this. This is such a joke.
People don't even use the damn popcorn button and that ... kind of works.
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AI powered microwave. Everyone must be laughing at this. This is such a joke.
People don't even use the damn popcorn button and that ... kind of works.
So I assume you just put whatever in the microwave and it knows what it is and knows better than you what you want done with it ?
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AI powered microwave. Everyone must be laughing at this. This is such a joke.
People don't even use the damn popcorn button and that ... kind of works.
replacing a demonstrably bad algorithm (popcorn button) with an even more random setting via AI is definitely not progress. i can only imagine what kind of burned mess you might wind up scraping out of your microwave before you try to kill the stench it caused in your kitchen...
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@futurebird honestly I’ve stopped paying attention to these stunts. They’re not designed to be useful products, they’re designed to get the company acquired.
I wish we could just have a techbro science fair instead and cut out the mass production part
@futurebird shit I just realized the techbro science fair already exists, it’s called CES
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AI powered microwave. Everyone must be laughing at this. This is such a joke.
People don't even use the damn popcorn button and that ... kind of works.
@futurebird that button is a con. I found out you have to buy special bags EVERY time you want popcorn! I thought we were living in the future
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I've been meaning to research how that popcorn button works. I mean is it just a fixed time chosen for standard size bags (but they're different sizes)? Or is it listening to the pops (there's a mic in my microwave)? Or is it some extremely clever microwave feedback trick (???)?
@TerryHancock @futurebird there's a technology connections video with the information you seek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Limpr1L8Pss
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You can't have any popcorn until you enter the wifi password and download the new firmware.
This is the definition of HELL.
@futurebird why, god??? why????
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"You're absolutely right, turning on the magnetron with the door open was very dangerous and irresponsible. I have updated my instruction set to say 'never ever turn on the magnetron with the door open no matter what' rather than just 'never turn on the magnetron with the door open'"
@futurebird @troublewithwords
"Open the microwave door, HAL" -
AI powered microwave. Everyone must be laughing at this. This is such a joke.
People don't even use the damn popcorn button and that ... kind of works.
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So I assume you just put whatever in the microwave and it knows what it is and knows better than you what you want done with it ?
People will try that one (1) time and it won't work just right then they will press the +0:30 seconds button over and over like most people do with most microwaves.
Until they upgrade the firmware and the microwave refuses to do anything until you login one day. Then they will throw it away.
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AI powered microwave. Everyone must be laughing at this. This is such a joke.
People don't even use the damn popcorn button and that ... kind of works.
@futurebird the popcorn button might as well be hard wired to the fire alarm system.
Almost every fire alarm when I lived in the dorms was somebody using the popcorn button on the microwave and burning the popcorn.
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@futurebird @troublewithwords
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@futurebird the popcorn button might as well be hard wired to the fire alarm system.
Almost every fire alarm when I lived in the dorms was somebody using the popcorn button on the microwave and burning the popcorn.
Now imagine how much better it could be with AI. Not only would it start the fire alarm, it'd keep adding seconds as it saw fit until the whole thing legitimately bursts into flame.
