You may have noticed the bru ha ha of late about AI and how it’s going to wipe us all out, according to the newspapers but it’s all around us and has been for years. Even here.
A short time ago, we planted two articles that were AI-generated to see if anyone noticed. Nobody did.
We did this as an experiment more than for any other reason just because we were curious and whilst we knew we’d not written these pieces nobody else did or appeared to have picked up on it or at least, nobody’s said anything.
You see, we’d noticed that on some of the review sites that we talked about a while ago in this article about whether you can trust reviews or not, what we didn’t get into was whether you can trust the responses. We say this as now companies can automatically, at the touch of a button get some or all using third-party AI generators to give a response to a review.
It saves typing, time and so on.
We tried it and didn’t like it so all our sarky comments are our own and not AI-generated.
It did however get us to thinking, “Jeez, you often can’t trust the reviewer now you can’t even trust the reply is real!”
AI All Around
AI is used in a huge number of things, probably the phone in your pocket or sat on your desk has some form of AI in it in the face recognition for example and stuff like that.
It’s used in banking to detect fraudulent or possible fraudulent activity.
Search engines now use it pretty openly so that the masses like us can use it and you will often see it being advertised as a feature on some products, which brings us to AI power appliances.
AI In Appliances
There is no doubt that AI could potentially be used in a meaningful way in appliances. Probably.
But we can’t see it being able to completely take away human error or to solve some of the things that it may be claimed to.
For example, we saw a washing machine that proclaimed it made use of AI and all we could do was to think, “How, why, what does it do?”. From what we could tell it tries to work out the load, the water volume and so forth but we’d not have pegged that as AI, we’d have called that fuzzy logic not so long ago as it’s not so much “intelligent” as working out what it should do based in simple programming and conditions.
That sort of thing has existed for at least a couple of decades.
For us to call that AI, while it might be technically true, is a bit of a stretch.
If people are worried that their “AI appliances” are about to revolt and start trying to kill them, no, that Ian’t gonna happen. At least not yet.
But with all the fear being whipped up about AI just now don’t be too surprised if that gets quickly dropped from all the marketing, as some people might just think that their shiny new appliance might be out to get them.
A good video that will explain AI, kinda, generally can be viewed here:
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