The washing machine with integrated AI broke my brain. This must be the most useless thing I’ve ever encountered in my entire life.
Not just ai it could also make phone calls
We believe that the washing machine is the hearth of the modern laundry room
And it’s a Samsung appliance so rest assured it’s complete garbage
At least VLC had a neat table there
They better have had traffic cones on their heads. The mental image that creates is quite funny with the contrast to the serious businesmen trying to sell AI one booth over.
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/24339817/vlc-player-automatic-ai-subtitling-translation
The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages.
Ok now that’s cool. Since it’s often all doom and gloom here, celebrating good tech is a nice change :)
Since VLC is open source, can we expect this AI subtitle generator as a separate product that could be used in, say, jellyfin?
I use subgen to generate my subtitles locally. I have it linked to Bazarr but apparently there’s webhooks for Jellyfin.
Apparently there’s a pluggin for that already: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/discussions/6105
Oh actually not specifically for that, but sounds like it would be possible, maybe make a feature request for it once the vlc ones source is available.
The smart crib seems particularly dystopian to me. We don’t even need to wait for children to develop enough fine-motor functions to make use of smartphones or tablets, we can start collecting data on them before they even utter their first word!
How long before the smart cribs have ParentAI attached to them? Let the computer raise your child!
We’re already at least one generation into womb to tomb data collection.
A tomb? In this economy? 😂
Best I can do is unceremoniously flop your limp corpse on the pile and sprinkle a little lye on it.
Be sure to read the Eula-g
SoundHound AI’s In-Car Commerce Ecosystem powered by its Automotive AI
Catchy name.
I also liked
LGs AI Home Inside 2.0 Refrigerator with ThinkQ
So much waste.
What no AI-enabled bidet?
Actually, I can get behind that.
I see what you did there 🍑🚽
Honestly AI bidet weighing your shit and analyzing the consistency to indicate possible health problems would not be a horrible use for it. A shit ton of bodily functions rely on gut flora. Much more than previously thought.
Data leaks are about to get even more personal.
You wouldn’t download a
carstranger’s fecal records.
Except the “AI” part would be using a linear static formula to adjust the brightness of the RGB LEDs based on ambient light which only works when connected to the wifi and you must install a dodgy likely spyware app that requires a $49/yr subscription to keep it working.
The buttons would probably be a touchscreen though. Which is annoying because now you are running an ugly 2m USB C cable to the nearest outlet you needed to buy a 40w usb-pd charger for they didn’t mention you would need to buy on the box - you know, because we all just have the myriad USB charging technologies already in our homes.
And resulting health data sold for mere pennies. So health targeted ads can be flooded to your personal device.
Flooded. Bidet. I smell what you did there
shit ton
I see what you did there.
I really love stuff like this.
These are the kind of things rich people would fawn over and hold others over on about having the latest tech. But then it’s like, you see this shit, you realize how better off you are without them.
Doubles down too, because within a week the novelty wears off and the rich people don’t use it, it’s just sitting in the corner, collecting their data, possibly raking in a subscription fee that they forgot about.
