Technology

The less technologically literate shout "AI is theft!"

Conspiracy theorists whisper of "government surveils" and "brain hacking chips"...

As a result, those who don't understand new technology become fearful of it.

In itself, "AI" is a total buzzword.

I get AI has its uses but I don’t need my mouse to have any thing AI related (looking at you Logitech).

Hi, I'm annoying and want to be helpful. Am I helpful? If I repeat the same options again when you've told me I'm not helpful, will that be helpful? I won't remember this conversation once it's ended.

Hi, which option have you told me you already don't want would you like?

Sorry, I didn't quite catch that, please rage again.

I have no qualms about AI being used in products. But when you have to tell me that something is "powered by AI" as if that's your main selling point, then you do not have a good product. Tell me what it does, not how it does it.

I'll use it more when its has a proven reliable use.

This is because AI is usually used to reduce the human cost to the company, and rarely to reduce the human labour for the customer.

That, or mass surveillance.

If I could have the equivalent of a smart speaker that ran the AI model locally and could interface with other files on the system. I would be interested in buying that.

But I don't need AI in everything in the same way that I don't need Bluetooth in everything. Sometimes a kettle is just a kettle. It is bad enough we're putting screens on fridges.

"Water is wet! Fire is hot!"