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The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026 (techcrunch.com)
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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 86 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The AI detects when the machine’s about to freeze up and make noise, so it automatically defrosts before things get loud.

Are we using "AI" to describe microcontrollers now?

Have a machine run something at a certain temperature (or range of temperatures) is about the simplest thing to program.

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In a lot of cases “AI” is slapped on as marketing buzzword for anything with even a simple algorithm controlling it.

We got a new “AI” washing machine last month. As far as I can tell it the same as last years model just with some of the auto settings renamed to something AI.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My oven was discontinued and the new on has an air fryer setting...which is just the same as thenstandard functionality

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But it's not the same as the standard functionality. It's just convection mode, but that's not a standard oven feature.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I heard fan ovens are not common in the US. Which makes it understandable there and large Asian cities where space is a premium and letting properties dont necessarily have full ovens either.

My oven ws fan and the new version is fan with an airfryer setting too.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 5 points 3 days ago

They're definitely more common in the US than they used to be, but it's not quite a standard feature yet.

But I do agree it's a bit silly to relabel convection as air frying, unless the air frying setting is actually different (like fan his faster or something).

Although thinking about it, it's not the worst relabel since most people are more familiar with the term air fryer.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 points 3 days ago

Baader-Meinhof ! I learnt about this recently because my boiler is broken. I assume it's the strip. Haven't stripped it down yet

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

AI is pretty much any conditional statement at this point. I saw a YouTube video talking about AI in decades old video games.

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 19 points 3 days ago

TBF, specifically for games, enemy behavior has been called "AI" for decades.