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Why does a fridge need to know your habits?
It has to keep the food cold all the time. The light has to come on when you open the door.
What could it possibly be learning
Hi Zron, you seem to really enjoy eating shredded cheese at 2:00am! For your convenience, we’ve placed an order for 50lbs of shredded cheese based on your rate of consumption. Thanks!
We also took the liberty of canceling your health insurance to help protect the shareholders from your abhorrent health expenses in the far future
If your fridge spies after you, certain people can have better insights into healthiness of your food habits, how organized you are, how often things go bad and are thrown out, what medicine (requiring to be kept cold) do you put there and how often do you use it.
That will then affect your insurances, your credit rating, and possibly many other ratings other people are interested in.
I wish products followed your lead and had no AI features, 1995 Toyota Corolla :/
I think you're being sarcastic, but I unironically agree. Cars and fridges can, and should stay dumb, with the notable exception of battery management systems in electric vehicles. That's the single acceptable use case for a car IMHO.
Oh I absolutely agree, some things don't need to be "smart".
Imagine if someone put a microchip in a potato peeler claiming that it would add features like "sensing the amount of pressure applied to the potato to ensure clean peels". The reason they haven't done that is that data would only benefit the user, and they can't think of a way to have it benefit the company's profit margins.
I think car play is a wonderful feature. My car should absolutely allow syncing up to my phone. I don’t think it should telemetry or anything like that though. But I think internal process monitoring should also be a thing. Display error codes, show me that a tire is low, monitor a battery, etc. but the manufacturer shouldn’t get that info. My car shouldn’t know my sex life, and the manufacturer definitely shouldn’t
So I can see what you like to eat, then it can tell your grocery store, then your grocery store can raise the prices on those items. That's the point. It's the same thing with those memberships and coupon apps. That's the end goal.
They can see what you like to eat by what you're buying, LOL. No, not this.
A fridge can give them information on how do you eat.