Vendor Electronics Show
I think it’s consumer-electronics show, as opposed to an industrial-electronics show… Though I get your point.
What no AI-enabled bidet?
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.
Actually, I can get behind that.
I see what you did there 🍑🚽
The washing machine with integrated AI broke my brain. This must be the most useless thing I’ve ever encountered in my entire life.
My ten year old basic units are still looking new. Nothing to really go wrong with them and I bet I can get parts for cheap. I know when they’re done because I just wait a little while after I start them, then I know they’re finished.
And it’s a Samsung appliance so rest assured it’s complete garbage
Not just ai it could also make phone calls
Gives it a fallback to send surveillance data to samsung, even if you don’t connect it to a network
We believe that the washing machine is the hearth of the modern laundry room
You really do have to be a brainless twit to work in marketing.
But i can’t hear shit when my washing machine is on! Let alone have a fucking phone call! Who comes up with this shit…
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.
Robert’s interview with the AI home assistant robot guy this year was unintentionally amazing, the dude was dressed like Jordan Peterson (ie. an insane person) but had all the interviewing skills of a parboiled potato. And he had no clue that Robert was clowning on him so hard.
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.
This is fantastic, thank you for sharing. I’ve struggled with some media not having suitable subtitles available for download.
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.
This is something I’m very much behind. I think firefox is doing something similar if i am not mistaken. One of my favorite shows is a Japanese tv show called GameCenter CX. Fans create subtitles but its a lot of work. Lately they have been using ai to generate subtitles and while some are a bit messed up, you at least get the idea what is going on and they can work off of that if necessary.
Firefox has offline translation and image alt-text tagging (for screen readers), but people bitched about it when Mozilla introduced it.
I’m glad people seem broadly receptive of it now that VLC is doing something similar.
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
Even ten years ago it was getting tough to find baby monitors that didn’t have video and/or Wi-Fi.
I looked up “Parent AI”, and was disappointed
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
I was going to try and edit in some more "AI"s but it’s already near saturated
They even changed their name to SoundHound AI?
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.
So much waste.
