9 Questionable AI Products From CES 2024

Unsolicited suggestions from my appliances is exactly what the modern kitchen is missing. Samsung's new fridge can keep an inventory of what's inside of it, let you know what's about to expire, and suggest recipes based on the food you have.

Photography: Samsung

If you think unsolicited suggestions from your fridge is bad, wait until your toothbrush starts telling you what to do. That's the job of the Oclean Ultra X, which will nag you from inside your mouth using bone conduction technology.

Photography: Oclean

From the Vokswagen ID.7 getting GPT integration to BMW partnering with Amazon to bring Alexa's large language models to its cars; we're approaching a future where your car will be smarter than you. Or, at least it will be better at parallel parking.

Photography: Volkswagen

Being a birder used to be hard work. You had to read and go outside to see them do their bird things. But Birdfy's bird feeder is changing all that. Now you can sit in the house and be notified when you have a visitor at your bird feeder. And instead of going outside, you can look at it through the built-in camera. The built-in AI will also give you information about the bird, so you don't have to know things.

Photography: Birdfy

It seems that tech companies are more optimistic about autonomous robots than science fiction writers are. Will our AI assistants be more like Rosie from the Jetsons, or the T1000? I guess we'll find out.

Photography: Ogmen Robotics

From AI-powered navigation to built-in voice assistants, these tiny cleaning machines are getting smarter than ever before. Before you know it, they'll be targeting your pets to stop the messes at the source.

Photography: Roborock

This grill comes with its own grill master. Gone are the days when you needed to know how to cook to make a good dish. Now the grill will do the hard work for you.

Photography: Future

Samsung and LG both intend to release TVs with AI enhancements. These tools are supposed to improve the image and audio quality, even though features like this tend to have unintended results like visual artifacts. Not to mention, most people can't tell the difference between 4K and 8K anyway.

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