“LG and Samsung Pull Back the Curtain on Witty, Home-based AI Assistant Robots”
“LG and Samsung unveil smart home AI assistant robots”
“LG and Samsung have joined the league of tech giants embarking on the ambitious project of smart home AI assistants. They’ve unveiled robot assistants at the opening of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in an effort to dominate the future home market.”
Remember when the most helpful thing a TV could do was just to show you your favorite show without the slightest glitch? Ah, those were the simple days, weren’t they? Now, if your TV isn’t cooking your breakfast and walking your dog, it’s practically prehistoric. Cue LG and Samsung, the latest players to the high-stakes poker match of AI assistant innovations.
Both tech giants have demonstrated how they intend to worm their way into your home life. LG’s risqué invention, affectionately named CLOi, assumes the role of your toothy domestic aide. From preheating your oven to ordering groceries for you, it makes you reminisce fondly about a time when not having enough milk for your coffee meant a disaster-filled day.
Meanwhile, Samsung introduces ‘Bot Care’. Evidently, the company has abandoned the task of thinking up imaginative names and opted instead for a straightforward approach. Bot Care is essentially your resident health obsessive, encouraging you to partake in regular health checks, and subtly hinting at a visit to the doctor. It’s like having a small, robotic, quietly judgmental personal trainer living in your home.
However, let’s not overlook the obvious, the elephant in the room, the data privacy concerns. Just how comfortable should we be, letting these mechanised homemakers, observe our most private moments? Or is it the case we’ve seen too many sci-fi films and are now unjustly suspicious of ‘robo-kind’?
Convenience is the catchword here, no doubt about that. But, isn’t a whiff of inconvenience what makes life, well, life? Maybe, just maybe, we should learn to cherish the mild bitterness of un-herbed chicken because we forgot to pick up thyme from the store. After all, we wouldn’t want to star in our very own episode of Black Mirror, would we?
Pioneering advancements or another cog in the surveillance wheel, call it what you will. But, next time you’re standing bleary-eyed in the kitchen, remember you could be having a conversation with your fridge about the lack of milk instead of just making a mental note to pick some up later. Is that the future we really want to wake up to? Or have we sleepwalked into it already?