Comment by camjw
2 days ago
Maybe I don't understand exactly what you're describing but why would anyone pay for this? When I bring home the shopping I just... chuck stuff in the cupboards. I already know where it all goes. Maybe you can explain more?
One use case I imagine is skilled workmanship. For example, putting on a pair of AR glasses and having the equivalent of an experienced plumber telling me exactly where to look for that leak and how to fix it. Or how to replace my brake pads or install a new kitchen sink.
When I hire a plumber or a mechanic or an electrician, I'm not just paying for muscle. Most of the value these professionals bring is experience and understanding. If a video-capable AI model is able to assume that experience, then either I can do the job myself or hire some 20 year old kid at roughly minimum wage. If capabilities like this come about, it will be very disruptive, for better and for worse.
Sounds like what Hololens was designed to solve, more in the AR space than AI though
This is called "watching YouTube tutorials". We've had it for decades.
But what if there's no YouTube tutorial for the exact AC unit you have and it doesn't look like any of the videos you checked out?
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It would be nice to be able to select a recipe and have it populate your shopping list based on what is currently in your cupboards. If you just chuck stuff in the cupboards then you have to be home to know what they contain.
Or you could wear it while you cook and it could give you nutrition information for whatever it is you cooked. Armed with that it could make recommendations about what nutrients you're likely deficient in based on your recent meals and suggest recipes to remedy the gap--recipes based on what it knows is already in the cupboard.
Maybe I’m showing my age, but isn’t this a home ec class?
I took home ec in 2001. I learned to use a sewing machine, it was great.
But none of the kitchen stuff we learned had anything to do with ensuring that this week's shopping list ensures that you'll get enough zinc next week, or the kind of prep that uses the other half of yesterday's cauliflower in tomorrow's dinner so that it doesn't go bad.
These aren't hard problems to solve if you've got time to plan, but they are hard to solve if you are currently at the grocery store and can't remember that you've got a half a cauliflower that needs an associated recipe.
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> why would anyone pay for this?
Presumably, they won't as this is still a tech demo. One can take this simple demonstration and think about some future use cases that aren't too different. How far away is something that'll do the dishes, cook a meal, or fold the laundry, etc? That's a very different value prop, and one that might attract a few buyers.
The person you're replying to is referring to the GP. The GP asks for an AI that tells them where to put their shopping. Why would anyone pay for THAT? Since we already know where everything goes without needing an AI to tell us. An AI isn't going to speed that up.
Yes it's pretty amazing how so many people seem to overcomplicate simple household tasks by introducing unnecessary technology.
Maybe some people just assume there is a “best” or “optimal” way to do everything and AI will tell us what that is. Some things are just preference and I don’t mind the tiny amount of energy that goes into doing small things the way I like.
Maybe they're imagining more complex tasks like working on an engine.