I’m hanging on to my 2003 BMW sedan with a maniacal grip — as every car I’ve considered buying today would jam me into the auto industry’s version of IofT—and never mind all of my driving habits being sold to the insurance companies. Thank god I live on an island, I’ve only 70 thousand miles logged on a 20+ year car. They’ll bury me in it.
The central mistake is the propeller hats keep putting plumbing as the main feature. IoT works fine if automation and networking is wanted,just as blockchain is a clever key exchange mechanism, but these are not user facing. These should make the system more efficient but they keep ramming them into everything and telling us it’s better than the invention of refrigeration (which it’s not). AI should be a feature not the whole show. But alas, propeller hats.
Glad to deliver. FWIW,my full stance. If we spoke of GEN AI as not some new fangled, confusing tech black box but as an automation tool then I believe the average person would be better equipped to have a nuanced discussion. AI automates tasks that would take time - see the kerfuffle about improving accents in the movie the Brutalist. A human could manually enhance an accent (either by the actor getting better 🤣🤣 or by manually tweaking knobs on a device) but it currently takes too much time. There is a quality/character difference between automated output and handmade, let’s have that discussion and let people put their values on the table.
I still remember reading the book Abundance ten years ago that told us of all these promising IoT things that would be happening in the next 5 years. I’ll never forget every soda cup in the world was supposed to have an IP address so if you didn’t pay for soda the machine just wouldn’t turn on when you put an off network cup beneath it. I think about it all the time and how believable it was then and how insane it sounds now.
Really great, succinct. This is the kind of sharp and short anaylsis you can send to friends who are not yet entertaining what a disaster it could all be.. LLTM
Thank you, this made me smile for a change RE this boring topic. Great to see AN lover of tech taking on this Glorious AInimal and kicking it's ass.
While the world is worshipping at the Golden Calve some of us, albeit a minority, can see the horrific feet of clay. It will be so nice when this jaggernaut implodes, which we know, it will.
Probably three decades ago I was doing some interesting stuff with this AInimal at IBM. At least we could help some physically challenged people in the process.
So nice to be part of your club, you should actually create a undercover UG around this, it could be fun to help constructively derailing the dreams of all these mad scientists!
The hands down absolute best IoT thingy had to be (drum roll, please) …..
“The Cellmate Chastity Cage, built by Chinese firm Qiui, lets users hand over access to their genitals to a partner who can lock and unlock the cage remotely using an app. But multiple flaws in the app’s design mean “anyone could remotely lock all devices and prevent users from releasing themselves,” according to UK security firm Pen Test Partners. Breaking open the chastity cage by hand would require bolt cutters or an angle grinder.” https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/6/21504019/internet-enabled-male-chastity-cage-cellmate-qiui-security-flaw-remotely-locked
I’m waiting for some McKinsey scum to say the quiet part out loud, fold IoT and generative AI into one (useless) product, and sell it to executives as “Bright Shiny Objects In Primary Colors.”
I work in home building, specifically Offgrid, and the IOT everything was stupid. Unless you’re building an Offgrid house.
The reason is, you actually needed applicances to talk and work together for legitimate cost and value reasons.
For instance, in an Offgrid house you need to not have everything running at once, you need the water heater, the hvac system and Tesla charger to ramp up and down based on what else is running for a savings of $7000~
If you also can have those items run preferentially during the day, you can save another $10,000-$13,000
In lithium batteries
The problem with IOT is that there wasn’t a real use case, but there is for Offgrid.
Ai is world class at online search, try perplexity pro
I use it to read manuals and configure settings for my solar and battery systems
Ai can do math faster and better than 99% of the population, we use it to analyze our building plans, measure square footage, generate a materials list and estimate the cost to build a house
We use it to calculate manual J calculations
I’ve used it recently to engineer my concrete slabs
IOT replaced nothing.
Ai is replacing engineeers, accountants, sales reps, customer support people, teachers, researchers and personal assistants.
They are not the same as IOT, this article is true to the extent that some things don’t need AI
But you’re missing the fundamental part that AI is a BETTER engineer already than any engineer I’ve ever worked with. And a better personal assistant than you could ever hope to hire
I read somewhere they are doing this on purpose to stop people buying appliances for life. They basically want things like fridges etc to go on update cycles like they fucking iPhones – utterly pointless and wasteful.
Sorry, I mean that it’s always touted as revolutionary by those selling it. I’m not convinced. It will have utility, and smart people will figure out good use cases, but I’m not sure it’s going to come in the form of stuffing into our software or products.
I’m hanging on to my 2003 BMW sedan with a maniacal grip — as every car I’ve considered buying today would jam me into the auto industry’s version of IofT—and never mind all of my driving habits being sold to the insurance companies. Thank god I live on an island, I’ve only 70 thousand miles logged on a 20+ year car. They’ll bury me in it.
Love it! They can float you into the ocean in it like some kind of Viking-like tribute
The central mistake is the propeller hats keep putting plumbing as the main feature. IoT works fine if automation and networking is wanted,just as blockchain is a clever key exchange mechanism, but these are not user facing. These should make the system more efficient but they keep ramming them into everything and telling us it’s better than the invention of refrigeration (which it’s not). AI should be a feature not the whole show. But alas, propeller hats.
Propeller hats. I like that.
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Glad to deliver. FWIW,my full stance. If we spoke of GEN AI as not some new fangled, confusing tech black box but as an automation tool then I believe the average person would be better equipped to have a nuanced discussion. AI automates tasks that would take time - see the kerfuffle about improving accents in the movie the Brutalist. A human could manually enhance an accent (either by the actor getting better 🤣🤣 or by manually tweaking knobs on a device) but it currently takes too much time. There is a quality/character difference between automated output and handmade, let’s have that discussion and let people put their values on the table.
I still remember reading the book Abundance ten years ago that told us of all these promising IoT things that would be happening in the next 5 years. I’ll never forget every soda cup in the world was supposed to have an IP address so if you didn’t pay for soda the machine just wouldn’t turn on when you put an off network cup beneath it. I think about it all the time and how believable it was then and how insane it sounds now.
And completely pointless? Stolen soda hardly a world-ending problem. A great example of finding a problem for the solution.
Really great, succinct. This is the kind of sharp and short anaylsis you can send to friends who are not yet entertaining what a disaster it could all be.. LLTM
Feel free to share! ;)
Already done (x3!) my friend : )
Thank you, this made me smile for a change RE this boring topic. Great to see AN lover of tech taking on this Glorious AInimal and kicking it's ass.
While the world is worshipping at the Golden Calve some of us, albeit a minority, can see the horrific feet of clay. It will be so nice when this jaggernaut implodes, which we know, it will.
Probably three decades ago I was doing some interesting stuff with this AInimal at IBM. At least we could help some physically challenged people in the process.
So nice to be part of your club, you should actually create a undercover UG around this, it could be fun to help constructively derailing the dreams of all these mad scientists!
The hands down absolute best IoT thingy had to be (drum roll, please) …..
“The Cellmate Chastity Cage, built by Chinese firm Qiui, lets users hand over access to their genitals to a partner who can lock and unlock the cage remotely using an app. But multiple flaws in the app’s design mean “anyone could remotely lock all devices and prevent users from releasing themselves,” according to UK security firm Pen Test Partners. Breaking open the chastity cage by hand would require bolt cutters or an angle grinder.” https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/6/21504019/internet-enabled-male-chastity-cage-cellmate-qiui-security-flaw-remotely-locked
I can’t wait for the AI upgrade.
What could possibly go wrong ???
Haha. That's a hall of famer right there.
I’m waiting for some McKinsey scum to say the quiet part out loud, fold IoT and generative AI into one (useless) product, and sell it to executives as “Bright Shiny Objects In Primary Colors.”
Oh, I'm sure they will, all for the small consulting fee of millions of dollars.
Unfortunately, the tech bros just got a promise of $500 billion in government aid from the Trump administration.
That would be real troublesome if not for the fact that Trump’s promises often fall short when it comes to actually paying for stuff.
Richard had some good points
Here are a few of my thoughts
IOT didn’t have a real use case
Ai has at least 15
I work in home building, specifically Offgrid, and the IOT everything was stupid. Unless you’re building an Offgrid house.
The reason is, you actually needed applicances to talk and work together for legitimate cost and value reasons.
For instance, in an Offgrid house you need to not have everything running at once, you need the water heater, the hvac system and Tesla charger to ramp up and down based on what else is running for a savings of $7000~
If you also can have those items run preferentially during the day, you can save another $10,000-$13,000
In lithium batteries
The problem with IOT is that there wasn’t a real use case, but there is for Offgrid.
Ai is world class at online search, try perplexity pro
I use it to read manuals and configure settings for my solar and battery systems
Ai can do math faster and better than 99% of the population, we use it to analyze our building plans, measure square footage, generate a materials list and estimate the cost to build a house
We use it to calculate manual J calculations
I’ve used it recently to engineer my concrete slabs
IOT replaced nothing.
Ai is replacing engineeers, accountants, sales reps, customer support people, teachers, researchers and personal assistants.
They are not the same as IOT, this article is true to the extent that some things don’t need AI
But you’re missing the fundamental part that AI is a BETTER engineer already than any engineer I’ve ever worked with. And a better personal assistant than you could ever hope to hire
Maybe the data harvesting was the main point after all, rather than the actual utility.
I read somewhere they are doing this on purpose to stop people buying appliances for life. They basically want things like fridges etc to go on update cycles like they fucking iPhones – utterly pointless and wasteful.
I mean... they are use cases, for sure. Hardly revolutionary though.
Sorry, I mean that it’s always touted as revolutionary by those selling it. I’m not convinced. It will have utility, and smart people will figure out good use cases, but I’m not sure it’s going to come in the form of stuffing into our software or products.