I personally can't wait for brands to start specifically advertising "doesn't use AI" as a selling point because everyone got burned by their AI controlled toaster, literally and figuratively. For anything designated an "appliance" I want it to be fixable by someone locally, or it's just throwing money away.
It's not gone, but is much more expensive up front. For example, everyone I know has a range or stovetop/oven with a circuit board or two in it, few if any replaceable parts, etc... That's basically the standard if you're in the 30" range that costs $1-2k market. Meanwhile, my 60" Bluestar has no circuit board, it has four mechanical electronic switches for the oven lights and convection. Everything else is brass valves, standard easily replaceable parts and so on. A few weeks back a convection fan went out and I replaced it in 5 minutes with a screwdriver. But, this range starts at $18k.
I'm curious if we will reach a situation were the steam punk idea becomes reality:
People plugging weird stuff together like a ai chip from a car into a toaster.
If ai becomes hardware chips it could easily be that language processing will be a chip default feature and the rest is teachable like plugin ai chip level 3 into it, boot it and teach it that it's now a toaster.
But at the end we will have the same toaster in 30 years as we have had for the last 30 years.
I'm sure that in 2045, the Hacker News of its time will be complaining about lack of AI-less devices the way it complains about lack of smart-less TVs. It'll be available, it'll be more expensive, and the people who claim they want it don't want it enough to pay the premium.
