It's just really unusual to hear some of my biggest "early adopter" friends filled with bile for AI. And well I'm right there with them. I'm irritated most by the dishonesty of the claims about what it can do. With "internet of things" the objection was not "you can't track your water bottle on the internet, it won't work the way you describe" it was more like "why would you want to do that?" and "your data will be sold to companies, you will be spied on"

Both proved to be correct.

The "internet of things" failed to deliver on it's most exciting promises mostly due to corporate resistance to interoperability. Alexa can't make a google calendar event, your light system is in a war with the system that controls the thermostat.

Every company aimed for market dominance, boxing out the others, and it has made everything harder to use, more buggy and worthless.

But it's probably for the best that seamless control did not materialize. This is protecting us from 'agentic' AI agents running around causing even bigger problems.

Alexa struggles to communicate with different brands of lights, and this is by design in this desperate hope that people would lock in and buy everything from one company. AI agents will face even worse issues since the concept of interoperability isn't even on the radar of these clowns. They think they can just power through it.

@MisuseCase

This would be much more concerning if IoT had been more cooperative and standardized. But it's a huge mess and if you have a good working network devices it's an isolated island.

The capitalism of it all was protective by being inefficient.

@futurebird It’s still not great because if you have IoT devices on the same network as your regular devices, it makes it much easier to hack into your meteor and all your stuff.

Also you can do things like see the inside of someone’s house through their poorly secured nanny cams and baby monitors. 😬