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Re:Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features by ntoskrnl_exe on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:29AM (#45606608)
I'm waiting for the day we get microwaves with an AI that turns them off once the timer reaches zero.
Re:Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features by blahgeek on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:36AM (#45606690)
Actually it already exists. My microwave have a button labeled “AI” which suppose to run the microwave until it determines the food is ready.
Re:Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features by kiddico on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:46AM (#45606829)
If it has a humidity sensor it'll likely work, but doesn't need "AI"
Re:Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features by antisthenes on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:52AM (#45606927)
Any logic where you could use an if condition will be marketed (probably already is) as "AI".
Re:Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features by ekianjo on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:42AM (#45606789)
We have had this function for dozens of years in Japan already
Re:Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features by kiddico on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:46AM (#45606843)
The world has had it, you just have to buy it.
Re:Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features by immibis on Thursday October 16, 2025 @01:42PM (#45608386)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiS27feX8o0 (it's Technology Connections about a really old microwave that does this well)
Re:Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features by bookofjoe on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:33AM (#45606656)
Mine have had that for as long as they've existed.
Re:Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features by marcosdumay on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:41AM (#45606774)
Does it send the zero-time notification to a cloud LLM endpoint that will send back a 10 kB JSON that instructs the oven to turn off? (Or not, how could we predict it?)
Re:Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features by autoexec on Thursday October 16, 2025 @12:50PM (#45607710)
Every microwave turns off when the timer reaches zero. It'd be better to have AI that turns it off when the timer reaches one so that I don't have to quickly stop it before the bell goes off. Better yet, a mute function would do the same thing.