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A comment on Ask HN: If you could automate one thing in your home, what would it be?.

Re:Ask HN: If you could automate one thing in your home, wha... by gregcohn on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @01:24AM (#5523359)
So many of these suggestions are mechanical chore-doers. If I could automate my home to inspire me, that would be something. To wake me up intelligently, get me pumped up to work out, inspire me with art and music at other times... you get the idea.
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Re:Ask HN: If you could automate one thing in your home, wha... by brwr on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @10:44AM (#5525420)
Again, this would mean a hyper-intelligent home far beyond the realm of current artificial intelligence capabilities. At the very least, we would require a machine that could pass the Turing test and, from there, we would have to make it understand emotion.

The day of the butler and maid will soon be past, and the home itself will be your steward.

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