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Good luck exporting that to the EU.
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Can't wait to ask my door if I can go out today.
China’s biggest home appliances company, Midea, has launched a series of DeepSeek-enhanced air conditioners. The product is an “understanding friend” who can “catch your thoughts accurately,” according to the company’s product launch video.
It can respond to users’ verbal expressions — such as “I am feeling cold” — by automatically adjusting temperature and humidity levels, and can “chat and gossip” using its DeepSeek-supported voice function, according to Midea. For those looking for more DeepSeek-powered electronics, there are also vacuum cleaners and fridges.
Big Brother wasn't in the TV it was in the A/C.
Who had 'murdered in their sleep by Henry the Hoover' on their bingo card?
It can respond to users’ verbal expressions — such as “I am feeling cold” — by automatically adjusting temperature
LOL. Who in hell wants to talk to appliances like that? If I wanted to talk to an appliances at all (not really) it would be to give very explicit instructions, not some vague complaint.
and can “chat and gossip"
Translation: "We couldn't figure out how to get an LLM to not do this, so we're just going to call it a feature."
China’s biggest home appliances company, Midea, has launched a series of DeepSeek-enhanced air conditioners. The product is an “understanding friend” who can “catch your thoughts accurately,” according to the company’s product launch video.
This doesn't really sound like a revolutionary use case.
Chinese media have hailed DeepSeek for saving the day in the city of Wuhan. When the police received a report that five stray horses had been wandering around at night, they asked the chatbot for information on nearby horse farms. Officials were able to locate the owner by visiting the farms DeepSeek suggested.
Maybe an LLM query ran faster than doing a search in a map tool, but by how much?
Something tells me that "catch your thoughts accurately" was the real mission all along.
This doesn't really sound like a revolutionary use case
It's basically the same as a non-LLM voice assistant.
Maybe an LLM query ran faster than doing a search in a map tool, but by how much?
Can't be that much, since someone could pull up the satellite navigation on their phone, to much the same effect these days. At most it saves maybe a minute.
So chinese companies are enshittifying too. Super cool
Tbh, I'm more worried about their advances in EUV lithography. Still around 5-10 years away, but still.