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For four consecutive quarters up through May, Samsung has dominated the home appliances market. With the announcement of the Galaxy Note 8 and its expanded Bixby capabilities such as Quick Commands (using small phrases to perform multiple actions simultaneously), as well as the global rollout of Bixby voice in English to over 200 countries earlier this week, Samsung is making a firm statement: that its Bixby AI, whether you want it or not, is here to stay.
But taking advantage of its success in the home appliances market involves staying ahead, and to do that, there must be a new perspective from which to approach the market. Since Bixby is an 8-year labor of love for the Korean giant, and the voice assistant has now rolled out to mobile devices, bringing the new AI to the home is the next best thing. To this end, Samsung says that it looks to expand Bixby and voice assistant capabilities to smart home appliances by 2020.
This means that Bixby will be used to control the home through Samsung Connect. Samsung's Family Hub refrigerator already utilizes Bixby to perform certain commands (Samsung rolled out Bixby via a software update to the Family Hub 2.0 refrigerator back in May), but the Family Hub will be used to call robot vacuum cleaners to the kitchen or turn on the washing and drying machines (as the Family Hub will control the kitchen setting). Samsung Connect will be used to tie the entire home together, as home automation dictates.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @12:38AM
Do not want.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @12:39AM (1 child)
Does it call the fire department when it burns your house down?
(Score: 2) by lx on Sunday August 27 2017, @05:46AM
Actual video of Bixby keeping you safe. [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @12:42AM (7 children)
There are some weird names in this field. But Bixby? Really?
Can Bixby help you bribe the South Korean government?
(Score: 4, Funny) by Gaaark on Saturday August 26 2017, @12:59AM (1 child)
No, but when it gets mad, it turns green and rips it's shirt.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by stretch611 on Saturday August 26 2017, @02:09AM
This is Samsung... It doesn't turn green, it turns red hot until the battery explodes.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday August 26 2017, @01:09AM (3 children)
The tech industry and stupid names go together like drinkin' beer and smokin' grass.
The morons who came up with the Ubuntu naming convention are a good example of that retardation. Wanna smack them in their snouts with a rolled-up Sunday newspaper.
What would be nice is to have a smart appliance with Majel Roddenberry's TNG computer voice and all the cool sounds the Enterprise-D computer makes. Shouldn't be too much hassle for modern eggheads to analyze the context of conversations to determine whether or not they are making a request in saying the word, "computer."
The DS9 computer acknowledgement sounds are also pretty cool -- now if only I could wire up something like its counter-insurgency program for home-defense.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @01:18AM
You can already say "Computer, order me 55 gallons of lube" using Amazon Alexa.
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/1/23/14365338/amazon-echo-alexa-computer-wake-word-star-trek [theverge.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @05:41AM
Stupid people make stupid noises.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday August 26 2017, @09:45AM
As long as it isn't run "in the cloud" (on someone else's computer) by a megacorporation.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @03:37AM
When I hear Samsung Bixby, it makes me wonder if I'm a closet racist. But who am I to begrudge anglophilia?
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Saturday August 26 2017, @01:57AM
No, there's no polite way. Fuck samsung.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @03:46AM (1 child)
or was it just a nod and a wink and business as usual?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 26 2017, @03:49AM
Wrong company.
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(Score: 2) by Sulla on Saturday August 26 2017, @05:54AM (2 children)
My wife really sucks at getting housework done, usually ends up with me doing it while the twins scream at me for not playing with them. As much as I hate the idea of this, it sounds like something that might be useful in keeping my sanity. Although who knows how it will register the random shit toddlers say.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Saturday August 26 2017, @03:01PM (1 child)
A washing machine listening to everything that happens in your house and reporting back to the mothership might be able to turn itself on by voice command, but it sure won't load itself. Sounds like you get the benefit of not having to walk 5 feet to turn a dial or press a button, in exchange for all of your privacy.
(Score: 2) by Sulla on Saturday August 26 2017, @07:48PM
I said unsure not "shutup and take my money" . Five feet can be a lot when I have two toddlers shrieking at the top of their lungs, a wife throwing up from morning sickness, and a grandmother with alzheimers complaining that its too loud and demanding coffee. I don't think there would ever be enough convenience to make spending 1-2k per appliance and needing fridge/stove/freezer/washing/dryer/dishwasher a good idea, not even accounting for privacy.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Saturday August 26 2017, @05:57AM (1 child)
I am concerned this will give live TV and Radio advertisers yet another way of annoying the shit out of us.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @02:40PM
No problem. Samsung will brick your smart tv.