Yeah yeah go ahead and make fun of me for being old fashioned and a technophobe. That's fine. But don't come crying to me when your toaster gains sentience and nukes Caprica.
I do robotics for a living in the middle of silicon valley, we are no where near that point. AI is basically a buzz word at this point. The best we can do is get a car to navigate city streets at 15 mph.
More worried that my car is gonna call the cops or my insurance company on me for driving 5 over the speed limit or braking too fast and actually responsibly avoiding an accident. Apparently some new models will track that shit.
I don't need an app to tell me when the toast is done, relaying all of the information between toaster and phone through a server maintained by some random guy with a toast fetish
My trouble is I enjoy tech, even built my own computer. I deeply resent when corporations think that I need a "smart thermostat" that guzzles half my internet connection so Jeff Bezos can spy on me.
"internet enabled toaster" yeah right, the toaster just wants to know your wifi password and then it's a quick hop skip and jump to the planetary defense codes