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Great (I guess depending on how you look at it) omen for the supposed “AI revolution” of the future economy/job market.
If you think 50% of the workforce will be washed out in the next few years, I have a few AI scams to sell you
Two of the bigger issues regarding adoption of IoT devices are: 1) privacy concerns; and 2) closed “ecosystems”.
Nobody wants to buy devices that they feel may be spying on them. Nobody wants to buy devices that can only be “controlled smartly” by Google/Apple/Amazon smart devices (which have privacy concerns of their own) and often only after paying a subscription fee.
People want total control over the products that they buy, including control over the data that these products produce. The idea that LLMs are going to fix the perils of at-home IoT devices is totally absurd. “Sure, let’s add another privacy concern in on top of those that already exist. And the consequences of LLM hallucinations can make my energy bills way higher!”
What is actually needed are smart home contractors who understand how to set-up open source smart home systems. Basically all contractors who do smart home stuff set up walled off, overpriced, and feature-limited nonsense, like Control 4. It’d be nice to see more companies with the expertise to get people set-up with Home Assistant.
Such contractors would likely need a skilled programmer or two on staff. Many LLMs can help those programmers be more productive.
As a former IT network engineer, who knows a little bit about how some of this stuff works, who wants a light bulb you can’t turn on or off unless your phone, your Internet connection, your WiFi, the companies servers (and all of the third party software they use), and the device is working 100%. There are just too many things to go wrong.
The only smart device I had worked somewhat reliably for about two years, but the company behind it has upgraded to a newer model and now no longer supports the device I have. Luckily I still have the manual remote, so the device is not bricked. The “somewhat reliably” part was a function that was supposed to happen a sundown and sunset. Twice a year for about two weeks around the time change everything would be off by an hour. This year the “sunset” function has stopped working. That’s when I found out the company no longer supports my device.
Be very careful about using smart devices, for all of the reasons listed in all of the comments!
I forgot that I have Nest thermostat. It came with the home and I tolerate it. I have turned off almost all of the smart features because they were too unpredictable and would often have undesirable results. The “smart” leaning would decide that we should have been out to lunch and it would adjust the temperature, or that I shouldn’t have been up so late, and the AC would kick on because I was supposed to be in bed. I even had a situation a few winters ago when I was away for a month, the battery charge went critically low because the furnace wasn’t running enough to keep it charged, so it shut down the Wifi. When I had a neighbor check on it, it was still functional and when the weather got cold enough to make the furnace run more often, it came back online. You don’t need that kind of unpredictability for a device that really should have one job.
Exactly all this. Why force devices that have simple controls (on/off and timers) onto unreliable WiFi and app servers?