At least VLC had a neat table there
Robert’s interview with the AI home assistant robot guy this year was unintentionally amazing, the dude was dressed like Jordan Peterson (ie. an insane person) but had all the interviewing skills of a parboiled potato. And he had no clue that Robert was clowning on him so hard.
They better have had traffic cones on their heads. The mental image that creates is quite funny with the contrast to the serious businesmen trying to sell AI one booth over.
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/24339817/vlc-player-automatic-ai-subtitling-translation
The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages.
Ok now that’s cool. Since it’s often all doom and gloom here, celebrating good tech is a nice change :)
Since VLC is open source, can we expect this AI subtitle generator as a separate product that could be used in, say, jellyfin?
I use subgen to generate my subtitles locally. I have it linked to Bazarr but apparently there’s webhooks for Jellyfin.
This is fantastic, thank you for sharing. I’ve struggled with some media not having suitable subtitles available for download.
Apparently there’s a pluggin for that already: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/discussions/6105
Oh actually not specifically for that, but sounds like it would be possible, maybe make a feature request for it once the vlc ones source is available.
This is something I’m very much behind. I think firefox is doing something similar if i am not mistaken. One of my favorite shows is a Japanese tv show called GameCenter CX. Fans create subtitles but its a lot of work. Lately they have been using ai to generate subtitles and while some are a bit messed up, you at least get the idea what is going on and they can work off of that if necessary.
The washing machine with integrated AI broke my brain. This must be the most useless thing I’ve ever encountered in my entire life.
And it’s a Samsung appliance so rest assured it’s complete garbage
Not just ai it could also make phone calls
We believe that the washing machine is the hearth of the modern laundry room
You really do have to be a brainless twit to work in marketing.
But i can’t hear shit when my washing machine is on! Let alone have a fucking phone call! Who comes up with this shit…
My ten year old basic units are still looking new. Nothing to really go wrong with them and I bet I can get parts for cheap. I know when they’re done because I just wait a little while after I start them, then I know they’re finished.
SoundHound AI’s In-Car Commerce Ecosystem powered by its Automotive AI
Catchy name.
I also liked
LGs AI Home Inside 2.0 Refrigerator with ThinkQ
I was going to try and edit in some more "AI"s but it’s already near saturated
They even changed their name to SoundHound AI?
What no AI-enabled bidet?
Actually, I can get behind that.
I see what you did there 🍑🚽
Honestly AI bidet weighing your shit and analyzing the consistency to indicate possible health problems would not be a horrible use for it. A shit ton of bodily functions rely on gut flora. Much more than previously thought.
Except the “AI” part would be using a linear static formula to adjust the brightness of the RGB LEDs based on ambient light which only works when connected to the wifi and you must install a dodgy likely spyware app that requires a $49/yr subscription to keep it working.
The buttons would probably be a touchscreen though. Which is annoying because now you are running an ugly 2m USB C cable to the nearest outlet you needed to buy a 40w usb-pd charger for they didn’t mention you would need to buy on the box - you know, because we all just have the myriad USB charging technologies already in our homes.
shit ton
I see what you did there.
And resulting health data sold for mere pennies. So health targeted ads can be flooded to your personal device.
Data leaks are about to get even more personal.
You wouldn’t download a
carstranger’s fecal records.
The smart crib seems particularly dystopian to me. We don’t even need to wait for children to develop enough fine-motor functions to make use of smartphones or tablets, we can start collecting data on them before they even utter their first word!
How long before the smart cribs have ParentAI attached to them? Let the computer raise your child!
We’re already at least one generation into womb to tomb data collection.
A tomb? In this economy? 😂
Best I can do is unceremoniously flop your limp corpse on the pile and sprinkle a little lye on it.
Be sure to read the Eula-g
Even ten years ago it was getting tough to find baby monitors that didn’t have video and/or Wi-Fi.
I looked up “Parent AI”, and was disappointed
Vendor Electronics Show
I think it’s consumer-electronics show, as opposed to an industrial-electronics show… Though I get your point.
So much waste.
