> No doubt the recipient will also be using some form of AI summarization that strips away all that added "polish" - making the whole exercise entirely redundant!
Not entirely, there’s still the energy usage and stock price increases. All because everyone’s too anxious to just talk to each other directly.
> Flagle Explorer stands at the forefront of educational gaming, offering an immersive flag guessing experience that transforms how you learn about world geography.
Dial back the puffery a bit, sheesh. This must be AI generated, no one would write this with a straight face for a casual daily web game.
Look at it from the vendor’s perspective. Most people still want to be able to access and control their home from outside their home network, which generally means going through a hosted server, so why go to the extra trouble of implementing a separate method for local LAN only when you could just use the same central server? It’s almost always the case that the local LAN can access the internet, so there’s not much incentive to make it more efficient.
Yes, ideally the local user should just hit the local hub directly, but it’s double the development effort for negligible benefit.
I agree there isn't much incentive, and this is where standardised local protocols like ZigBee, Z-Wave etc come in; I can buy the hardware I want and run it how I want and those who want simplicity can buy a local hub, which can cover the cost of the hosted servers I have no interest in.
Failing that, I'd settle for manufacturers adding an option in their app of wherever suitable, that will let me change the server URL and leave me to it, I'll reverse engineer then protocol, or if they're feeling generous they can open source or provide an API doc.
Unfortunately, my experience reverse engineering lots of devices over the years is that they're often sharing more than they should, and subsidising the devices they sell you with your data.
There is also an overwhelming number of hardware manufacturers who just have piss poor software with atrocious security who should probably be embarrassed to release their code.
We already know what it's like in home WiFi router world.
Not sure what the autocorrect did there, but basically that the AI tech is being packaged with a bow and a set of turnkeys practically.
To expound, AI can analyze and profile people based on the smoke data collected on them, can identify and track individuals using surveillance state monitoring (us already has the monitoring).
So ai can track your day to day movements, thoughts, actions, spending, whatever. It can learn your gait, track micro expressions, recognize you in disguise. All these have been done. China tracks people individually and assigns a score rating their good communist citizenship
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