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The graphic designer must have been so pleased with themselves when they thought of using a grain rice as the dot on the “i” in “AI rice” graphic. It really makes it.
Genuine AI rice cooker - "Oi dingus, you've put in rice for three people, but your cooking habits indicate you're eating alone.. again... Like every other night"
I think this issue has popped up in recent years because we've hit a wall with technological advancement. Maybe not a wall but a severe slow down at least lol. We're all so used to huge jumps in new tech every 3-5 years (or less) so whenever something new pops up, it **must** be the new hotness, right? But alas, not really, and we just return back to the standard tech, that slowwwllyy gets better every year in smaller and smaller increments
@@Yixdy You think this popped up in recent years? Fun fact: Did you know that everything that had to do with 3D, way back when was just called "virtual reality"? Technology and buzzwords go hand in hand :D
Something people often forget. They always go "but it can't think". Oh really? Can it not? Oh gosh I wonder why it can't do quadrillion thoughts a second and analyse them to find the best one in real time. (sarcasm btw, computers still aren't that fast)
one comment said that AI isnt intelligent, and the more replies it gets the more i believe your statement to be true. Some people just srent intelligent so AI probably IS as smart as them 🤷♀️
That episode also changed my life. I honestly want him to also do a Clothes Washer test of the same vein. I CANNOT find Laundry Powder anywhere to test with…
I need to see a Dankpods/Technology connections collab. I don't care what it's on. Then have James over and just absolutely hacksaw some abomination of technology together and see if they can BSOD Alec
Tefal is one of the biggest European brands of home appliances. If you go to a Walmart equivalent here, you can bet there's gonna be Tefal there, right beside Samsung, Whirlpool or LG. The brand belongs to Groupe SEB, which is the world's largest manufacturer of cookware. Wild. Them making and selling this is basically as if Sony branded their PS5 "Nuclear Energy Enabled" just because there was a nuclear power plant in your country.
almost all SEB's devices (there are also brands like Rowenta, Krups, WMF) are like this, but Optigrills are pretty nice (and there's an oldschool rice cooker, the RK10)
Terrible analogy, the cooker contains a computer that makes independent decisions, so it literally contains (one of the most basic forms of) AI. Also tefal regularly makes garbage that deceives consumers.. like nontoxic nonstick cookware 🙃
@@ShouPowor maybe just buy non stick pans and make sure you don’t damage them?? And even if they’re a little damaged you’re not gonna die, one of my pans has a little scratch and I’m still doing fine.
Ey. If Sony labeled the PS5 or PS6 "Nuclear Energy Enabled" like they are doing with AI right now? I mean if the console is not nuclear or anything? It sounds freaking rad having the console you buy be named Nuclear Energy Enabled! AWWW Yea! Remember when Xbox 720 was a thing we said? And instead Xbox named there next console Xbox One... And then Xbox X. Or S? Witch one is better? S or X? Series S? Speed? Now if Sony put in nuclear crap in there console? Nope. Not having that! Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox X. Xbox S. PlaySation, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS4 Pro, PS5, PS5 Pro, Nuclear Energy Enabled.
@@shiftless215 Or just buy a pan that is MADE non stick from the getgo We got a big pan like that, with some kind of weird texturing to it, but no chemicals. You can scratch the shit out of it, and nobody will know because it doesnt do anything to it.
Another instance of companies slapping AI on whatervers: my phone's built-in gallery app is called "AI Gallery" and the only features that resembles AI are face recognition for -scooping data to sell- categoriziation, and the auto setting when editing an image. Those features ar used on gallery apps WAY before the AI boom of today, and the company was looking for an excuse to slap """"AI"""" on a simple gallery app. There wasn't even a image generation feature, not even an upscaler using modern AI.
Imagine training an AI to cook rice, you'd have to get at least 100 rice cookers cooking rice all at once and then taste test every single batch or something
Always happens. Remember when stuff was "radium energized"? Then we went through electric (fun fact, Triscuts are called that because they were cooked in electric ovens, and marketed as "Electricity Biscuits"), on to jet, atomic, solid-state, space-age, funky, computerized, "2000", e-thingy, iThingy, HD, na-no, smart, cloud, blorkchain, and now, "AI".
@@lucidnonsense942what the hell are you talking about? Did you not see him throw in the bag of rice and the bottle and then start the rice cooker? When it finished it was in the bottle. nOOb!
Look into a Zojirushi rice cooker. I have nothing but good things to say about mine! Easy to clean, easy to use, plays a tune when the rice is finished... what's not to love?
I would have loved to have a Zojirushi, but they're unaffordable where I live. So I went for the Koreans instead and got me a Cuckoo - great machine (too)!
I have a Toshiba RC-6LH Rice cooker I got at a garage sale for $5. No idea how old it is, definitely at least 80s. Makes rice just fine so long as the ratio is right. Even has a warming function!
they sell non-stick pans, pots and similar stuff in australia, they're not a premium brand but not cheap either. I didn't know they made kitchen electronics too.
Like just working in manufacturing, you figure out that you can fine tune a process, program a PLC to give the right output per the input, and you got it nailed down. Any variable you want to account for, you can just do the math ahead of time and program it in. That's the only "AI" you need. People do the thinking, with Taguchi Orthogonal Arrays and whatever, and you tell a chip "do this when this happens". And that's what they did here despite the stupid marketing. We've been doing it in machines by using relays and clockwork since before the transistor even existed!
The most basic rice cooker is one of the best appliances in my opinion. The only reason my wife and I want to upgrade is to get a bigger rice cooker, same mechanism but just bigger
fuzzy logic is actually really cool when it comes to controlling systems, can efficiently produce some great results simpler solutions can't, like very fast heating without overshoot, can do it better than PID (old king) also how "intelligent" an algorithm is is usually dependant on the amount of operations it has to do to fulfill it's functionality, and fuzzy logic does indeed not usually do a ton of operations. in the simple applications, it moslty works on simple (like linear) functions or lookup tables
Hey man just wanted to say that I’ve been going through a lot lately but despite everything there is always the time to watch your videos at the end of the day, they cheer me up so much, thank you 🙏
I can't wait for the future where we need AI and an internet connection to use our rice cooker, toaster, microwave, hair dryer, water heater, bed covers, couch, stairs, chairs.........
I think that's the best part of this thing. It advertises having AI but that kinda stuff doesn't function without the internet. So it's literally a lie.
@@joeconti2396Ai does not need the Internet, but an "ai rice cooker" wouldn't be able to fit the necessary hardware for it without being an expensive, oversized abomination.
@@amentco8445 It would, but it'd be shitty expensive to fit a trained model to just not make the rice in a bad way. And knowing it needs parameters to determine how not to make awful rice (and other products, I assume), there's heaps of sensors in there!
Honestly my $7 Kmart Rice cooker has been a WORKHORSE for me and it still does so well! Its the most basic machine in the world but it does everything I need it to (cook rice, keep rice warm when its cooked) and i love it!
A device that wants to keep track of time while it's off needs a battery. Your computer's motherboard probably has one too, for that reason. Otherwise it would have no idea how much time has passed since it was unplugged and replugged (in the case of the rice cooker) and the timer would just reset each time, like crappy alarm clocks do when the power goes out.
@@paulbaker9879 Maybe you can set a clock and have it come on at a certain time. I wouldn't know since I don't have one, and to be fair judging from the display I doubt it, but it's not unfeasible.
@@paulbaker9879please say you don't eat rice regularly and move on. People schedule their rice to cook for when they come home from work all the time. Just because you can't/don't/don't know how to use something, doesn't mean other people are equally as clueless.
@@ShouPow Still doesn't need a battery, set the clock and leave it plugged in... Or set a delay start timer like you can do with cheap portable Air Cons
@@joeyh5761 for your tiny mind: dinner tables don't have plugs usually, so when you bring the cooker (which is usually an insulated chamber to keep it hot) to the table to eat, it gets unplugged. Many come with removable or retractable cords for this purpose. Another commenter graciously added that the Micom chips in cookers require a live clock to keep time and activate their functions. Idk wtf raycons do, but the fact you own them speaks volumes. So again, just say you don't use rice cookers regularly and move on. You're a narrow minded fool who asserts his perception is absolute. Tired and in this case, just plain pathetically wrong.
There is a reason "Artificial Intelligence" gets slapped on everywhere, as it's a very broad term that can be applied to any form of logic Which means it can be interchangeable with Fuzzy Logic, and any algorithm that has multiple outcomes, as simple as it can be It's used differently in today's world given the context, but originally that's what it referred to Think of old games using the term AI/CPU as the opponent, even though they didn't use Neural Networks back then Those are the terms that are actually meaningful and specific: Neural Network, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, etc
@@MacPhantom It is very frustrating I agree, I am a software engineer, and I can't count the amount of times this term has been used to manipulate people into thinking the product is doing anything new, even before OpenAI became popular
Honestly as a musician and recording engineer, the Audient evo sp8 has intriguing ai assisted auto gain control for all 8ins and the integration of ai in ableton live 12 is sick. The similar drum sound feature and many others
The current wave of "AI devices" reminds me a lot of a previous wave of "smart appliances". Oh, look, your toaster can connect to your phone via an app and bluetooth! Why would you want a toaster that does this? Fuck if I know, but it means they can charge an extra thirty bucks!
I love working in videogames during the whole AI craze; when I'm trying to research doing proper enemy AI doing a google search just turns up reams of complete crap
Not to mention when you talk about working on AI you only ever get people either getting really suspicious of you, or getting WAY too excited that makes me suspicious of them. Great times we live in, great times
Tefal is actually huge in Central and Eastern Europe and selling more or less same models as Multicooks/Multichefs and not rice cookers. Spherical bowl is also Tefal-exclusive shenanigans and useful for popular local dishes like all sorts of pilafs and buckwheat with beef. They are also famous for their long warranty and reliability (my Tefal toaster is working form 30 years now and it was bought by my dad). That being said, AI Riceis a total silliness and highligts how much product positioning change from region to region.
The explanation of how the rice cooker works is also how my egg hard boiler works, you put water in the bottom of the tray, and it boils the water which steams the eggs to hard boil them, that when it runs out of water, the magnet will exceed the 100° and turn the machine off and chime a cute little song. So simple, but it uses way less water than a traditional pot for boiling hard boiled eggs, and I don't overcook them by accident because it's done when it's done.
I love that meme in the beginning. I'm using a simple image recognition AI model for my security cameras, and yesterday it thought my lawnmower was a person with 76% confidence
I used to work at a Tefal repair center, the amount or crap that company does is truly something 3:28 yes, very much a lie 4:35 this plunger looks the same, but contains an NTC 6:25 no, it switches the heating element with relays (the sanyou things in this case), which are on or off
@@SheepUndefined I guess it comes on an off more often and with a bit more precision than just a thermostat could provide (and there are some predefined behavior profiles)
I got a "fuzzy logic" zojirushi over a decade ago that the clock battery has run out on now. Not a big deal for me but I can see being able to set it to finish cooking at a specific time being useful for some, and having to set the clock again every time you bring it out and plug it in would get old eventually.
I have a pressure cooker from ALDI that is over 13 years old and still works well so far and it cooks great rice. I didn't know there was so many Rome's in the USA by the way.
Pot on stove is okay in a pinch (using middle finger to measure water), an old-fashioned basic rice cooker is good, and that Zojirushi thing is great! I love that thing. Perfect rice every meal. 😁
Hate to be the "acktually guy" here but actually you can make boiling water hotter than 100 Celsius. Ofcourse we need to pressurize it to do so and i know you didn't say it completely that it isn't possible, but it still made me feel like i should mention it. For example Nuclear power plants with VVER-440 reactors are using the pressured water to keep it in liquid form until it gets into the vaporizers.
Tefal here in Lebanon 🇱🇧 are actually a really big company. When you want to buy something for your kitchen, you have the low quality Chinese whatevers, and you have Tefal. And maybe Tupperware, but that's expensive territory.
Technically, the stove in my apartment from the late 50s, early 60s (General Motors Frigidaire) has “ai” as when it gets up to temperature in the stove it turns off until it cools down. Same with the coils on the range, it heats up for a bit then turns off
The biggest issue with this for me is the nonstick inner pot will wear out quickly and if you really want a *sustainable* one buy a rice cooker with a stainless inner pot.
I love the fact that you summed up Technology Connections Video in like ⅒ of the time and still made a video that’s almost as long. You channel is great, Technology Connections is great!
Jura, a Swiss coffee machine manufacturer, once advertised one of their products with AI... because it counts the number of times you chose a specific type of coffee and then it sorts the list according to that.
I have the model up from this and i have to admit it cooks rice perfectly every time and you can keep it in warm mode for hours without anything clumpling or sticking
Fuzzy Logic comes from 1965 and was old hat for AI in the 1990s. I guess someone saw that they were using fuzzy logic (and probably had been for years) and decided to rebrand it
We actually did cover rice-cooker's and their fuzzy logic in my AI classes 6 years ago, it's legit a tool in AI but just not generative-AI like we think of when we hear AI today
Pro tips for Rice; Wash it first - put the desired amount into a strainer and rinse it til the water is clear. Put a splash of oil in it - like we're talking 1-2 drops of so. This helps a little to prevent the rice from going claggy and it also helps with the flavor a bit too.
