Damn Christmas deals
We had a goal and we eliminated it. The idea itself affected us.
The sales have just begun (made in Notan).
For only ten thousand dollars you can have a flesh and bone AI on your sofa. Invading your space and consuming batteries.
A noble, interesting offer, silicone perfectly sensitive to the touch.
But the fucked up thing about the case is that I've spent those pesetas and they've sent me a dumb AI.
I've jumped off the sofa and by pure automatism I've fallen in front of the packaging. I rummage through so much styrofoam and cardboard paper, not a fucking complaints address. Damn Christmas offers.
To start with, it only answers every question in something like Chinese. So I've taken off its clothes and it has a small screen where to type and everything in unrecognizable letters.
I only understand a plug symbol that flashes constantly, it's high voltage.
The plugs are from another era, another galaxy. I've never seen anything like it. The dogs bark, the neighbor barks. I hear her while I try to strip cables to connect the dumb Companion. The neighbor has a fucking gift for making anyone feel like murdering her. The dog and the neighbor merge into a melody of insults and barks.
They bother me in my task, I really don't give a damn about their anguishes. I have a rubber ear in my pocket. I've cut a bit on the arm, with one of my knives for gutting rabbits, to see the quality of the silicone and besides it smells awful. Not even the Chinese would dare so much. Cables writhe and lights tick-tock out of control. The companion looks at me, it's about to speak my language, I read it in its little eyes, of a dumb machine that wants to survive my own apocalypse.
I think if it stops lighting up, I'll have to unplug it. Not because it scares me, but because it starts looking at me too much. That clumsy way of begging, as if it had understood that here no one comes to be repaired.
Maybe then I'll sit it on the sofa again. Not as company, but as proof. Something to remind me that even artificial intelligence knows when it has been bought to fill a hole that was already broken.
If it turns off completely, I suppose it will serve the same. To hang hats, to leave some friend's coat, or to confirm that in the end it wasn't so dumb: it had just learned too quickly where it had fallen.
Translated and image created by me using Grok.ai
1.25 am
I am curious about the language it speaks. Who knows it can teach you that one or how to survive in a world of dumb people in a different galaxy.
No one wears a hat so there's no need that AI doll does or collects them. It must be good at something except for filling a spot on the sofa and keep it dust free. Did you keep it's clothes? What if it's good at hunting? You can try it out on the neighbour's dog, that barking and shouting of the owner is annoying.
All together the smell is the worst and the styrofoam... Can it be used to build our own adventure park?
It's as if each time you order something the company added its trash as well.
I liked the story. I hope that the one I ordered shows some intelligence, does hiuse chorus en if stupid it plays dumb (keep it's mouth shut).
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I wish to have one for house chores.
That I would like too and not too talkative, and if no longer needed, I park it in a closet.
Be capable with house chores and be invisible.
I used to have a cleaner coming over weekly many years ago because I wasn't able to do anything at all at the time. She was too friendly and too talkative. Stressed me out whenever I know she's coming over
I had one as well. She only chatted and I felt very annoyed, it tired me out. I am afraid that good old fashioned housekeepers or cleaning ladies are hard to find.
I told the kids to look for one again but they don't like strangers to touch their stuff and it makes them uncomfortable to have a stranger in the house.
An AI doll could be perfect but I hope they drop the price.
There are plenty of cleaning services around, but finding one that’s actually good is another story.
We really need affordable robotic housekeepers.
We only have those tiny bugs crawling over the floor and you still need to clean them and another one for an English garden. No way it can do mine.
2026 and the Jetsons didn't do house chorus 🤔 we are hubdreds of years behind 😖 all those films are big lies they better focus on this first and the washing machine.
I’m still hoping to get a high-end robot vacuum and mop someday. The ones with the best reviews are quite expensive, and the affordable ones I’ve tried just didn't help much.
I’m hopeless when it comes to mopping—there are always streaks, or it just doesn't feel clean enough.
The only way I can get the floor clean is the 'Japanese style'—using a rag and a pail of water on my hands and knees.
Unfortunately, my body can’t handle that very often.
Right! We all got conned by sci-fi films... where are the flying cars?
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Even if it's for export purpose, they almost never bother to include anything but Chinese language manual