I don’t use Haier products but a similar thing happened with Chamberlain when they blocked the MyQ integration even though it was using the legitimate API and not breaking any rules. No attempt to work with anyone in the HA community at all, just shut everything down.

On one hand, this means projects like Home Assistant are getting popular enough to have enough usage to effect these companies. So that’s great! In the long term, we’ll all figure out solutions, but in the short term it feels like an increasing fight between corporate and open-source control over smart devices.

How is Apple going to monetize DuckDuckGo to make up for that $9 billion, without compromising their other efforts w/r/t user and data privacy?

Flying cars are the stupidest idea, especially since helicopters have existed the entire time and everyone just refused to accept that fact.

I don’t see how AI is going to solve any of that if the intended result is to make getting actual support as frustrating as possible. If anything adding AI to the mix will just make things even more frustrating–but simultaneously also harder to pin down why so it could be stopped.

How many companies can one person effectively run at a time? Doesn’t Musk also have smaller companies like Boring and Solar City to manage, on top of giants like Tesla and SpaceX?

I think you are likely right, but it’s more general than just about training costs. The term “AI” carries a ton of baggage, both good and bad.

To some extent, I think we also keep pushing back the boundary of what we consider “intelligence” as we learn more and better understand what we’re creating. I wonder if every future tech generation will continue this cycle until/unless humanity actually does create a general artificial intelligence–every iteration getting slightly closer but still falling short of “true” AI, then being looked at as a disappointment and not worthy of the term anymore. Rinse and repeat.