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pigpoptoday at 7:02 PM0 repliesview on HN

There's no (long term) point getting bent out of shape about this sort of thing. Every time we invent some new, widely applicable technology people will use it for all kinds of weird and seemingly pointless things. Most don't pan out or are simple gimmicks that lose their appeal after a while but some do work and continue on. It's just part of discovering what's possible, what works and what doesn't so being a curmudgeon about it is useless at best or will memorialize you as humorously incorrect for the rest of time.

When electricity was "the hot new thing" people tried all kinds of bizarre and seemingly insane things with it, at least from our modern perspective.

Things like:

The Electric Table Cloth, one of the first "wireless" home gadgets https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/hgemyu/an_ele...

The Schnee Bath, because what's better than a bath for healing and relaxation? An electrified bath! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Schnee%27s_four-...

The Solar Bath Apparatus, they say sunlight is good for your health so let's turn it up to 11 https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolRidiculous/comments/15h7ce...

and there were many others whose initial designs were incredibly inefficient or dangerous but which turned into real products that we still use today after refinement. Toasters used to just be the bare heating element and left you in control of handling the toast with a long fork or tongs. The original electric blanket was a metal pan with a lightbulb in it that you used to warm up your bed. Some of the first electric razors just added a vibrating motor to a normal safety razor. The great-grandfather of electric lighters was a fireplace poker that heated up like a soldering iron so you could jam it into your fireplace to light it (and you can actually still buy these! https://www.dopogrf.com/product-p-769347.html).

So let's just laugh at the funny and quirky uses people are coming up with for AI rather than being a grouch. It's entertaining and we will probably get some really useful inventions out of it in the long run.