My Siri never hears me when I call out to it but it woke up in a jiffy when Michael said “hey Siri” at the end of the video. I think they’re having an affair.
There's a sticker on my washing machine saying it has "AI". It's given me tremendous joy, I love the idea that a completely new sentient intelligence has its birthcry in my utility room and the only thing it's allowed to do for the rest of its life is clean my underpants.
Imagine thinking AI means "sentience intelligence" when AI has literally just been algorithms for years. Like are you an actual child that never played a game before? That's been called AI for decades, but it's obviously not sentient or actually intelligent. Stop expecting "AI" to be "AGI" when we're nowhere near there.
I'm looking forward to a smart bot coming along which will complete key tasks like clean, cook, go to work for me, raise my daughter and keep my wife happy. At that point I can finally fulfill my primary purpose of mindlessly doom scrolling on social media as our internet overlords require.
'Would you like some toast?..' 'No? How about some crumpets??.' 'Oh, a few English muffins??? What kind of bread products would you like toasted!?!' A toaster. Red Dwarf.
Our smart doorbell kept ringing at random throughout the day and night, when there was no one there. We then discovered that a spider was building a web in front of it and triggering the motion sensor. We now have hours of video footage of a spider building a web - no actual visitors though 😞
I'm intrigued by the plant on the window sill. Has a section of the blind been cut out to accommodate the plant and the pot it's in? I know that's ridiculous but so am I, so it's consistent, at least.
yes, some, and only some and also only sometimes. My smart bulb usually lets me hanging when I want to change color or want to switch it on from afar... or, weirdly, during some certain hours it won't work, so the bloody remote is useless and I have to get up to kill the lights (or the light bulb, which I want to do then... then next day I usually forget I switched it off and throw a tantrum on it since it won't work...) ☺😅
I think this is your best video since The Room Next Door. And the ones since then have been great! I'm sitting in a coffee shop laughing like a loon at the toxic relationships between the kitchen appliances 😂😂😂 Ironically, watching on my smartphone 😮
I did my design degree dissertation (30yrs ago) on how technology was no longer saving us from labour and chores, but was in fact giving us more and more to do, and was unnecessarily complicating our lives. Smart tech seems to have accelerated this. Luckily, the only ‘Smart’ tech I have to interact with is a work smart phone - and I spend more time responding to software updates, changing passwords, trying to sync the thing to something else, and generally getting it to function. It’s utterly useless in its primary role - a telephone. I use a 25 yr old dumb phone - it just works! Similarly my work laptop has been broken for around 18 months - I’ve rejected it, but the manufacturer keeps trying to repair it. Thing is, I have 30, 40, even 50 yr old appliances and electronic goods that just work - they do one thing - really well. Same with my car- it’s 14 yrs old, and it just works, unlike my colleagues’ up to date cars, which are laden with all manner of useless functions, and keep having to go back to the garage.
@@OutragedPufferfish I’m obviously on the internet - I have an iPad - otherwise I’d not be able to watch this video………I just don’t need to access the internet continuously while I’m on the move.
Have always wanted a Star Trek style computer in the house but you couldn’t pay me enough to get that Alexis or Siri setup, they just totally creep me out 😅
fun fact, the voice of the LCARS computer is voiced by the beautiful Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. She also played number one in the TOS pilot episode 'The Cage' and played Luxwanna Troi on TNG and DS9
And she recorded everything for someone to be able to create a system with her voice forever. Its a real shame that we can’t get any of that - i mean i would even PAY for siri or google assistant to stop saying “what can i do for you” and just make the “computer listening” sound effect and then talk back using the voice of Majel Barett. Computer; initiate comment sending sequence and engange
You’re right Michael; cats really don’t like us much at all, only as far as we feed them and allow them to sleep in the comfiest spot available in the house.
We have that litter tray! He mentioned a thing I have! I now feel justified in buying a giant robot poop tray. Which I still have to clean. And only one cat uses it. It cost £600….
I love all my smart stuff, but Google Home is thick as a plank. I really wish they'd hurry up and put one of these large language models into it, so it could be slightly less thick.
12:25 - "involved in" is an interesting choice of phrase. I wonder why you didn't say "responsible for". Also, how do those statistics stack up against fatalities caused by human drivers?
Smartphones have been making us less smart for twenty years, but you haven't noticed since we've already vegetated. I identify as a head of broccoli, by the way.
Watching my partner trying to get her cloth-eared iPhone Siri to set a timer while her MacBook Air Siri tries to take over is a comedy sketch in itself. Both Siris are hilariously inept. And for all Siri #1's cloth-earedness she sometimes butts into our conversation with some off the wall "mm-hmm" or "here's what I found...". She reminds me of Roger Irrelevant from Viz comic. I wouldn't trust AI as far as I could throw it!
I literally use my phone to call and text, but from time to time I will look up a location or a fact when I'm in a conversation. The thing about technology is it's great when it works but it makes people dependent on it so when it breaks down, they have no clue what to do.
Hey! don't knock the toilet! A few years ago I was lucky enough to visit Japan, and there was a smart toilet in my hotel room. I investigated every single button. Happiest fifteen minutes of my life! Thinking about it, that's probably not the sort of thing I should be writing on a RUclips comments section...
6:07 'All of us have a smart phone now'. Do we? My 19yo vintage Nokia is still going strong; only on its 3rd battery. Apps? I can actually live without them. The less BB knows the better. So I can't whoosh my phone when travelling by train/attending a concert/conference. I have to print my tickets. Seriously though, anything with the word smart, is to be avoided like the plague! Nice one Michael.
Love these new format videos keep them coming. Curious as to why you used the currency dollars for the treadmill and the word diaper not nappy. Presumably yt ad revenue is higher if you get Yanks watching? I have noticed a few other channels slipping that in.
That BBC ad with Zoe-bloody-Ball where she says ‘your smart speaker is seriously smart’ - no it bloody isn’t. Most of these devices are just voice recognition devices and far too often they don’t even recognise your voice!
'What are they going to do, hack my washing machine and add an extra spin?" Interestingly, that's pretty much exactly what 'Stuxnet' did to the centrifuges at that Iranian nuclear facility.
The number of references to Netflix across all of your content makes me think you're wanting your 'Netflix Comedy Special' about now.... contrary to your video about 'Netflix Comedy Specials'...... 😜
sadly, you won't get any old normal devices anymore, it all is silicone or "with Alexa" or Siri or with whathaveyou abilities. And I am not able to cope, really. ☺ I think I am a normal girl, I need the utmost normality in things. It has to be without anything really. Or I am unnerved, mostly. So that will be a nice future, won't it. ☺😆
I know it's for the joke but the point about hacking smart devices isn't to manipulate the device itself, it's to move laterally from that to other, higher value, devices like laptops and phones which are on the same network. Smart tech normally has poor security compared to the important devices. Think of it like having a bunch of door chains and Yale locks on your house but a crappy rusty padlock on your garage door, even though there is an internal door from the garage to the house. It's not your old bike or rusty lawnmower they want, it's an easy route to your jewellery and TVs.
That, and botnets if the attack happens to be a super widely reproducible one/not as detectable. I have also heard of ransomware ending up on a smart fridge although it's hard to be sure that was really the intended outcome.
Mr S. You are a genius. Brilliant acting. Excellent self direction. Ever thought of removing the self. You'd be an excellent director. You are so talented you could draw oxygenated, viscous haemoglobin based fluid from any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter. If you're not a millionaire. You should be.. Ritch
I've not long ditched my 'smart watch' for an old school analogue watch that only has three hands, the day and date. If nothing else, I got pissed off with charging the bloody thing every 4 days or so...
I just can't understand how people ever lived without smart watches. I mean they literally had to look at the sky and do some actual thinking to then conclude "it's the middle of summer, the sky is blue, it's probably going to be a hot day", instead of having a little band on their wrist tell them the temperature, air pressure and humidity.
How dare our smart devices not know that they can just use the local network to communicate instead of wasting time going to the internet and back for everything! Time for smart devices to act like it!
You would think people would start to develop an issue with everything being called smart except themselves. Yet the technology does have a fair point.
In the meantime, I got smarter in my later 40s and decided to switch my old laptop from like 15 years ago on Linux and even replace a broken hinge, by myself. Never in my dreams I thought I would do such things with computers. Smart appliances? Hell no. Even showing a middle finger to Microsoft and its AI and recall. My memory is great still, thankyouverymuch!
"Get a first job, then!". That did crack me up, self-references aside.
Yeah I laughed out loud at that one.
Jedi in a hatchback got me
My Siri never hears me when I call out to it but it woke up in a jiffy when Michael said “hey Siri” at the end of the video. I think they’re having an affair.
MY SIRI SAID "SORRY - I CANT DO THAT"
LOL
There's a sticker on my washing machine saying it has "AI". It's given me tremendous joy, I love the idea that a completely new sentient intelligence has its birthcry in my utility room and the only thing it's allowed to do for the rest of its life is clean my underpants.
Imagine thinking AI means "sentience intelligence" when AI has literally just been algorithms for years. Like are you an actual child that never played a game before? That's been called AI for decades, but it's obviously not sentient or actually intelligent. Stop expecting "AI" to be "AGI" when we're nowhere near there.
@@im1fadedRob haha calm down Robert. It was just a joke.
That's like straight out of a Douglas Adams novel. Planet of the washing machines.
😂😂😂😂
As a fellow Gen X-er, Michael, I really appreciate the way you skipped right over Gen X! Many thanks.
I was just about to say this. lol
My Mum and Stepdad are like that with their smart tv and their smart iron.
I was thinking the same thing 😂
Your fridge won't be happy when it sees this.
Sci-fi warned us of the existential danger of talking toasters in the 1980s but we didn’t listen.
I'm looking forward to a smart bot coming along which will complete key tasks like clean, cook, go to work for me, raise my daughter and keep my wife happy.
At that point I can finally fulfill my primary purpose of mindlessly doom scrolling on social media as our internet overlords require.
lmao, that made me laughcry
“Alrighttt, mateee” I’m dead😂😂
I can hear The Door in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! 😅
mmmmmmmmmm…. Glad to be of service!…..
'Would you like some toast?..'
'No? How about some crumpets??.'
'Oh, a few English muffins??? What kind of bread products would you like toasted!?!'
A toaster. Red Dwarf.
Not just any toaster, Talkie Toaster of Crapola Japan. Have a thumb, smeghead xx
Eddie the shipboard computer and the doors in H2G2.
So you’re a waffle man? 😂
Brilliant at the end. SIRI just subscribed and liked from the kitchen LOL
Food blenders have a real attitude problem. Killed me!
the London Cabbie mode killed me!! 😂🤣😂🤣😂
This taxi driver conversation sounds uncannily like a real one the author has actually had...
8:59 - "... REQUEST DENIED, YOU HAVE EXCEEDED YOUR DAILY CAFFEINE INTAKE."
Every word is the truth. Thank you Mr Spicer.
Jedi in a Hatchback is gonna be the name of my first album
I bought a pair of Smart trainers but they ran away
It turns out shoes have soles
I hope Michael Macintyre doesn't see this.
I'm so glad I discovered your channel, mate 😊😊
“Michael McIntyre: for f•••s same “. My sentiments exactly.
To name but one.
Our smart doorbell kept ringing at random throughout the day and night, when there was no one there. We then discovered that a spider was building a web in front of it and triggering the motion sensor. We now have hours of video footage of a spider building a web - no actual visitors though 😞
This RUclips channel is well worth watching
my Ipipe recommended it
All cat litter trays tell you when they've been used if you have a sense of smell.
@@BrockSamson-i1i I'm talking about after they've done a shit. It's hard to remove before they've done it.
I don’t need the litter tray to tell me. The cat informs me first.
Not according to cat owners
People with the grimiest houses always swear by roombas 😅
The content just gets better. Keep up the good work Michael
I'm intrigued by the plant on the window sill. Has a section of the blind been cut out to accommodate the plant and the pot it's in? I know that's ridiculous but so am I, so it's consistent, at least.
I don't get caught out by a gag often, but the hacker fridge line did me.
To be fair, some smartware is useful for disabled people who can't get up to turn a lightswitch on or whatever.
SOME.
yes, some, and only some and also only sometimes. My smart bulb usually lets me hanging when I want to change color or want to switch it on from afar... or, weirdly, during some certain hours it won't work, so the bloody remote is useless and I have to get up to kill the lights (or the light bulb, which I want to do then... then next day I usually forget I switched it off and throw a tantrum on it since it won't work...) ☺😅
@@manuela9671 Oh yeah, SOME of it's useful when it WORKS. 🤦 If your wi-fi's down, tough.
I think this is your best video since The Room Next Door. And the ones since then have been great!
I'm sitting in a coffee shop laughing like a loon at the toxic relationships between the kitchen appliances 😂😂😂
Ironically, watching on my smartphone 😮
I did my design degree dissertation (30yrs ago) on how technology was no longer saving us from labour and chores, but was in fact giving us more and more to do, and was unnecessarily complicating our lives. Smart tech seems to have accelerated this. Luckily, the only ‘Smart’ tech I have to interact with is a work smart phone - and I spend more time responding to software updates, changing passwords, trying to sync the thing to something else, and generally getting it to function. It’s utterly useless in its primary role - a telephone. I use a 25 yr old dumb phone - it just works! Similarly my work laptop has been broken for around 18 months - I’ve rejected it, but the manufacturer keeps trying to repair it. Thing is, I have 30, 40, even 50 yr old appliances and electronic goods that just work - they do one thing - really well. Same with my car- it’s 14 yrs old, and it just works, unlike my colleagues’ up to date cars, which are laden with all manner of useless functions, and keep having to go back to the garage.
I love having a smartphone. The internet is full of good information.
@@OutragedPufferfish I’m obviously on the internet - I have an iPad - otherwise I’d not be able to watch this video………I just don’t need to access the internet continuously while I’m on the move.
@@simonhodgetts6530 I do 😋
My car is indeed like my dog. I call it and it totally ignores me.
Genius
Your best work to date
😂👍
You still need a ten-year-old to help you use them.
When you are this ancient, I believe so. :)))
@@remusracingro3884 If you have nothing good to say, refrain from saying anything at all.
Such a pleasure listening to you, this time I couldn't watch, the lipsync was so out of whack, then I wondered if you were spoofing lipsync 😂❤
Netflix doesn't have 1940's Gangster Movies either 😟 Well, in Germany anyway
Have always wanted a Star Trek style computer in the house but you couldn’t pay me enough to get that Alexis or Siri setup, they just totally creep me out 😅
fun fact, the voice of the LCARS computer is voiced by the beautiful Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. She also played number one in the TOS pilot episode 'The Cage' and played Luxwanna Troi on TNG and DS9
And she recorded everything for someone to be able to create a system with her voice forever. Its a real shame that we can’t get any of that - i mean i would even PAY for siri or google assistant to stop saying “what can i do for you” and just make the “computer listening” sound effect and then talk back using the voice of Majel Barett.
Computer; initiate comment sending sequence
and engange
You’re right Michael; cats really don’t like us much at all, only as far as we feed them and allow them to sleep in the comfiest spot available in the house.
We have that litter tray! He mentioned a thing I have! I now feel justified in buying a giant robot poop tray. Which I still have to clean. And only one cat uses it. It cost £600….
I just realised you need to name and brand these videos as a series...and it should be called "Spicer's Spicy Take"
Michael Spicer is my favorite fictional middle aged English man
Siri , said he didn't understand that , thank you hahahaha
Oh, Michael! Diaper? I know you need to reach the 'Murican demographic, but still...
I was just checking someone else noticed that.
I noticed that too ☹️
That did also occur to me. 😂
I love all my smart stuff, but Google Home is thick as a plank. I really wish they'd hurry up and put one of these large language models into it, so it could be slightly less thick.
12:25 - "involved in" is an interesting choice of phrase. I wonder why you didn't say "responsible for".
Also, how do those statistics stack up against fatalities caused by human drivers?
Smartphones have been making us less smart for twenty years, but you haven't noticed since we've already vegetated. I identify as a head of broccoli, by the way.
"Ross Kemp would set this country straight..."
That took me OUT.
Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 was actually called Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. Perhaps that's why your Netflix got confused
*MY SIRI SAID "SORRY - I CANT DO THAT"*
Hahahahahahah
Watching my partner trying to get her cloth-eared iPhone Siri to set a timer while her MacBook Air Siri tries to take over is a comedy sketch in itself. Both Siris are hilariously inept. And for all Siri #1's cloth-earedness she sometimes butts into our conversation with some off the wall "mm-hmm" or "here's what I found...". She reminds me of Roger Irrelevant from Viz comic. I wouldn't trust AI as far as I could throw it!
He’s completely hatstand!
@@peterrenn6341 He is too 😂👍
Siri just went "Huh?". I have never heard Siri go "huh?" before.
The worst thing about driverless cars is poor old Jonny has lost his cabby job before it even began! 😢
Jedi In A Hatchback is my favourite song by the Smyths
This was a great video, Mate.
I literally use my phone to call and text, but from time to time I will look up a location or a fact when I'm in a conversation. The thing about technology is it's great when it works but it makes people dependent on it so when it breaks down, they have no clue what to do.
6:53 was perfect.
Hey! don't knock the toilet! A few years ago I was lucky enough to visit Japan, and there was a smart toilet in my hotel room. I investigated every single button. Happiest fifteen minutes of my life!
Thinking about it, that's probably not the sort of thing I should be writing on a RUclips comments section...
Love your humor 😊
My favourite "sensible chuckle" tier comedian
I have that fridge, I feel attacked 😂
That was genius. Tragically true though!
6:07 'All of us have a smart phone now'. Do we? My 19yo vintage Nokia is still going strong; only on its 3rd battery. Apps? I can actually live without them. The less BB knows the better. So I can't whoosh my phone when travelling by train/attending a concert/conference. I have to print my tickets. Seriously though, anything with the word smart, is to be avoided like the plague! Nice one Michael.
great as always!
Love these new format videos keep them coming. Curious as to why you used the currency dollars for the treadmill and the word diaper not nappy. Presumably yt ad revenue is higher if you get Yanks watching? I have noticed a few other channels slipping that in.
That BBC ad with Zoe-bloody-Ball where she says ‘your smart speaker is seriously smart’ - no it bloody isn’t. Most of these devices are just voice recognition devices and far too often they don’t even recognise your voice!
You articulate many thoughts I have very well. You're more useful than my Alexa gives you credit for. A wise wise guy. Thanks.
i dont have a smart anything, thank you...
'What are they going to do, hack my washing machine and add an extra spin?"
Interestingly, that's pretty much exactly what 'Stuxnet' did to the centrifuges at that Iranian nuclear facility.
Siri: "I don't understand, it's already liked and subscribed."
Best one yet 😂😂👌
The number of references to Netflix across all of your content makes me think you're wanting your 'Netflix Comedy Special' about now.... contrary to your video about 'Netflix Comedy Specials'...... 😜
Michael Spicer's Spicy Kitchen. I'd watch that on Netflix ;) And the driverless car AI was spot on, mate
"Michael McIntyre FFS" I feel the same.
Old man laughs at old man that shouts at sky 🤣
I prefer my old appliances - they weren't smart, but they had good common sense.
sadly, you won't get any old normal devices anymore, it all is silicone or "with Alexa" or Siri or with whathaveyou abilities. And I am not able to cope, really. ☺
I think I am a normal girl, I need the utmost normality in things. It has to be without anything really. Or I am unnerved, mostly. So that will be a nice future, won't it. ☺😆
Yet another great critique of our present day.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Who’s still on pay-as-you-go internet? That would mean using the internet more wound cost more unexpectedly?
I think there's also an element of consumerism at play here: people simply wanting to buy the best possible version of an object
Red Dwarf foretold our reality with the AI Toaster
I know it's for the joke but the point about hacking smart devices isn't to manipulate the device itself, it's to move laterally from that to other, higher value, devices like laptops and phones which are on the same network. Smart tech normally has poor security compared to the important devices.
Think of it like having a bunch of door chains and Yale locks on your house but a crappy rusty padlock on your garage door, even though there is an internal door from the garage to the house. It's not your old bike or rusty lawnmower they want, it's an easy route to your jewellery and TVs.
That, and botnets if the attack happens to be a super widely reproducible one/not as detectable. I have also heard of ransomware ending up on a smart fridge although it's hard to be sure that was really the intended outcome.
I'm now wondering about how the old 80s classic "Smart Casual" is going to manifest in this age of kafka devices..
Ahh tbf i love my smart bulb, i love sleeping in my disco
How does the London cabbie mode sound like my mother with a head cold. The dubious political leanings and taste in comedy are uncanny
Haha, great video. I tell you who makes me laugh though...
.
Mr S. You are a genius.
Brilliant acting. Excellent self direction. Ever thought of removing the self.
You'd be an excellent director. You are so talented you could draw oxygenated, viscous haemoglobin based fluid from any
naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of
minerals or mineraloid matter.
If you're not a millionaire. You should be.. Ritch
a Jedi in a hatchback 😂😂
I’m happy I have no smart wear. A phone and my music playing ball… that’ll do me.
It's the companies that are smart, so true!
I've not long ditched my 'smart watch' for an old school analogue watch that only has three hands, the day and date. If nothing else, I got pissed off with charging the bloody thing every 4 days or so...
Brilliant, Alexi here.
I just can't understand how people ever lived without smart watches. I mean they literally had to look at the sky and do some actual thinking to then conclude "it's the middle of summer, the sky is blue, it's probably going to be a hot day", instead of having a little band on their wrist tell them the temperature, air pressure and humidity.
How dare our smart devices not know that they can just use the local network to communicate instead of wasting time going to the internet and back for everything! Time for smart devices to act like it!
wait a minute i'm setting my spy camera watch, with the manual instructions only available in japanese.
This video really shows the insanity of our time. Brilliant!
You would think people would start to develop an issue with everything being called smart except themselves. Yet the technology does have a fair point.
The American adaptation “Spicy Mike” had a lacklustre first season but then really came into its own
i'll bet i'm not the only one who doesn't own a single spy, sorry, smart device?
You are posting on RUclips. So you are using a connected device. You are still being tracked. VPN or not.
“Am I Bothered!”
In the meantime, I got smarter in my later 40s and decided to switch my old laptop from like 15 years ago on Linux and even replace a broken hinge, by myself. Never in my dreams I thought I would do such things with computers. Smart appliances? Hell no. Even showing a middle finger to Microsoft and its AI and recall. My memory is great still, thankyouverymuch!
I love Michael in all guises.
But.. I'm not gone on these clips
When I grew up, smart meant 'well dressed'.