More than a century ago, Hollywood legend Buster Keaton directed and starred in The Electric House, a silent film in which a home abundant with rewired electrical gadgets causes chaos for its visitors. But what was a short comedy of yesterday has become a prescient depiction of a contemporary problem: smart appliances that aren’t acting smart.
Samsung customers flooded an online community with dozens of comments this week about issues they’ve experienced with certain models of their not-so-smart AI-powered smart refrigerators.