Samsung Is Putting Google Gemini AI Into Your Refrigerator, Whether You Need It or Not (nerds.xyz)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/12/22/120248/samsung-is-putting-google-gemini-ai-into-your-refrigerator-whether-you-need-it-or-not
- Source link: https://nerds.xyz/2025/12/samsung-google-gemini-ai-refrigerator/
> Samsung is bringing Google Gemini directly into the kitchen, [2]starting with a refrigerator that can see what you eat . At CES 2026, the company plans to show off a new Bespoke AI Refrigerator that uses a built in camera system paired with Gemini to automatically recognize food items, including leftovers stored in unlabeled containers. The idea is to keep an always up to date inventory without manual input, track what is added or removed, and surface suggestions based on what is actually inside the fridge. It is the first time Google's Gemini AI is being integrated into a refrigerator, pushing generative AI well beyond phones and laptops.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~BrianFagioli
[2] https://nerds.xyz/2025/12/samsung-google-gemini-ai-refrigerator/
GenAI isn't the problem or the culprit here. (Score:2)
Smart devices have been spying on you for years now. Don't buy a fridge that spies on you.
Re: GenAI isn't the problem or the culprit here. (Score:3)
Im going to put my tv, fridge, roomba, and computer in the garage with the car and let them spy on each other.
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> Im going to put my tv, fridge, roomba, and computer in the garage with the car and let them spy on each other.
The roomba will win. It'll have the most mobility in a confined space.
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> Smart devices have been spying on you for years now. Don't buy a fridge that spies on you.
I've had my 1990's GE side by side forever and have no plan to replace it. 12 years ago a part went out. It was easily replaced and has been running great since. No one needs a fridge to tell them what they ate or what they need to buy.
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Don't buy new appliances. Get used ones that have a history of being proven reliable at places like Habitat for Humanity. I bought my washer and dryer used for $50 each from a former roommate. They were made in the 90s and still work like new. My mom's stove is from the late 40s or early 50s and still works. We had a refrigerator from the same era while I was growing up. It never required a repair. The only reason my mother later got rid of it was that the insulation around the refrigerator door had holes i
Re: If it requires a network connection (Score:2)
Why do engineers know this but if the boss tells them to do it anyway they meekly comply? What if engineers refused to cooperate with bad engineering orders?
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Job Market.
Wont buy it (Score:2)
There is no way I will ever connect an appliance like this to the internet.
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I Have a GE profile gas stove there no way to set the time on it with out an NTP server. yeap the clock needs and NTP server to tell time and it wont claim to do timer count down with out an internet NTP server. guess what once you connect to it wants and register it never needs it again.
Nuh-uh (Score:2)
I have never had a Samsung appliance... now I will never have a Samsung appliance.
Fridges... it's always fridges (Score:2)
What is it with fridge-makers that they feel that every new technology must somehow be shoe-horned in to fridges?
When I think of a fridge, it's a cool and cold place to store food (and batteries!) and not a place for technology.
Having worked on my out-of-warranty LG fridge recently, I was truly shocked in the shoddy, low-quality design and cheap parts being used. For a $1600 "normal" fridge.
I feel like this stuff is a distraction away from what a rip-off fridges really are.
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I suspect that the refrigerator market is like the mattress market. How are you going to market one big cold box over another, virtually identical, big cold box? What makes one different or better than another? You can have the freezer on top, or side by side. They all have an ice maker. Almost all have an ice and water dispenser. They all have adjustable shelves, shelves in the door, etc. So, why buy a Samsung over a Maytag? Marketing had better come up with something, or their department will be o
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Because it is a mature product. You have to sell your brand on something..
Everything else like ice on the door etc has been cloned. You can't really sell on quality. It is to difficult to educate consumers. They are standing there in Lowes' looking at 2 generally identical 22 sq ft units but one costs $300 more. Which one are they leaving with?
In the old days of appliance stores, where you would generally interact with a sales person they might explain that well the INSERT-BRAND has 25% lower failure rat
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So this just reinforces my belief that the destruction of capitalism is going to be the fact that it doesn't work (apparently) unless every company can grow forever.
That's okay, I don't need a fancy fridge. (Score:2)
And won't buy one.
I'm sure that people who value gadgetry for gadgetry's sake will, and they will love them. That's fine with me, it's their money.
I bought a house with Samsung appliances (Score:2)
But not connecting them to the Internet was simple. Samsung even made the decision for me, because their app doesn't work on Pixel devices.
On the other hand the LG washer and dryer that I bought don't even have the option to connect to the Internet.
The wine version seems reasonable. (Score:2)
The kind of guy that buys a wine fridge is going to obsess about things like what he is out of and which wine pairs best with the current meal.
Honestly, most people that buy a wine anything like wine but do not know a huge amount about it. So the AI seems like a perfect fit.
But I know of no person that wants this for the normal fridge. That seems like an answer looking for a question.
Nope (Score:2)
When will they stop all this AI nonsense. I must be getting old.
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when there is no competeive advantage any more. I do not see this taking long. The models are what matters what i see happing is the AI chips that coming will be able to just a load a prebuilt model and go. The AI chip companies will start traing there own models to do spefic thing.
A good example is FedEX in the 80s they before faxes they build out a sytem to scan a document transmit and they reprint and deliver on the other end. Before they got it don faxes rulled the world. This is the future i see for AI
I hope they trained it well (Score:4, Insightful)
They're going to have a hard time getting Gemini to not explain to consumers why their ice maker isn't working or any of the other widespread Samsung refrigerator problems of the last 15 years.
On the other hand, at least it's not Bixby.
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I've had a Samsung fridge for almost 12 years now and haven't had a lot of trouble. The drawers aren't very well made. One cracked and they want way too much for a replacement. A drain on the freezer got clogged, preventing it from defrosting correctly. It wasn't hard to fix once we figured out what happened.
Oh, and it's a little too easy for little kids to accidentally put it into Store Demo mode, which turns off the compressor.
We got a great deal on it when we bought our house. Floor model at B
Re: I hope they trained it well (Score:2)
That's lucky. There's a whole Facebook group dedicated to getting repairs and refunds for the models with the major defects. And even after the defect was identified, they continued to sell without any changes.