Former One Show presenter said his coffee machine drives him potty and his new ’smart’ oven kept ‘nagging him’.
TV’s Adrian Chiles says his ‘smart’ kitchen appliances are ganging up on him and fears it’s the first step towards the robot apocalypse.
The 59-year-old former One Show and Match of the Day 2 presenter, said he recently bought a new coffee machine, which he says drives him potty.
He also said his new ’smart’ oven kept ‘nagging him’.
The dad-of-two, speaking this week said he wanted to ‘take a sledgehammer’ to his coffee machine.
Speaking previously, Adrian said he was worried that robots would take over the world and ‘rip humans limb from limb’. He said that machines were ‘getting smarter’ and that humans were ‘getting more stupid’.
The broadcaster said: “The fear of artificially intelligent beings turning on us – be it by taking all our jobs off us, or tearing us limb from limb, or both – is widely held.
“I think it will happen.”
Speaking about his new coffee machine, he said: “I want to take a sledgehammer to my new coffee machine.
“I can’t bear the way it addresses me, or the way it refers to itself.”
He said he old coffee machine was simple, stating ‘empty grounds’ or ‘fill tank’, but his new one had a bigger screen and pictures of the various cup sizes – and wouldn’t shut up.
He said: “What I really can’t bear is the banter. It doesn’t actually speak to me, but the cheery little messages on the screen grind my gears like nobody’s business.”
Speaking about his ‘smart’ oven, he said: “I bought an oven. I wish I hadn’t.
“All I wanted was an oven that gets hot, to a temperature of my choosing, until the cooking is done, at which point I can switch it off. That’s it.
“My new oven actually has no knob at all – it has a touchscreen. “We got off to a very bad start…I switched it on and was invited to choose what type of heating I would like. “Option one was ‘hot air’…a joke, surely?” He said he was prompted by the oven to ‘connect to broadband’ repeatedly, and eventually hooked it up to his WiFi to ‘stop it nagging’.
The broadcaster, however, said he instantly regretted making his oven ‘smart’ after it started bombarding him with text messages and alerts. He said: “Every other day it demanded to be connected to my broadband. Then it got more insistent, even angry, threatening – in so many words – to down tools if the connection wasn’t made. “In a world in which I can’t get anyone to communicate with me – my bank, my broadband provider, my doctor, my daughters – I can’t get an oven I don’t even like to give me a minute’s peace.”