[aaron695]

> Lights that dim when the movie starts.

How does it know you want the lights dimmed? What if someone in the room is reading? This would be pretty high level AI.

>A front door that unlocks when you approach.

It has to know if you'll enter the house. What if you don't?

It could lock it again, but then what if someone else left the house assuming it was unlocked. Now they could be locked out.

These are hard problems to solve and more AI related.

[chillingeffect]

Exactly. One of the best things Joi Ito has done at the MIT Media Lab has been to shift the culture from "demo or die" to "deploy or die," because in that demo moment we are susceptible to the narrow and novel circumstances of the idea as performance.