Artificial StupidIntelligence and Airport Sinks

I want an explicit, atomic operation: Turn On Sink. I want the inverse operation: Turn Off Sink. I explicitly do not want the sink to try its best to guess whether I’m washing my hands or not. These guesses frequently turn out to be wrong. The act of washing one’s hands involves movement, which often turns off the sink. Little kids struggle with the angle, depending on the sensor. This is a bad design. The sink shouldn’t be guessing what we want. We should tell it.

I am a mom. My kids do in fact struggle to find the angle for the sink motion detector. But also I wouldn't really put this as a major problem? They are also confused by the sinks where you tap once to turn them on and they turn themselves off. Struggling with UIs is just a kid thing in general. I watched my kid struggle with getting too much water from the water fountain last week and the water bounced off his face and onto the floor. It happens. Being a kid isn't very dignified. The alternative of needing to turn the sink off is undesirable in public places because you don't want the failure mode of someone leaving the sink on overnight. I think the bigger issue from a mom point of view is that kids are short are there's not always a step for them to be able to stand on to reach the sink.

Artificial StupidIntelligence

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