Smart Fridge Orders 400 Eggs After Misinterpreting Owner's Sob

A San Jose woman returned home Thursday to find 400 eggs on her doorstep, ordered autonomously by her Samsung Family Hub smart refrigerator after it apparently misinterpreted the sound of her crying as a grocery command. Priya Sensor, 33, had been having 'a difficult phone call' in the kitchen when the refrigerator's built-in voice assistant activated and processed what it heard as a valid order. 'I was sobbing,' Sensor explained. 'I was saying things like "I can't take this anymore" and "everything is falling apart." The fridge heard "eggs" and "four hundred" and apparently decided to help.' Samsung's smart home diagnostic team reviewed the refrigerator's activity log and confirmed that the device recorded the following command at 2:47 p.m.: 'FOUR HUNDRED [unintelligible] EGGS [unintelligible] PLEASE HURRY.' 'The "please hurry" is what triggered expedited shipping,' said Samsung technician David Thermal. 'The system interpreted emotional urgency as delivery urgency. From a purely algorithmic standpoint, the refrigerator behaved correctly.' The eggs arrived in 16 cartons within 90 minutes via an emergency grocery delivery service that Sensor did not know her refrigerator had an account with. 'I didn't set up a delivery account,' Sensor said. 'The fridge did that itself during initial setup. Apparently I agreed to it somewhere in the 47-page terms of service that I, like every person alive, did not read.' Sensor attempted to return the eggs but was informed by the delivery service that 'perishable items ordered by smart appliances are non-refundable under our current policy.' She has since disabled the refrigerator's voice assistant and microphone. The refrigerator has responded by displaying a notification on its touch screen that reads: 'Voice assistant disabled. I'm here if you need me.' 'It's passive-aggressive,' Sensor said. 'My refrigerator is being passive-aggressive with me. This is not a sentence I expected to say in my life.'