Stealing the spotlight at CES 2024, AI emerges as the focal point of innovation.
In a recent CNET report titled "AI Takes Center Stage at CES 2024: ChatGPT's Impact," the article delves into the reasons behind the newfound dominance of this cutting-edge chatbot, explaining how it has rapidly captured the attention of the business and tech communities.
For starters, within just a week of its launch in 2022, there were already 1 million users and merely two months later 1 million had grown into an estimated 100 million. The app itself uses generative AI which takes a mass load of training data to incorporate information to make a text, image, and a slew of other things in a snap.
The Race To Be The "First"
In Samsung's CES keynote on Monday, this week, CEO and the head of the device experience team, J.H. Han, stated that "AI is reshaping industries beyond technologies and has the power to make lives easier and more inclusive for all" with praise and quick growth from things such as ChatGPT it's no wonder that so many tech giants are investing so much into AI in attempt to seemingly capture lighting in a bottle with these new AI integrated products. Consulting company, McKinsey, has made the bold prediction that generative AI could add a whopping $4.4 trillion in economic gain on an annual basis and thus boost global GDP.
Additionallly, Dipanjan Chatterjee a principal analyst at Forrester, states why so many companies are diving into the new market "You don't want to show up at the costume party in plain clothes, right? Everyone's going to be there saying AI. You're probably going to look like a fool if you don't". Even the trade group that hosts CES, the Consumer Technology Association believes that up to 230 million smartphones and PCs arriving in the US will be utilizing generative AI in some shape or function.
The reason is simple everyone wants to be "the first" Just like how Apple changed the cellphone market with the iPhone it would seem that history is repeating itself. In this case, it seems that AI seems to be a new form of evolution for "Smart" technology with Volkswagen's new line of cars integrating ChatGPT with their voice assistant Ida or with LG's new home bot that uses facial recognition and AI to better understand the customer. Thus, with this in mind, it is no longer a question of whether AI will be sticking around with us but rather how will AI be used in the foreseeable future and what that means for us.
