2024: Year of the AI device
4th January 2024
Welcome to AI Collision 💥,
In today’s collision between AI and our world:
Me, Audi and no driver
Pixelated rabbits
Bea Arthur’s side hustle
If that’s enough to get the AI driving, read on…
AI Collision 💥 everything was “smart” now everything IS smart
Four years ago was the last time I ventured over to Las Vegas for the CES trade show.
Back then you could still call it the “consumer electronics show” but now they just like to call it CES.
It is the world’s largest consumer electronics event that is closed off to the general public and only open to industry participants.
But I see why they don’t like the term “consumer electronics” – it makes the whole thing sound like it’s just about gadgets and gizmos.
The reality is it’s all about tech. But what makes it so good, and why I make the effort to apply and go to it every couple of years or so, is that it’s the first look at the tech of tomorrow.
It typically has on display the tech that will hit the market in two, three, five years’ time.
Let me give you some examples of what I mean…
It was January 2020 when I was at CES last. Literally a couple months before the world went into lockdown.
That’s also the reason why I haven’t been back since.
But back then the tech on display was a glimpse into the near future. And that near future is today.
In 2020 CES was littered with tech like AI and quantum computing. Most of the AI was part of autonomous systems and most of the quantum computing was from IBM.
But it was still there, and still a prominent part of what you could see and learn about.
So much so that I took a ride in a fully autonomous Audi. Check it out below!
You can see “Audi AI” prominently on the outside of the car.
As for the quantum computing, well it doesn’t look much like a “computer” that you’re used to, but it is very much what a quantum computer looks like.
Remember, this was four years ago.
It’s a big part of why I started recommending AI and quantum computing stocks to my premium readers in the subsequent years after.
It’s events like this that help you to keep one step ahead of the big tech trends and opportunities so that investors can not just learn about it all, but invest in it all as well.
Being a step ahead is also why I sent you a special briefing on 22 December last year. Because I wanted to make sure you were one step ahead of what’s coming in the bitcoin mining and AI/HPC investment world too.
If you missed that briefing by any chance (it was pretty close to Xmas after all) then you should check out the briefing here, and then make sure to head to my in-depth video with Kit Winder explaining more about it all here.
It’s also why I’m pumped about next week too.
There’s already a feeling that CES is going to be heavily dominated by AI – in fact I know it’s going to be heavily dominated by AI.
The conference sessions are littered with industry insiders and experts presenting and talking about AI – of which I shall get to as many as I can.
But there will be hardware galore that is either “AI enabled” or with AI “built in” to its functionality.
I can say this because leading into the event, I get a splattering of pre-show emails from exhibitors and participants wanting to pitch their tech and arrange meetings for their products.
Most I ignore as they’re not really what I look for or they’re often companies that aren’t publicly listed. But there are always a few that you’ve never heard of, often trading on the US markets that are bringing new tech to market.
Always high risk, typically small, but at least pushing the boundaries of tech.
Of course the big players are always there too – all the big car makers, the big tech giants like Nvidia, AMD, Sony, Amazon, Microsoft and the likes – but I’m looking for the AI and quantum computing of 2020. I want to see what the big things for 2027 and 2028 will be. That’s my focus for the week at least.
With that all said, short term I think one thing is clear.
Remember when consumer devices became “smart”? In the sense that by connecting to the internet they were “smart” enabled, they could deliver data and information real time.
That’s why now you can buy a fridge with a tablet inbuilt and manage your family life right before you grab a coldie from the fridge door.
Well the “smart” revolution of consumer devices is now actually getting “smart” – as in real intelligence, as in artificial intelligence.
And that I think will be the big theme of 2024.
No longer will AI just be an application or webpage you can use, we’ll start to see “AI-enabled” consumer devices from all the major tech players.
In a few weeks Samsung will release its next range of smartphones – expect those to be dominated by AI tech. Expect that trend to be a thing in 2024.
And expect the companies that do it well, maybe even some of the big consumer companies, to see a handy bump to their stock price while they’re at it.
Make sure you tune in next week for my live coverage from CES. I’ll have loads of video, images and hopefully some insight as to which of the big tech companies is going to do AI best in 2024.
AI gone wild 🤪
When I watch the video below there’s a few things it makes me hope for.
That this AI device is unreal and it really does change the game for devices.
The device design is exactly as you see it, just a weird, pixelated thing. Wouldn’t that be cool.
So I guess you should see what I mean…
They call it the r1 and right now we’ve got no idea what it really is, does, looks like or can do.
That’s OK, the teaser vid is enough to get us excited.
The good news is that according to a press release,
the r1 device and rabbit OS will be officially unveiled on 9 January 2024 in an online launch event on the sidelines of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2024) in Las Vegas.
Great! You can bet I’ll be trying my best to track it down (there’s millions of square footage of exhibitor space) and see if I can get you the lowdown on what this pixelated thing is.
Remember, 2024, year of the AI hardware, the devices… the fridge that can talk back to you?
Boomers & Busters 💰
AI and AI-related stocks moving and shaking up the markets this week. (All performance data below over the rolling week).
Boom 📈
Wearable Devices (NASDAQ:WLDS) up 25%
WISeKey International (NASDAQ:WKEY) up 14%
BigBear.ai (NASDAQ:BBAI) up 1%
Bust 📉
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) down 1%
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) down 3%
Symbotic (NASDAQ:SYM) down 11%
From the hive mind 🧠
The list of things AI can help with is endless. Even something as boring (but important) as medical billing.
It’s easy to think of the bad things AI can do, but we also need to look at the good things too. Like helping improve traffic and emissions – which is a big part of the autonomous car revolution.
This headline alone makes the article worth the read. Bet this is the first time you’ve seen “botshit” used in a headline. It is for me at least.
Artificial Pollteligence 🗳️
Time to get the polls cranking again…
Kicking off 2024,
Weirdest AI image of the day
Bea Arthur, Seal Team 6 (WonderAI) – r/Weirddallee
ChatGPT’s random quote of the day
“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded.”
– Stephen Hawking
Thanks for reading see you next week, and don’t forget to leave comments and questions below,
Sam Volkering
Editor-in-Chief
AI Collision
Looking forward to what you show us from the CES Sam, thanks.. Happy New Year!