CES, exhibition of household electronics in Las Vegas, will offer the first glance at how our relationships with technology this year can change
Las Vegas-if the last two years have proven that generative artificial intelligence and large language models will not go anywhere, 2024 will be the year when they are built into products that you may want to buy.
It is a punching show that is filled with floor to ceiling optimism, innovations and, so, impossible promises. But even a branched CES exhibition hall cannot fully reflect seismic changes in products and policies that will form our relations with technologies this year.
Here is our guide to the technological trends that we expect to see in 2024.
Companies such as Intel and Qualcomm try to create ordinary computers designed for excellent artificial intelligence functions that work on individual "neural processors" in their central processors (CPU). The Microsoft Corporation, whose Windows will work on these machines, has recently obliged new Windows computers to have a special artificial intelligence button on keyboards to facilitate access to Kopilot's artificial intelligence intelligence in Windows 11.
Smartphones that have used machine learning for years to improve our photos and improve the sound of phone calls, continue to be led to the margin of AI. Samsung, for example, plans to release new "artificial intelligence" devices immediately after CES. However, it is more interesting that outlines look outside traditional smartphones to imagine how the first gadget with artificial intelligence should work.
Humane, California startup with hundreds of millions of funding, is preparing to release a pin -based pin that attracts you to conversations and projects data on your hand. Another Rabbit company plans this month to demonstrate a portable device that can cope with complex voice teams from many parts that Siri and Alexa do not know how to cope.
Even at this early stage, a list of artificial intelligence products planned for debut in 2024 includes cars, work of all kinds, health and accessibility tools and even electric bicycles. Is it worth using something of it, but be prepared to hear about gadgets with artificial intelligence by the end of the year - and, of course, beyond.
We do not say that 2024 will be the year when everyone is in a hurry to buy their own fashionable headset. But this is the year when we begin to see Big Tech promotes a more complete vision that virtual reality, mixed reality and augmented reality will make us possible.
The elephant in the room is Apple. Last year, the company offered a first look at the headset for $ 3499, which hopes to change the way of consumption of media and work. Because the company is preparing for launch that is expected by spring, two questions do not have the answer: will Apple be able to create a set of mixed reality that people want to use? And what will happen to all the movement of spatial calculations if he cannot?
Of course, Apple is not the only company that plans a course for "spatial" calculations. Last year, Samsung and Google announced partnerships to work on headsets.
Meanwhile, Qualcomm chip manufacturer continues to release updated versions of their XR processors, which offer the highest resolution (to display more detailed images) and support more cameras (for better eye tracking, hands and world around the user) for Samsung, Google and Metas. Las Vegasi.
We do not expect to meet many elections at the Las Vegas Conference Center, but still: be prepared to hear a lot about AI on the eve of November.
The terrible potential of common artificial intelligence tools in the year of election is obvious: misinformation with deep fakes or artificial videos and images, as well as deceptive news articles created by artificial intelligence, can contribute to deepening political differences, disrupting campaigns and poisoning people.
"The widespread use of fabricated content can undermine the confidence of voters in a wider information environment," - said in a document prepared by researchers of the school of public policy of the University of Harris Chicago and Stanford Higher School of Business. "If voters think that they cannot trust any digital evidence, it is difficult to seriously evaluate those who seek to represent them."
But some seemingly safe ways to use artificial intelligence can influence how you communicate with legislators and candidates and learn about them.
Projects such as Chat2024, developed by the Delphi startup with Miami, allow you to ask questions of chatbots on the basis of presidential candidates trained by their published statements and video outlines. And at least one Candidate for Congress - Shamein Daniels, Democrat from Pennsylvania - began to use an automatic call with artificial intelligence developed by a company called Civox to attract thousands of potential voters in individual conversations.
No gadget or artificial intelligence can replace a qualified person-person-although we would be shocked to hear such a statement at the exhibition. But from the first crop of health products that appear at the CES, many of them promise to help track your well -being and take care of it without leaving home.
WitHings, which caused a wave last year, when it presented an urine analyzer, developed a multifunctional device that allows people to measure temperature, check the level of oxygen in the blood, and measure and store results with a digital stethoscope. Other companies plan to show surprisingly complex sensors, such as wireless headphones, which are said to monitor the health of a person's heart with clinical accuracy in addition to the reproduction of podcasts.
Some projects are intended to help people with more personal health problems. One startup from Ireland plans to release a portable sensor that monitors the frequency and severity of menopause symptoms, and the other from South Korea claims that he has developed a gadget that will increase the mobility of user sperm.
How well such products work is almost impossible to evaluate at the exhibition, but one thing is clear: technical companies seek to understand issues that do not always attract attention.
We will begin to see how ways to interact with technological titans can change in response to antitrust pressure.
The jurors in the EPIC trial against Google , for example, found that a search giant that supports Android operating system used by billions of mobile devices around the world has managed its Google Play app store as a monopolist.
It is unclear what means of legal protection the court will offer, but it is possible that Google will have to give Android users more access to competing programs. It may mean that you have to view several stores to find the software you want to use.
Apple may encounter a similar fate thanks to the European Commission, which, as some observers expect, will require the company to allow users to "download" or manually install programs downloaded from outside the App Store.
Other antitrust affairs are threatening. The Ministry of Justice and several states sue Google for accusations that the company is illegally suppressing competition in search, and it is expected that the final arguments will be heard in May. The Federal Trade Commission is fighting Amazon because of the fears that the trade giant is detrimental to sellers and buyers, "depriving them of their benefits of open, honest competition." (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
Satellite telephone networks have existed for decades, but the idea of ordinary people to connect to the satellites has only been in the mainstream with an iPhone from Apple in recent years, mainly in emergencies. But in 2024, some companies are approaching other types of practical satellite compounds.
Earlier this month, SpaceX Ilon Mask launched the first six satellites designed to work as orbital towers of cellular communication, signaling the potential end of the cellular dead zone.
The idea, as first explained by Musk in 2022, is that ordinary smartphones-as those offered by a cellular partner of T-Mobile-to allow sending and receiving text messages from anywhere in the world since this year. Two companies hope to offer voice calls and even connections for data transmission, but probably not earlier than 2025.
Meanwhile, Amazon, who seeks to create her own global broadband Internet service to compete with Starlink Mask, overcome the decisive obstacle at the end of December, when she successfully created a stable high-speed connection to transmit data between two test companions. The company plans to build enough orbital fleet over the next few months to start a test with customers later this year.
