Hi!
So last week in tech media, the hottest topic seems to be the New York Times case against OpenAI for copyright infringements. It was already a thing last week, but it remains the talk of (part of) the town and what it might unlock. AI critic scholar Gary Marcus thinks the big parties will play the ‘endangering innovation’ card. In a dramatic manner, “Save ChatGPT”. It is part of maturing technology to rewrite boundaries, and as I mentioned last week with the breaking of the news: ‘l’histoire se répète’. Who’s protecting who?
I am not going into that topic anymore; it is how new realities are settled in a new balance between stakeholders.
Triggered thoughts
So what triggered some thinking? Are new things starting to happen now? New as in objects with intelligence, moving away from AI as ‘just’ a conversational language model. Is it indeed happening or is that just the CES vibe? New things are not a new keyboard for an iPhone, but how Smart Things is connecting to the car, and LG is introducing a new robot in the household. Multimodal AI. LLMs are a way for things to have conversations with us. I might have shared the Vektor example; someone added ChatGPT to that cute little robot.
Or: the humanoid robot act indicates a rise in interest. And hor robots as appliances.
How will the relationship between products and humans play out with Apple AI? Will it try to enhance the ‘super app’ with holistic knowledge, or will it work the other way, using AI to enhance the physical experience? Edge AI on a chip will never be an Apple product but might be triggered by a serious step up in the physical AI game.
Will these devices become your storage of your personal AI, or is it more like the “tower of Gal”.
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In the meantime, we are preparing for the little exhibition on Cities of Things LAB010, on 10 January – 10 years of Afrikaander Wijkcooperatie. Or I might meet you at the CI New Year drinks.
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