Whether someone will implement chatbots and agents for good or in new and exciting ways is harder to say. While the addition of AI might be enough to get the investment needed to build the device, it might not be enough to get people to buy the thing. Chatbots and AI agents have not yet provided enough use cases to justify people posting these shirts en masse. We are also at the point of AI saturation where technology is in everything. So what makes your AI earbuds special? if AI is the differentiator, then what happens if everyone has it?” Sag said. “Now it’s table stakes.” Wearables and devices built specifically to provide some AI-powered services may seem like the next logical step. in the evolution of AI, but until now, the utility obtained from them does not create boundaries. “The fact is that we do not need special hardware for the type of features or use cases that are exhibited,” Ubrani said. “Your phone can do most of these things .” Within a year, AI has become its own selling point in a rather strong vanilla form. Making Dent There are AI hardware success stories, of course, such as the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which have done well by incorporating AI as one of the many features in the device that offers a use case. -taking pictures, listening to music-well beyond what AI can do on its own. (This will definitely be a year filled with smart glasses, and CES is bound to be brimming with them as well.) resources to put into incorporating AI into its services. Smaller manufacturers may not have the financial stamina to compete, but they feel the pressure to play in the game. way to stand out from the big devices and many other AI gadgets in the mix. Privacy, for example. Meta may have the most successful smart glasses out there today, but the company’s platform is a data vacuum that sucks up almost any information about its users that it can. Sag points to competitors like Malah Realities or Looktech.AI, which make smart glasses that allow users to control privacy settings and not send all data back to the mothership. He said such startups could use a more secure approach to differentiate their products, offering users an alternative to big data mining platforms. for them. Sag said. “A lot of AI shouldn’t drive sales, because it doesn’t change people’s lives.”
