Ask HN: What consumer tech do you predict will be the next "big thing"?

#1

Post by iwant2endmyself » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 3:55 PM UTC

Consumer tech like ChatGPT, 3D games, Internet, iPhone, app stores, social media apps and many more have made major changes to how mankind interacts and functions.

What do you predict is going to have the same enormous disruptive (and revolutionary) impact on us?

Re: Ask HN: What consumer tech do you predict will be the next "big thing"?

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Post by mtmail » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 3:58 PM UTC

Related: "Ask HN: What is the "next big thing" after "AI" hype subsides?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37807697

Re: Ask HN: What consumer tech do you predict will be the next "big thing"?

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Post by DevX101 » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 4:17 PM UTC

Being able to put powerful AI models on an offline device opens up a lot of new computing interfaces. Meta smart glasses, Humane AI pin as examples. I don't know if these specific devices will win but I think in the next few years a device like this will have an "iPhone" moment as Apple did in 2007.

Re: Ask HN: What consumer tech do you predict will be the next "big thing"?

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Post by iwant2endmyself » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 6:55 PM UTC

DevX101 wrote: post #3

Being able to put powerful AI models on an offline device opens up a lot of new computing interfaces. Meta smart glasses, Humane AI pin as examples. I don't know if these specific devices will win but I think in the next few years a device like this will have an "iPhone" moment as Apple did in 2007.

Is that really possible? Can hardware ever be that powerful in such a small size to run AI while also being profitable to the company?

Also, what do you think would be the usecases of this AI on the edge that we already don't have? and what kind of interfaces would open up?

Re: Ask HN: What consumer tech do you predict will be the next "big thing"?

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Post by DevX101 » Tue, Dec 05, 2023, 2:03 PM UTC

iwant2endmyself wrote: post #4

DevX101 wrote: post #3

Being able to put powerful AI models on an offline device opens up a lot of new computing interfaces. Meta smart glasses, Humane AI pin as examples. I don't know if these specific devices will win but I think in the next few years a device like this will have an "iPhone" moment as Apple did in 2007.

Is that really possible? Can hardware ever be that powerful in such a small size to run AI while also being profitable to the company? Also, what do you think would be the usecases of this AI on the edge that we already don't have? and what kind of interfaces would open up?

Device only needs to do inference which is much less resource intensive and chips designed for training. Macbook M-chips a great for inference and don't use much power. Big use cases here is around a device processing realtime vision, audio.