AI Era Disrupts Gadgets

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All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets

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The onrushing AI era was supposed to create boom times for great gadgets.

We were promised multimodal, natural language, AI-powered everything.

We got nothing of the sort.

Tech companies large and small have been betting on virtual assistants for more than a decade .

Tech industry allowed itself to be so distracted by shiny language models that it basically stopped trying to make otherwise good gadgets.

Amazon hasn’t released a meaningfully new Echo device since September 2023 .

There are already lots of ways AI can make products more useful and interesting.

The hottest thing in startups has been “put a microphone on a lanyard, record your whole life, and use AI to do something with it’s not the feature itself.

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