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ARTICLE · 14 FEBRUARY 2024

CES 2024: We Still Haven't Found What We're Looking For

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Everyone wants to know when and how artificial intelligence will make a big difference in our lives.

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Jeremy Lehman
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Giuseppe Gasparro
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Shea Burns
Shea Burns
Himanshu Khandelwal
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Everyone wants to know when and how artificial intelligence will make a big difference in our lives. This interest was apparent at the busiest exhibits at CES (formerly Consumer Electronics Show), where crowds stood on tiptoe to watch humanoid robots. However, the robots only stacked boxes or showed they could walk when shoved. Like the robots, new products showcased at CES largely showed individual steps forward but no coherent direction.

Are we reaching peak AI hype? Conversations indicated some AI fatigue, and a realization that simply slapping "AI" on the arm of an autonomous excavator doesn't make it smarter. But reaching peak hype might be a natural growing pain just before practical business cases become real.

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