Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 4 days ago'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbellsapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up1139arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.cafuck_ai@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1135arrow-down1external-link'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbellsapnews.comBlaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square29linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.cafuck_ai@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
Artificial intelligence took center stage at this year’s CES gadget show, but not always for the right reasons.
minus-squareLka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 days agoI don’t understand how these investors think this shit is worth anything when consumers clearly don’t want it.
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoBecause they think their product will finally be the one consumers care about, and they don’t want someone else to get there first.
minus-squareMark with a Z@suppo.filinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 days agoBut AI is the future! If you don’t have AI in your product, you’re behind competition!
minus-squareLka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoInvestors clearly live in a different world.
minus-squareHamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoIt’s a numbers game. If you invest in 500 AI startups, but one of them becomes the next Saudi Aramco, Microsoft, or Meta, it will easily cover all the losses.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoBecause they have so much money they are ok with a 90% fail rate.
I don’t understand how these investors think this shit is worth anything when consumers clearly don’t want it.
Because they think their product will finally be the one consumers care about, and they don’t want someone else to get there first.
But AI is the future! If you don’t have AI in your product, you’re behind competition!
Investors clearly live in a different world.
It’s all greed and fomo
It’s a numbers game. If you invest in 500 AI startups, but one of them becomes the next Saudi Aramco, Microsoft, or Meta, it will easily cover all the losses.
Because they have so much money they are ok with a 90% fail rate.
It’s a risky investment.