Every Device Will Be an AI Device
The slow (and fast) adoption will eventually sit in everyone's pocket.
Morning y’all!
This week should be a busy one for me but after my first week at my new job as a product engineer I’m building new habits and some muscle memory on how my schedule should optimally operate.
I’ve been told that new habits take anywhere from 21 days (popular opinion) to a few months, with new research suggesting that the average time is about 66 days. I think more than 2 months seems too long but everyone is different. I think a lot of this depends on one’s personality, intrinsic motivation — being a huge factor — and the environment in which you find yourself.
❓ — What was the last, new habit you formed? Drop it in the comments!
Beyond my own needs I’ve been thinking about the adoption of artificial intelligence in in the larger ecosystem that I live and work and in the general population at large. I’ve been particularly thinking about technologies that were once fringe and that eventually became so normal that no one thinks about them. For instance:
The adoption of the telephone.
The adoption of the internet.
The adoption of computers, especially notebook computing.
The adoption of mobile (and the iPhone).
The adoption of social media.
The adoption of search (e.g. Google).
The adoption of cloud technology (in business).
These things, if you recall, were once just fascinations but now have become so regular in our use that you rarely, if ever, think about life before. Present technologies that are somewhere on the adoption curve are blockchain / cryptocurrencies and, of course, (generative) AI which is in its beginning stages of infancy.
And since I live at the very edge of the frontier I have a much bigger sense of what’s coming down the pipe and without constant reminding I can easily believe that the adoption is more broad than it actually is. But it’s coming, for all of us.
This is especially true if you use an Apple iPhone.
Dag Kittlaus, the founder and CEO of Siri which was acquired by Apple has shared publicly that things are coming down the pipe that will directly integrate AI into the device itself:
Siri will do some cool new things in 2024. Then accelerate and become a real force in the AI arena. Apple is uniquely positioned to enable new, useful and unexpected LLM use cases.
Apple has also been publishing research papers and talking about their own “Apple GPT” which will build large language models and internal chatbots. Even their new MacBook Pro (and recently refreshed MacBook Air) will have the M3 chip which is billed at being the “best consumer notebook for AI”.
Even though no winner in this massive arms race has been declared it’s very clear that everyone is building tools and apps for current technological implementations — it is not crazy to think that in a few years time, every iPhone will have AI baked in natively and, eventually, you won’t even think twice about its novelty.
New habits will be formed and behavior that were once foreign will feel as natural as using Google. And if your phone is AI-enabled, expect not just your notebook computer but also your fridge, your car, and even your toothbrush.
And you won’t even realize it happened.
It’s coming. Are you ready? Are you preparing yourself? Maybe you won’t have to. But, as I’ve shared previously, I think this technology is going to impact everyone’s career and professional work. Sam Altman, of OpenAI, recently said this:
Our work and lives are changing and I’m excited to see it all play out.
Have a great week folks!
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— Summer