Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 1 day ago'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbellsapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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Artificial intelligence took center stage at this year’s CES gadget show, but not always for the right reasons.
minus-squareLka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day 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·edit-220 hours 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-up4·1 day agoBut AI is the future! If you don’t have AI in your product, you’re behind competition!
minus-squareLka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoInvestors clearly live in a different world.
minus-squareHamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·23 hours 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-up1·20 hours 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.