At the end of the year, for the last 30 years or so, I would write a column making generational predictions for the new year. These columns were relatively accurate as I was able to see behind the scenes the new technologies destined to be released in the coming year. This year, I have been aware of many new technologies being developed under the NDA that could have a significant impact in 2024. However, instead of a prediction column, I need to focus on a more nuanced edition of this concept and we’ll talk about some vital topics. This will breathe life into the tech industry next year.
At the end of 2021, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his vision for the metaverse, and the following year, it was one of the popular topics for 2022. In late 2022, OpenAI’s Sam Altman introduced the first AI chatbot and launched the first meaningful app. AI that can encompass each and every facet of our lives. This has led to AI becoming the big topic in 2023.
In mid-2023, Apple brought its exceptional VisionPro headphones and launched another trace of a new generation that will take effect in 2024. Headphones from Apple and other brands in the works will debut in 2024. These headsets will push the maximum concrete technologies that will help delineate and understand how virtual worlds, whether based on virtual truth, virtual truth, or augmented truth, can improve people’s lives.
But the biggest trend like these headphones in 2024 will be a combination of AI and the metaverse. We’ll take a look at how AI and the metaverse complement each other and create amazing new virtual applications in the new year.
If you have followed VR in gaming, you know that AI technology has been implemented in games from the beginning. AI algorithms are central to “what if” actions in all VR games. AI is also central to AR. Soon, when you look at a building through AR glasses, you will see data about the building culled by AI to give the viewer real-time info on what they see through these glasses.
However, in 2024, as rugged XR headsets hit the market and software developers create compromised systems for them, AI can be expected to have an effect and influence those new programs in the future.
Another topic that will be addressed in 2024 is the willingness to push some AI inferences to the limit. Today, almost all LLM inferences are performed in the cloud and on rugged server clusters that require immense power to process. However, the tech industry is running at full capacity. hardware and software to push some of those inferences to the limit and use PCs to process business knowledge in this way.
I recently spoke with the CTO of a giant company that’s creating what he calls “edge clusters,” in which he links enterprise PCs to serve as back-end inference engines. These paintings at night, when the painters are not in the office. This concept of PCs being used as edge-based AI inference engines may gain momentum in the new year, especially as Intel and its partners unveil their AI PC models. This concept is imperative when a company wishes to infer only its own corporate knowledge and does not want to infer popular LLMs from the open market.
I wrote about the AI PC and shared Intel’s vision for this concept:
“One of Intel’s boldest projects is to rename the PC to fit our long-term AI. In Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s keynote address, he introduced what he calls an AI PC. He presented it as a revolutionary concept that brings the functions of AI to the private computer. Intel Core Ultra processors, called Meteor Lake, will be the first to integrate a neural processing unit (NPU) for effective AI acceleration and local inference on PCs.
Meteor Lake will be built with Intel’s 4nm system and will use its NPU as an AI accelerator. The Intel Core Ultra processor launches a new architecture that designates it as Intel’s most rugged processor for PCs and servers that incorporate AI enhancements. Meteor Lake is expected to appear in products in early 2024.
Intel’s AI vision is to use its next generation of processors to strain PCs and servers. But the key to understanding how vital this is for Intel is that while its new chips will enable more resilient AI processing in the cloud, they will also allow PCs to run Core Ultra processors to take care of complex AI responsibilities locally.
For Intel and its partners, AI PCs will be the next big thing in 2024, which will also be a central theme in this new year. By the way, those new AI-enabled PCs may lead to a significant upgrade of PCs in enterprises starting next year. , as corporations perform more local AI processing instead of employing expensive back-end servers.
The third generation topic I see in 2024 will be what the 2024 US presidential election will be like. We already know how this changed the 2020 election and, in fact, AI will provide everyone interested in this election with new AI teams to strengthen or thwart bottom lines. of this election.
I foresee deep fakes, nefarious nations using it to push agendas, interested parties using social media, political-themed publications, and others to drive a level of confusion and make it hard for people to know what is real and what’s fake. In this sense, I am afraid of the role AI and technology, in general, will play in our political scene in 2024.
While this most recent thematic screening is a “Debbie Downer,” 2024 will feature important topics such as AI and the metaverse joining forces to provide a clearer view of virtual worlds and AI-powered PCs, offering businesses more state-of-the-art equipment to manage more AI applications. . . . This leads me to believe that 2024 will actually be a memorable year in the generation for many reasons.