Volume 16, Issue 2 — January 25, 2024

January 25, 2024 | Volume: 16 | Issue: 2

Hi everyone! We’re getting ready for ISE 2024! (In fact, some of us are on the way RIGHT NOW! And we’re so excited. If you are not attending ISE this year, you can always keep up with us and our coverage by visiting ravepubs.com/ise. (Trust there will be a lot! My personal goal this year is 2,000 product videos.) Also, I hope you enjoy some of our preshow coverage below. Don’t forget to check out Scott Tiner’s latest column, in which he writes his thoughts about AI — a year after he wrote about it the first time. He was bullish about how he thought it would transform our industry. And he’s still excited about the possibilities! But he’s just less bullish now. Read more here. Have a great rest of the week, and I hope I’ll see some of you in Barcelona!

— Steph Beckett

COLUMNS

+ AI: A Year Later [Scott Tiner]

In late 2022, ChatGPT was released and the expectations were sky high. The technology was amazing. You could ask it to write a paper on Shakespeare in the language of a pirate and ten seconds later it pops out. You could ask it to program a Crestron control system with an Epson projector, and again, 10 seconds later you have a program. I was very bullish on what AI would provide us, and while I still am, I have a more nuanced understanding of the technology after a year of using it and learning about it.

+ The Humanity of Technology [Mark Coxon]

Experiences are subjective, and that makes people nervous. How do you deliver an objective result against the subjective measure of experience? I understand the point of view, but I believe it is flawed at it’s very core, and I’ll tell you why.