1217.经济学人-So long iPhone. Generative AI needs a new device-4

This is all rather refreshing.

Just as the year-long excitement over “foundational” models and other mind-boggling bits of AI infrastructure has begun to fade, along comes the chance that gen AI, to use the industry shorthand, will unleash an onslaught of new consumer technology.

Tech pundits are debating the best “form factor” for the chatbot era.

Ben Thompson of Stratechery, a blog and podcast, puts it in epochal terms: “There is a hardware breakthrough waiting to happen just like the internet created the conditions for the smartphone breakthrough to happen.”

The ability to talk and listen to chatbots makes Meta’s bet on ar glasses and vr headsets “drastically more compelling”, he writes.

这是《经济学人》2023年10月刊的一篇文章'So long iPhone. Generative AI needs a new device'第6段。

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这一切都令人耳目一新。

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就在长达一年的对“基础”模型和其他令人难以置信的人工智能基础设施的兴奋开始消退之际，生成式人工智能（用行业速记法来说）将释放新消费技术冲击的机会也随之而来。

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技术专家正在争论聊天机器人时代的最佳“外形”。

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博客兼播客 Stratechery 的 Ben Thompson 用划时代的术语说道：“硬件突破正在等待发生，就像互联网为智能手机突破创造了条件一样。

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他写道，与聊天机器人交谈和聆听的能力使得 Meta 对 AR 眼镜和 VR 耳机的押注“更加引人注目”。