Every decade or so, a new kind of device enters our lives, from the personal computer in the 1980s to the smartphone in the 2000s, and later in the 2010s, came the smart companions, like the smartwatch and smart speaker. Will the 2020s become the decade of AI hardware?
In 2023, tech companies raced to add Generative AI capabilities — the ability for machines to conjure up or “generate” content like humans — to their software. But the goal behind this AI gold rush has not been just to teach our computers to write our emails for us, tell us jokes, or fix our photos, it’s to accomplish a concept tech luminaries have been preaching for ages called Artificial General Intelligence or AGI, where a virtual being could understand the world and think as well as us.
