The Future of AI Hardware - Where It's Going in 2027

So AI is one of the most transformative technologies of all time, and we see all this talk about this exponential progress, AGI, super intelligence. And just in the past two weeks at the time when I'm recording this video, there's been something like a model launch a day that's frontier on either cost or performance. But all of this has happened in the digital world, and AI just hasn't made that jump into physical products that you and I, as a consumer, use every day in our lives. Maybe we have a new app or new ways of doing things online for our jobs, or an assistant that makes our life easier, right? But there is no physical hardware beyond cars, which I'll put in a separate category, but standard consumer hardware that is fundamentally AI native. And I think this revolution is just around the corner of a whole host of hardware devices that are built with AI that replace a lot of the existing incumbent technologies that we use to live our lives. 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And a car is the area in which we've seen the most progress with AI-enabled hardware. But beyond that, in the consumer space, there's not a lot of things that are regularly used by people or are very fundamentally enabled by one AI brain that's yours and that works with you as a partner of sorts to make your life better and to make you more efficient and productive. So again, that's what I think we're trending toward and what's going to happen and be really transformative over the next one or two years. And what we're seeing now is the early stage of that. And I want to touch on in a minute the spread between that Jarvis ideal and where we're at. But basically, where we're at now is AI hardware that gives AI, or the intelligent brain, so to speak, more context about you and your life so it can help you better. For example, I've done a lot of reviews on this channel of all of that frontier AI hardware. That's things like glasses, and rings, and bracelets, and recorders that sit on your body somewhere. And what all of those do is record video or audio and then feed that in as an MCT layer to your existing Jack2BT, Clawed, Muse, whatever it is that you use. And by recording everything all the time, whether video or audio, you make those personal assistants, those agents, that AI smarter so it can do more things for you. And as the number of integrations increase, so your Clawed can access your Gmail, your Drive, and then just extrapolating that out, it can now serve you better. It has more context, more integrations through hardware, and then it can, again, just do more for you. And that is useful, right? If your local models and your Jack2BT or your Clawed goes to every meeting for you or remembers what your kid said they wanted this morning before you go to work, whatever it may be, it can help you more efficiently just because it knows more about you. But again, there's a big difference between that Jarvis ideal and then where we're at currently. And I think you can categorize those issues as one, the integrations, and number two, the distribution. And by integrations, I mean there are devices now that can capture context, again, with video or audio, but they typically don't capture everything. That's number one. That's integrations on the information inflow side of things. And then you have integrations on the side of what the agents can do with that information. And that's things like a smart home and a suite of devices to make your home smart once the AI has the information to regulate your home on your behalf if you want it to, your car as well, so your physical life, and then also your digital life, being able to communicate on your behalf, book things with your credit cards, and so on. Now that's part of the issue when I think where things are improving. And then the other side of it, again, is distribution, which is you don't want to have this super fragmented layer, ideally, or at least you want kind of a cornerstone product, like a cornerstone Jarvis-style product, because you do need to sync across the board everything. And there is an MCP-style approach where you can kind of keep things fragmented, but you need some ecosystem, right? You need the app store from which apps are built. And we're not fully there yet, and we don't have one of the big companies that can push an ecosystem like that that has really made a step into that area. You're seeing things on the assistant side a little bit from Facebook now. Apple is working on home AI-enabled smart tech, but there's not really been this fusion of those things or a way to fuse together just different companies' products in a way that really nicely benefits you. Now is all of this kind of dystopic? Yes, completely. Are there privacy concerns that have to get figured out? Also a big yes. In fact, if you've seen the movie Her, I think that's what we're going to get to in the next one, two years. And what Her basically is in that movie is just an assistant that knows everything about you that can do everything on your behalf. The problem is that's actually really, really useful, which is why I think it will be so transformative once you crack it. But it hasn't been cracked for those two reasons of integration and distribution. I talked a little bit through where we're at currently as far as that frontier tech goes, and I make lots of videos on this channel about those specific products. And that I think it'll be an exciting, kind of weird, but definitely a very exciting two years in this space. And we're going to see this whole, you know, the last six years of change with AI from Jack2BT onward has been in the digital space, apart from self-driving, which is just kind of its own thing. But now we're going to see that real fusion into the physical world. And that's when a lot of this talk about how good models are or intelligence is becomes very tangible because it'll actually interface with you all the time in your life. And for a lot of people make their lives better. Those are my thoughts on the subject. Let me know if you agree or you don't. Either way, I hope it's some food for thought. I appreciate you being here and I will see you in the next one. Cheers.