A few editors weren't impressed with the AI announcements at the show. "With the exception of Nvidia, most of the AI was gimmicky or meh," says editor David Katzmaier. And editor Eli Blumenthal said that much of what he saw on the show's floor bored him when it came to AI.
"Of all the AI-related demos at CES, I have yet to find a compelling use case that will actually be helpful to people anytime soon," Blumenthal says. "There are plenty of creative applications for audio mixing, photography, video, etc., but they're all somewhat similar to what we've seen from Google, Apple, Samsung and Microsoft at their events. Nothing I saw makes me say to myself 'This is the future, I can use this.' This is doubly true for localized use cases that take advantage of NPUs in the latest computers. If you're in a creative industry it could be a game changer, but for many it's a cool trick right now that you may use once in a while, if ever."
"So much of the AI that people today actually use requires an Internet connection, and that requirement has been something people have been fine with so long as Google Gemini, ChatGPT or Microsoft CoPilot actually function properly."
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