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A Talking Lamp? Top 5 Unbelievable AI Technologies in 2024
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AI Technologies in 2024
The year 2024 is sure to go down in history as the era of Artificial Intelligence. New AI technology has reached an astounding level of accuracy and versatility. The possibilities are now endless.
In the last few months, new ideas and gadgets have been coming out at such a pace that it’s nearly impossible to keep up. Here’s a rundown of the top 5 unbelievable AI technologies in 2024 and beyond.
OpenAI: Sora AI
Open AI’s new Sora application can make realistic video footage based on your language prompt.
Sora’s work is based on a library of video samples. It’s been trained to associate these videos with certain words. For example, a user asks for a video of two pirate ships battling each other in a cup of coffee, then Sora can use those prompts to pinpoint existing videos of ships, battles, and coffee. It will study designs, movements, and concepts and use them to make an original and realistic masterpiece.
Open AI is being understandably cautious about releasing this new AI technology in 2024. They’ve only released it to a few developers so that they can fix and tweak any bugs. Nevertheless, this upcoming AI technology sends the imagination soaring.
Baracoda: BMind AI Smart Mirror
This upcoming AI mirror is supposed to increase its owner’s mental health and improve their mood.
The BMind AI Mirror was developed by health tech pioneer Baracoda. It uses Artificial Intelligence to scan its owner’s face, posture, and gestures. Then it makes an educated guess as to their current emotional state. It even asks them how they’re feeling!
Recently, a journalist at an AI conference tested the mirror out. When she stood in front of it, it began by asking how her day was going. To test it, she said her day was terrible. It then turned on a calming, blue light, offered words of encouragement, and even offered a meditation session.
This new AI technology is expected to be available to the public by the end of 2024, and with a price tag between $500-$1000.
Nobi: Smart Lamp
The one thing that most seniors fear is falling. They’re more prone to these kinds of events and are impacted by them more deeply than younger people.
That’s why Nobi, the age tech specialist, developed the Smart Lamp. This attractive ceiling light fixture is loaded with high-tech features. Its primary purpose is to prevent falls and provide critical instant help when falls occur.
It unobtrusively monitors the movements of anyone in its range. As soon as someone falls, the caregiver that is connected to the lamp is notified. They can then talk with their patient or loved one through the lamp to make sure they are okay.
After a fall, the device provides caregivers with security-protected pictures of the fall. Caregivers can analyze the pictures to see exactly what happened, allowing them to avoid falls in the future.
Pininfarina: OSIM uLove3 Well-Being Chair
There’s a new way to relax using AI technology in 2024. It’s a new chair that could find its way into the corner of your own living room.
Pininfarina is the Italian luxury firm famous for the design of the Ferrari. They’ve now released an amazing new AI smart chair that takes stress relief into new realms.
Everyone experiences stress in their own way depending on factors such as age, size, and activity level. When a user sits in the OSIM uLove3 Well-Being Chair, an AI-powered biometric algorithm measures heart rate and lung function. It uses this information to determine a body tension score. Then, it uses that information to provide a personalized system of massages and calming music.
This chair is already available for purchase. At around $7,999.00 USD, it doesn’t come cheap, but for such a cool thing, it may just be worth the price.
Swarovski: AX Visio Smart Binoculars
Bird watchers and other outdoor enthusiasts around the world will be excited to hear about Swarovski’s AX Visio Smart Binoculars.
Bird watching is a practice as old as humankind itself. It’s fun, relaxing, and easy to do. It’s hard to imagine that someone could have found a way to make it even better. Swarovski, the luxury crystal company, was up to the challenge. They’ve developed a fantastic new pair of binoculars that will make spotting much more exciting.
The binoculars use new AI technology to access an immense database of bird data from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Cornell is one of the premier bird research facilities in the world. It uses the database to identify the exact species of bird or mammal it’s focused on.
Work is ongoing to teach these binoculars how to identify everything: such as butterflies, mushrooms, and even stars.
Other New AI Technologies You Should Know About
2024 won’t be the only year to look forward to when it comes to Artificial Intelligence. Here’s a few other AI technologies that we’ve covered on inspiring click:
- The Human AI Pin: This is a wearable, standalone AI device that can do things like translate your speech into another language and monitor dietary choices. It is meant to replace your phone with something a little more invisible.
- Organoid Intelligence: Also known as OI. This is a new branch of AI that is creating the worlds first biological-computer using real brain cells.
- Smart Cane: The Smart cane turns ordinary walking canes into ones that can pair with smart phones; helping the visually impaired in incredible ways.
- iterate.ai Weapon Detection System: This is a free, open-source app that is offered to non-profit organization to help protect them. It can detect guns in schools and immediately inform the police.
- Google’s Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer: This is Googles newest medical AI that runs diagnostics on patients. In the future, it may be used in clinics so that you can get in to see the doctor a lot quicker.
AI technology in 2024 is sure to make many things that we once thought of as fantasy into a reality. This leaves us wondering what inspiring innovations tomorrow will bring.
IC Inspiration
At the dawn of AI was the now famous ChatGPT. This was one of the earliest publicly available applications that allowed natural conversation between computers and humans.
Who knew it could help diagnose a young boy?
Alex started experiencing significant pain at the age of four when he tried jumping in a bouncy house his parents bought him. His nanny gave him pain medication which helped for a while, but then his symptoms started changing. He was having emotional outbursts. He started chewing things and seemed exhausted all the time. He couldn’t move his legs properly, seeming to drag the left one behind him like dead weight.
His parents took him to the doctor, and then another doctor. Some time past, and a variety of other doctors failed to come up with a diagnosis that satisfactorily explained all his symptoms.
His mother, Courtney, theorizes that this was because each specialist was only interested in or able to study their own area of expertise. His condition impacted so many areas of his life that no single specialist could get to the heart of the matter.
So, after 17 different doctors and one trip to the emergency room, Courtney tried a different approach. She asked ChatGPT.
“I went line by line of everything that was in his (MRI notes) and plugged it into ChatGPT,” she told Today.com. “I put the note in there about … how he wouldn’t sit crisscross applesauce. To me, that was a huge trigger (that) a structural thing could be wrong.”
And she was right.
Once ChatGPT knew everything there was to know about Alex’s condition and compared it to all the medical knowledge housed on the internet, “tethered cord symptom” was ChatGPT’s suggestion.
It’s a relatively rare medical condition related to the more commonly known Spina Bifida. Children who have it are born with their spinal cord attached to another part of the body, such as a cyst or a bone. It causes pain and limits a child’s freedom of movement.
Courtney took Alex to a new neurologist along with ChatGPT’s suggestion, and the doctor agreed with the computer.
Today, Alex has undergone surgery to correct his condition. He’s beginning to recover, much to his and his family’s tremendous relief. Soon, this sports-loving boy may be out on the field with his friends, again.
Experts still warn against the idea that ChatGPT can be an effective diagnostician.
It can only review and repeat what others have written and can’t think outside the box and come up with an original diagnosis. It’s still better to get a final diagnosis from a trained medical expert.
However, it’s an exciting thought that it can, in the very least, start us on the right path. It helped Alex find the treatment he deserves.
What a tremendous start to AI technologies in 2024.