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\n When asked about the AI bubble, executives from chipmakers Intel and Qualcomm pointed to their respective companies\u2019 efforts to improve how computers process AI tasks locally rather than in the cloud.\n <\/p>\n
\n Qualcomm, which makes chips for smartphones and other products, announced last year that it\u2019s expanding into data centers. But that represents a very small part of its business.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cAs far as we\u2019re concerned, where we operate is not where the bubble conversation exists,\u201d Akash Palkhiwala, Qualcomm\u2019s chief financial officer and chief operating officer, told CNN.\n <\/p>\n
\n Intel is focused on products that are important to its consumers, like chips that boost laptop performance, rather than making a big bet \u201cthat takes a lot of investment that may or may not make it,\u201d said its client computing group head, Jim Johnson.\n <\/p>\n
\n CK Kim, executive vice president and head of Samsung\u2019s digital appliances business, said in an interview through an interpreter that it\u2019s not for him to say whether the industry is in an AI bubble. He added that the company is more focused on whether AI is bringing value to consumers.\n <\/p>\n
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\n What that \u201cvalue\u201d looks like is exactly what the thousands of exhibitors at CES tried to demonstrate this week. Humanoid robots were a big part of that equation for companies like Nvidia, Intel, Hyundai and Qualcomm, all of which announced new tech to power human-shaped robots.\n <\/p>\n
\n Boston Dynamics and Hyundai debuted Atlas, a humanoid robot developed in partnership with Google\u2019s DeepMind AI division designed for industrial work like order fulfillment. It\u2019ll be deployed to Google DeepMind and Hyundai\u2019s Robotics Metaplant Applications center in the coming months, and additional customers will adopt it in early 2027.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWith one investment, we can explore any application in the world, from industrial use cases to retail use cases to home use cases,\u201d Aya Durbin, who leads Boston Dynamics\u2019 humanoid application product strategy, said in an interview at Hyundai\u2019s booth when asked what\u2019s driving the interest in humanoid robots. (Hyundai owns a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics.)\n <\/p>\n
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\n Tech companies have also been chasing the next big product following the smartphone and think AI could be key to finding it. At CES, a wave of companies introduced discrete listening devices that can record conversations or voice notes. These products included AI jewelry from a startup called Nirva, the Index 01 ring from smartwatch maker Pebble and the now Amazon-owned wristband from Bee.\n <\/p>\n
\n Speaking to gadgets is often faster than typing, but Amazon and Nirva also see their devices as another means to gather data that can provide insights about a user\u2019s life, though doing so will surely raise privacy concerns.\n <\/p>\n
\n Business leaders seem to agree that AI is here to stay \u2014 even for those like Pete Erickson, CEO of tech events and education company Modev, who said the industry is indeed in a bubble.\n <\/p>\n
\n But Erickson also believes AI is \u201cjust a part of our lives\u201d now.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s going anywhere,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n
\n CNN International\u2019s Leif Coorlim contributed to this report.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Las Vegas, NV \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Robots took over the floor at the biggest technology show of the year: I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-230799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}