What Happens When AI Runs Everything? Futurists Talk Future at Dreame’s Nebula Next 01 Launch
Key takeaways
- From robot-run households to self-writing code, futurists at Dreame’s event sketch an AI future that’s exciting—and a little spooky.
- In late April, the Chinese R&D firm Dreame, best known to Americans for its home appliances, held a launch event for an entire range of new products, including an all-new four-door sports car—the Nebula Next 01.
- Former Microsoft “Technical Evangelist” and tech-futurist blogger Robert Scoble says “We’re going to have something like a Neuralink device, or brain-computer interface.
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From robot-run households to self-writing code, futurists at Dreame’s event sketch an AI future that’s exciting—and a little spooky.
In late April, the Chinese R&D firm Dreame, best known to Americans for its home appliances, held a launch event for an entire range of new products, including an all-new four-door sports car—the Nebula Next 01. Because Dreame touts the use of artificial intelligence (AI) both in the design of its products and the end-user experience, the company convened a panel of renowned forward thinkers to kick around a bigger question: what kind of future those same AI tools might create. Here are some of the most prescient, provocative—and disquieting—things they had to say.
Former Microsoft “Technical Evangelist” and tech-futurist blogger Robert Scoble says “We’re going to have something like a Neuralink device, or brain-computer interface. You’re going to think, and a humanoid robot is going to do. So, does that mean 100 times more productive? Can one guy with one Neuralink run 1,000 robots? Maybe that guy is going to have 1,000 times more productivity.”