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Better Offline CES 2025: Day 3 - Pt. 1

2025/1/9
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Ed Ongweso Jr.
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Ed Zitron
一位专注于技术行业影响和操纵的播客主持人和创作者。
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Jesse Farrar
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我，Jesse Farrar，认为许多CES展品和Kickstarter项目一样，承诺很美好，但最终却一无所获，或者产品质量很差。许多项目专注于AI，但实际应用价值有限，例如那些只会说'你好'的小机器人。这些项目与Kickstarter项目有共同之处，即承诺远大于实际交付。我们节目经常评论这类产品，既是科技评论，也是对科技现象的人类学研究。 我，Ed Zitron，认为CES展会上的许多产品缺乏实际应用价值，许多公司只是将AI技术简单地应用于现有产品，缺乏创新性。例如，一款声称能帮助自闭症和阅读障碍患者的VR眼镜，缺乏必要的临床试验和监管审批，是虚假宣传。针对自闭症和残疾人的科技产品往往缺乏严格的审查，这令人担忧。

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The podcast starts with introductions of the hosts and guests. They discuss their experiences at CES 2025, focusing on the prevalence of AI and the lack of truly innovative products. They highlight some notable exceptions, such as a baseball simulator and efficient computing technology.
  • Many products at CES 2025 are AI-powered but lack real-world utility.
  • The AI pavilion is described as "baffling" and filled with underwhelming products.
  • Some genuinely useful technologies were found, such as efficient computing and a baseball simulator.

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Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Venetian with an attached open bar where reporters, experts and various other characters bring you the stories from the floor. In the third episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Jesse Farrar and Michael Hale of Your Kickstarter Sucks, Max Cherney of Reuters, Matt Binder of Mashable, Tom McKay of ITBrew and journalist Ed Ongweso Jr., to talk about trying to find something useful that AI does in a show where everybody uses AI so liberally that it's effectively stopped meaning anything.  

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