Bad AI From Amazon, Apple, and Others Is Bad for the Gadget World the Verge⁠↗

Maybe someday, “you can do AI with it” will be a selling point for gadgets. In the interim phase, it feels like we’re wasting an entire generation of hardware while we wait for the software to catch up. And there are so many other interesting problems to solve! What if, instead of hand-wavey promises about AI, we got smartphones that lasted twice as long or didn’t break so easily? What if startups focused less on AI and more on the millions of people looking for devices that are less addictive and more attuned to a specific purpose? What if Amazon and Apple stopped waiting for some magical technological overhaul and spent time making their existing devices easier to use?

There’s still so much room for innovation and improvement in the hardware we use every day, and yet nobody wants to try that stuff. They’d rather sit around and wait for AI to solve all our problems. No matter how long it takes.