Artificial Intelligence

Trend - Retailers are deploying in-store kiosks powered by artificial intelligence (AI). These AI kiosks interpret and make recommendations for consumers interacting with them, thus streamlining the retail process. The advent of AI kiosks also reduces the required staff and, thus, costs for retailers.

Insight - Smart technologies are arguably the largest contributor to the ever-increasing number of retailers with seamless, stress-free in-store experiences. Consumers who shop in-stores enjoy the benefits of assistance from employees, as well as the ability to demo items that they may not have known about prior to entering the store. To further improve these experiences for consumers, brands are launching smart kiosks that use AI to assist, make recommendations to, and process payments from, consumers.

Trend - Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies are launching tools that 'humanize' content generated by AI. These tools make writing sound more natural and fluid by using authentic writers to train the models, rather than the repetitive or robotic writing style of many writing tools

Insight - AI-powered tools continue to gain popularity in both professional and personal lives. One of the moat commonly used segments of AI includes generative tools that produce images, videos, or various forms of written content, such as emails or essays. However, one common complaint for many of these tools, particularly for written content, is the predictable, robotic tone. In order to make these tools more appealing to consumers with such complaints, companies are launching 'humanizing' services.

Trend - Artificial intelligence has been adapted to enable barcode-less product scanning, facilitated by algorithms that analyze images and videos of objects to identify unique features. This technology accurately accounts for retail items in real time, providing shoppers with seamless checkout experiences.

Insight - As artificial intelligence shapes consumer shopping experiences, brands increasingly rely on automation to address friction points and ensure high rates of fulfilled purchases. Adopting automation technologies minimizes wait times and maximizes throughput, allowing customers to complete shopping trips in shorter amounts of time. This approach helps businesses prioritize seamless experiences and reduce errors, aligning with consumer preferences for convenience.

Trend - Both companies and individual researchers in the autonomous vehicle industry are launching open-source tools to enhance self-driving capabilities. On both the hardware and software side, these tools are widely applicable and can be used to simulate errors in self-driving models, improving safety.

Insight - While autonomous driving is gaining popularity at an exponential rate, it is still far and away a minority of drivers that utilize these features. Even drivers with vehicles capable of self-driving often avoid the feature for safety concerns. However, as hardware and software become more advanced, the safety of autonomous driving continues to improve, mitigating safety concerns. Companies in the space are launching open-source self-driving tools to accelerate the improvement of these features.

Trend - Dairy farming companies are implementing artificial intelligence (AI) tools to increase resource efficiency and yields. The AI tools use machine learning to find ways of cutting waste and provide insights on how to improve throughput. These tools increase profits through resource management.

Insight - Dairy farmers face increasing pressure to enhance productivity and efficiency while maintaining high standards of animal welfare and milk quality. The demand for sustainable and ethical farming practices without raising prices has led to many groups turning to AI technologies that streamline operations and reduce manual labor. AI-powered systems enable farmers to monitor herd health, optimize feeding schedules, and automate milking processes, allowing them to focus on strategic farm management.

Trend - Brands are creating tools to identify and monitor lameness in livestock, particularly cattle, using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms. These detectors use sensors, cameras, and data analysis software to observe and analyze the movement and behavior of animals, allowing farmers to prioritize preventative care.

Insight - The steady demand for dairy products has led to a necessity for dependable farming technology that simplifies cattle care and combats shortages. Consequently, there has been a rise in AI tools that automate farm tasks, enabling farmers to dedicate their time and resources to other vital aspects of farm management. Companies catering to consumers seeking automated farming solutions can attract an audience in search of reliable tools to effectively manage supply and demand.

Trend - Laptop companies are creating devices with Neural Processing Units (NPUs) dedicated to processing artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. These are combined with numerous AI tools built into the software for these devices, resulting in laptops designed for professional AI-accelerated use cases.

Insight - Some of the most promising aspects of the recent increase in AI tools relate to computing efficiency. Most professionals that work on a computer engage with one or more AI services on a daily basis. As a result, these workers, and their respective companies, desire hardware designed for AI workloads, as these would improve overall workplace efficiency. Laptop brands are responding to these pressures with AI-focused NPUs built into laptops for improved AI processing.

Trend - Companies are launching artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools that listen to and summarize videos for the user.These AIs transcribe the audio from the entire video, and focus on summarizing the transcription into its key takeaways. These tools are designed to save time and effort for users.

Insight - Whether for work, school, or leisure, most consumers engage with long-form video content regularly. However, these videos can be time-consuming, leading to many finding it difficult to focus on the entire video. As a result, many consumers have defaulted to solutions such as researching video summaries or watching videos at increased speeds. With these imperfect solutions in mind, startups are turning to artificial intelligence to make more sophisticated, customizable video summary tools.

Trend - Companies are launching artificial intelligence (AI)-powered scheduling tools designed to enhance productivity. These tools grant the AI direct access to your calendar, schedule, and required tasks, simplifying scheduling time with others while enabling the AI to generate an optimized day plan.

Insight - With many employees still working in remote or hybrid scenarios, it is paramount for these employees to ensure proper time management and planning. Additionally, the air gap between employees raises difficulties in scheduling time for meetings and events. Additionally, many individuals struggle with balancing work lives and personal lives, further adding to the importance of scheduling tasks. brands are recognizing this and are augmenting scheduling applications with AI to improve efficiency.

Trend - Smart home companies are releasing baby monitors with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features. Rather than acting as cameras and recording devices, these monitors use AI features for non-intrusive monitoring of breathing or sleeping patterns, body temperature, and more.

Insight - New Millennial and Gen Z parents are tasked with balancing full-time work with social lives and raising their newborns. Rising costs of living have led to these parents often having less free time than previous generations. To alleviate the strain of home tasks, many of these parents turn to smart home or AI-powered products, such as robot vacuum or AI washing machines. In recognition of this demand, smart home and infant care brands are releasing AI baby monitors with time-saving features.