My bet is that the big tech movement to use AI to grab as much wealth as possible will result in a severe backlash and wake many people up to the fact that the lastest modern technology is not all it's cracked up to be.
Solar market will further expand. Prices likely to go down as well.
There is a thread from last week. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42490343
I'm betting on me.
I'm betting on good, old writers that are not molested by ChatGPT. We will see troves of people getting back to Paperback & Hard Cover and people opting for pen and paper - analog - to record their daily lives.
We're just scratching the surface on Generative AI and I'm already tired of it. I got a tech book that was obviously written with the aid of ChatGPT.
I am favoring old non-fiction books for my reading pleasure - the ones that were bourne from human toil.
Product / Tech:
- Retro game engines
- Doom engine
- Wolfenstein engine
- Raycasting
- Console/PC emulators getting more popular
- New search engines doing okay (Kagi etc)
- Linux distros
- Programming
- Anything low-level
- C , C#, Rust
- Anything without the term "AI" in it
- Retro phonesUltra low-power, always-on, multi-year battery life, forget-about-them IoT devices will seep even deeper in everyones everyday life.
i'm betting that i will get out of debt in 2025. Hopefully i win :)
From here to the next 10 years or so, the bet is on Medical-Help. Almost every country in the world is struggling with constant under-staffing, populations are growing older, while pay for Nurses is going down. Now with AI technologies becoming more and more reliable, the biggest pain point to solve is Healthcare.
AR glasses and the return of the glass-hole. Even less privacy.
Improving myself, and stay relevant while AI keeping improving its automating capabilities.
Once upon a time Assembly developers thought optimizing compilers would never be good enough.
Low cost ground based drones / robotic weapons platforms.
I’m betting on an AI brain/assistant for individuals. My info is all over the place - blogs, newsletters, articles, emails, slack, tasks. I think the amount of information will surely grow, along with the overwhelm
That’s why I’m putting my bet on building a product that helps manage it all better called Saner.AI
On-device LLMs/AI
SP500 keeps going.
BitGrid - a systolic array of 4x4 bit Look Up Tables and latches.
Like Faraday's first electric motor, it'll have no practical use, at first. If I'm right, it'll be somewhat useful in reducing the power consumption of AI and let us ride Moore's law for a few more decades.
People will go back to using Walkmans
Betting on Southeast Asia labor market -> build product in low cost market and sell to high willingness to pay countries
batteries
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"Dumb electronics" - iPods/MP3players, dumbphones, e-ink screens/phones/readers, film cameras.