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11/01/2024 | Press release | Archived content

We asked an AI Chatbot about the future of IoT – here’s what it said

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies evolve and become more sophisticated, they present new capabilities and challenges to IoT developers.

The potential benefits are substantial, including enhanced predictive analytics, autonomous systems, and personalized user experiences. But the challenges of data security, ethical implications and more must be carefully managed.

We asked ChatGPT, the generative AI chatbot developed by OpenAI, a series of prompts to detail the likely future trends, opportunities and challenges for AI-integrated IoT applications. Here's what it had to say.

Now, it's fair to say that the responses were really quite accurate.

AI chatbots are not without their critics, with issues around algorithmic bias and 'hallucination' (when a chatbot writes plausiblesounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers) commonplace for large language models like ChatGPT. Fundamentally, these models are able to learn from most of the world's digitally-accessible text-based information - for better and worse.

But this response seems in-keeping with the trends, opportunities and challenges that we might put forward too. In fact, we did so in our 'Six trending topics for 2024' article.

Perhaps the accuracy of the responses speaks, in part, to there being broad agreement across the IoT sector about the direction of travel. AI and IoT are set to become more and more connected as the power of real-time data and automated responses is realised.

The true challenge, of course, is not to simply forecast the trends, but to unlock the many opportunities presented in a manner that is fair, equitable and safe.

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