Time does not stand still
Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 4:33 am
The ability to see and capture a growing market is what sets these companies apart from the thousands of startups that have closed down very quickly.
The future is already coming.
AIaaS startup Whisper makes hearing aids. The company’s CEO, Dwight Crowe, admits that this isn’t the most common problem. But the market is ripe for change. There are several companies trying to create a quality hearing aid.
Wisper differs from them in its sales approach. Traditional hearing aids typically cost $1,000 to $5,000. Whisper rents its devices to consumers for a monthly subscription fee.
Essentially, consumers are buying software with artificial intelligence built into the device. The package also includes system updates, service, and visits to a local doctor.
Earlier this week, Whisper sent out its third major AI update to consumers. After monitoring user usage of a feature called the Sound Separation Engine, the company updated its algorithms and determined that the system should be activated about 67% more often.
All of this was done without the user noticing. The AI that controls the gadget makes decisions about the volume level in real time, and the “Sound Distribution Engine” determines whether the sound is background canada number data noise or something that requires more volume, clarity, and attention.
Whisper's technical specialists, simply by studying the data, found out when artificial intelligence activates certain functions and optimized the functionality.
The big picture
Neural asked Whisper CEO Andrew Song how the company sees AIaaS. Here’s his answer:
“It’s best when AI is used in consumer electronics in a seamless way—Siri and Alexa are the most obvious examples of the opposite. When AI “just works,” it predicts what the user wants or says without requiring the customer to do anything. It’s nice for the user to interact with AI without having to do anything—they just hear the world clearly and distinctly.”
Perhaps constantly updated gadgets like the smartphone are not yet a thing of the past, but history tells us that it will definitely happen.
It took less than a century for physical media to be almost completely replaced by digital media. CDs and DVDs only made sense until it became more profitable to sell subscriptions online.
A system in which the user is forced to regularly buy a new model device will make sense as long as it is more prestigious than owning an artificial intelligence system that allows the user to forget that he is using hardware at all.
The future is already coming.
AIaaS startup Whisper makes hearing aids. The company’s CEO, Dwight Crowe, admits that this isn’t the most common problem. But the market is ripe for change. There are several companies trying to create a quality hearing aid.
Wisper differs from them in its sales approach. Traditional hearing aids typically cost $1,000 to $5,000. Whisper rents its devices to consumers for a monthly subscription fee.
Essentially, consumers are buying software with artificial intelligence built into the device. The package also includes system updates, service, and visits to a local doctor.
Earlier this week, Whisper sent out its third major AI update to consumers. After monitoring user usage of a feature called the Sound Separation Engine, the company updated its algorithms and determined that the system should be activated about 67% more often.
All of this was done without the user noticing. The AI that controls the gadget makes decisions about the volume level in real time, and the “Sound Distribution Engine” determines whether the sound is background canada number data noise or something that requires more volume, clarity, and attention.
Whisper's technical specialists, simply by studying the data, found out when artificial intelligence activates certain functions and optimized the functionality.
The big picture
Neural asked Whisper CEO Andrew Song how the company sees AIaaS. Here’s his answer:
“It’s best when AI is used in consumer electronics in a seamless way—Siri and Alexa are the most obvious examples of the opposite. When AI “just works,” it predicts what the user wants or says without requiring the customer to do anything. It’s nice for the user to interact with AI without having to do anything—they just hear the world clearly and distinctly.”
Perhaps constantly updated gadgets like the smartphone are not yet a thing of the past, but history tells us that it will definitely happen.
It took less than a century for physical media to be almost completely replaced by digital media. CDs and DVDs only made sense until it became more profitable to sell subscriptions online.
A system in which the user is forced to regularly buy a new model device will make sense as long as it is more prestigious than owning an artificial intelligence system that allows the user to forget that he is using hardware at all.