How AI Will Change Personal Tech in 2025

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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We’re hearing from our reporters and columnists about some of the biggest companies, trends and people in tech and what could be in store for 2025. Artificial intelligence has continued to work its way into many aspects of our lives in 2024, in everything from apps to phones. WSJ personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen joins us to talk about the tech that will change our lives in the new year. Danny Lewis hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.8	Welcome to Tech News Briefing.
0:22.5	It's Monday, December 30th.
0:24.9	I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.
0:29.3	We're hearing from our reporters and columnists about some of the biggest companies,
0:33.6	trends, and people in tech, and what could be in store for 2025.
0:40.0	2024 was the year that artificial intelligence became entwined with all sorts of personal tech, beyond chatbots.
0:42.7	From smartphones to apps, tech companies are integrating AI into everyday tools in new ways,
0:48.5	and the trend is going to continue into 2025.
0:51.7	How will AI change everything from weather apps to fitness tools? And what happens when
0:56.4	this tech falls into the hands of scammers? Our personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen joins us to
1:02.1	discuss. Nicole, one thing you've been looking at lately is weather apps and specifically
1:08.2	why they're not always accurate. But is that something that could
1:11.1	change next year? Yes, definitely. Google's DeepMind Artificial Intelligence Lab just announced
1:17.1	Gencast, which is an AI weatherman, essentially. It's a machine learning model that uses
1:24.3	similar technology to the generative AI that makes images, video,
1:28.5	music, etc., but applies it to weather forecasting. So a typical 10-day forecast is only accurate
1:35.0	about half the time, according to NOAA, which is the big weather governmental agency here in the U.S.
1:41.7	Google's machine learning-based weather model, GenCast, produce forecasts
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