Tech trends of 2023 – Apparata

The coming year promises to be an eventful year, also in the technical field. What will be the most important tech trends of 2023?

ChatGPT (and LaMDA) replaced Google

The arrival of the artificial intelligence system ChatGPT hit like a bomb. You can ask this system questions in natural language, to which you will then receive answers. One of the companies that will probably suffer the most from this is Google.

Because why would you look up something on Google, if you can also ask the question directly to a super smart artificial intelligence in natural language? Fortunately for Google, the company also has its own artificial intelligence, LaMDA, which experts say is even better than ChatGPT.

Microsoft, one of the largest investors in OpenAI (and therefore ChatGPT), also wants to link it to its own search engine Bing. So one of the expected breakthroughs in 2023 is artificial intelligence in the search field, and a new competitive battle.

Other AI tech trends of 2023

Because machine learning is so powerful, we see artificial intelligences based on machine learning popping up everywhere. In recent years, this was mainly in the field of big data, but now we as consumers are also starting to notice this a lot.

For example, the first students have already been caught using artificial intelligence to write papers. Not only education, but also other branches of sport will probably notice a lot of improvements in artificial intelligence.

Consider, for example, clothing stores, where matching clothing is sought based on your body measurements. More and more office work and design work will also be taken over by AI. For us humans, there is still plenty to do. If we can work well with AI, we will be able to do much more than now.

Delivery drones and delivery robots

Unmanned delivery drones are already appearing in the first cities. We already wrote about food delivery robots in Miami, in 2023 they will appear in many more cities. Large companies such as Amazon are also busy working on mass parcel transport with drones. In some cities this has already happened and in 2023 there will be many more. It could therefore very well be that a Dutch or Belgian city is also chosen by, for example, Uber.

Breakthrough of the Metaverse for Virtual Workplaces

Mark Zuckerberg’s plans to develop a metaverse aren’t making much headway yet, but futurologists and analysts do think the Metaverse will be very attractive to businesses as a virtual office. This unites the best of both worlds.

Thanks to the virtual office environment, you can easily consult with each other and the group feeling remains, while you no longer have to spend time traveling. Or an expensive office building. Not bad either, of course, in these tough economic times. A virtual Friday afternoon drink alone is of course less fun than drinking with colleagues.

Blockchain tech trends of 2023

While many cryptos have collapsed, the technology behind it, the blockchain, is still very much alive. That other phenomenon of 2022, the NFT, will also play an increasingly important role behind the scenes.

Because digital title deeds are very useful. From games to the notary. Web3, the decentralized internet, is in theory almost unlimited scalable and therefore very useful. In practice, hackers appear to be able to paralyze a small blockchain, which happened with Solana, among others.

Digital Twins as tech trends of 2023

With the collective term Digital Twins, futurologists mean that a model exists in both the real and the virtual world, and that they can be converted into each other. They form, as it were, twins, one copy in the real world, one copy in the virtual world.

With a 3D printer you can bring a model to life and vice versa you can convert an existing object, animal or human into a digital model. As a consumer you notice that there are more and more user-friendly gadgets. A garage owner can also immediately see what is wrong with your car, or you can see this yourself with an app. One of the tech trends of 2023 to keep an eye on.

Breakthrough sustainable energy

Europe is an energy-poor continent in terms of fossil fuels. In the past year we have been confronted with the facts. ‘Soaring energy bills dominated the news. More and more people therefore want to take their energy supply into their own hands.

Solar panels and wood stoves are not to be dragged. This will continue for a while. Everything that has to do with insulation and energy saving in general will also be strongly in the picture.

Which we won’t see in 2023, but soon after

Although the first flying car model, the Xpeng X2, was already spotted in Dubai last October 2022, the Chinese manufacturer XPeng will not start large-scale production of the car until 2024. The expected sales price will be around € 150,000, so that’s a little saving then.

Another breakthrough that we will see in the coming years is home robots. Tesla is now developing an affordable model of between €10,000 and €20,000, and it is estimated that this model will be available in 2024.

In 2025, the first large-scale cultured meat will be on the Dutch shelves. The Dutch start-up Meatable is currently finalizing the production process and the factories where these cruelty-free pieces of meat will come from.