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Survey shows most people wouldn't pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware | 84% of people said no (www.techspot.com)
submitted 6 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Companies are going all-in on artificial intelligence right now, investing millions or even billions into the area while slapping the AI initialism on their products, even when doing so seems strange and pointless.

Heavy investment and increasingly powerful hardware tend to mean more expensive products. To discover if people would be willing to pay extra for hardware with AI capabilities, the question was asked on the TechPowerUp forums.

The results show that over 22,000 people, a massive 84% of the overall vote, said no, they would not pay more. More than 2,200 participants said they didn't know, while just under 2,000 voters said yes.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

84% said no.

16% punched the person asking them for suggesting such a practice. So they also said no. With their fist.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

30% of people will believe literally anything. 16% means even half of the deranged people aren't interested.

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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

AI in Movies: "The only Logical solution, is the complete control/eradication of humanity."

AI in Real Life: "Dave, I see you only have beer, soda, and cheese in your fridge. I am concerned for your health. I can write you a reminder to purchase better food choices." Dave: "THESE AI ARE EVIL, I WILL NEVER SUBMIT TO YOUR POWER!"

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I just want good voice to text that runs on my own phone offline

[–] HerrBeter@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

FUTO Keyboard & voice input?

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

Fr, this one is great

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[–] magiccupcake@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Most people have pretty decent ai hardware already in the form of a gpu.

Sure dedicated hardware might be more efficient for mobile devices, but that's already done better in the cloud.

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[–] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It just doesn't really do anything useful from a layman point of view, besides being a TurboCyberQuantum buzzword.

I've apparently got AI hardware in my tablet, but as far as I'm aware, I've never/mostly never actually used it, nor had much of a use for it. Off the top of my head, I can't think of much that would make use of that kind of hardware, aside from some relatively technical software that is almost as happy running on a generic CPU. Opting for AI capabilities would be paying extra for something I'm not likely to ever make use of.

And the actual stuff that might make use of AI is pretty much abstracted out so far as to be invisible. Maybe the autocorrecting feature on my tablet keyboard is in fact powered by the AI hardware, but from the user perspective, nothing has really changed from the old pre-AI keyboard, other than some additions that could just be a matter of getting newer, more modern hardware/software updates, instead of any specific AI magic.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I guarantee most this AI bullshit is nothing but a backdoor to harvest more user info, anyway.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

"enhanced"

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Personally I would choose a processor with AI capabilities over a processor without, but I would not pay more for it

[–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

AI enhanced anything is pointless when everything seems intended to separate you from your money.

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