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Survey shows most people wouldn't pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware | 84% of people said no

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.

Kraiden ,

someone tried to sell me a fucking AI fridge the other day. Why the fuck would I want my fridge to "learn my habits?" I don't even like my phone "learning my habits!"

TheEntity ,

And what do the companies take away from this? “Cool, we just won’t leave you any other options.”

OhmsLawn ,

I honestly have no Idea what AI does to a processor, and would therefore not pay extra for the badge.

If it provided a significant speed improvement or something, then yeah, sure. Nobody has really communicated to me what the benefit is. It all seems like hand waving.

originalucifer ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

what they mean is that they are putting in dedicated processors or other hardware just to run an LLM . it doesnt speed up anything other than the faux-AI tool they are implementing.

LLMs require a ton of math that is better suited to video processors than the general purpose cpu on most machines.

shonn ,

I wouldn’t even pay less.

Lost_My_Mind ,

84% said no.

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

cyborganism ,

I don’t mind the hardware. It can be useful.

What I do mind is the software running on my PC sending all my personal information and screenshots and keystrokes to a corporation that will use all of it for profit to build user profile to send targeted advertisement and can potentially be used against me.

independantiste ,
@independantiste@sh.itjust.works avatar

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

Godort , (edited )

This is one of those weird things that venture capital does sometimes.

VC is is injecting cash into tech right now at obscene levels because they think that AI is going to be hugely profitable in the near future.

The tech industry is happily taking that money and using it to develop what they can, but it turns out the majority of the public don’t really want the tool if it means they have to pay extra for it. Especially in its current state, where the information it spits out is far from reliable.

cheese_greater ,

I don’t want it outside of heavily sandboxed and limited scope applications. I dont get why people want an agent of chaos fucking with all their files and systems they’ve cobbled together

Fiivemacs ,

NDA also legally prevent you from using this forced garbage too. Companies are going to get screwed over by other companies, capitalism is gonna implode hopefully

_haha_oh_wow_ ,
@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

“enhanced”

Zatore ,

Most people won’t pay for it because a lot of AI stuff is done cloud side. Even stuff that could be done locally is done in the cloud a lot. If that wasn’t possible, probably more people would wand the hardware. It makes more sense for corporations to invest in hardware.

BlackLaZoR ,
@BlackLaZoR@kbin.run avatar

There's really no point unless you work in specific fields that benefit from AI.

Meanwhile every large corpo tries to shove AI into every possible place they can. They'd introduce ChatGPT to your toilet seat if they could

x4740N ,

Imagining a chatgpt toilet seat made me feel uncomfortable

Davel23 ,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjTd2nLDr9Y&t=11s

Lost_My_Mind ,

Aw maaaaan. I thought you were going to link that youtube sketch I can’t find anymore. Hide and go poop.

BlackLaZoR ,
@BlackLaZoR@kbin.run avatar

Don't worry, if Apple does it, it will sell a like fresh cookies world wide

br3d ,

“Shits are frequently classified into three basic types…” and then gives 5 paragraphs of bland guff

Krackalot ,

With how much scraping of reddit they do, there’s no way it doesn’t try ordering a poop knife off of Amazon for you.

Lost_My_Mind ,

Which would be approptiate, because with AI, theres nothing but shit in it.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ,

Someone did a demo recently of AI acceleration for 3d upscaling (think DLSS/AMDs equivilent) and it showed a nice boost in performance. It could be useful in the future.

I think it’s kind of a ray tracing. We don’t have a real use for it now, but eventually someone will figure out something that it’s actually good for and use it.

Telorand ,

…just under 2,000 voters said “yes.”

And those people probably work in some area related to LLMs.

It’s practically a meme at this point:

Nobody:

Chip makers: People want us to add AI to our chips!

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