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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.

snek_boi ,

I agree that we shouldn’t jump immediately to AI-enhancing it all. However, this survey is riddled with problems, from selection bias to external validity. Heck, even internal validity is a problem here! How does the survey account for social desirability bias, sunk cost fallacy, and anchoring bias? I’m so sorry if this sounds brutal or unfair, but I just hope to see less validity threats. I think I’d be less frustrated if the title could be something like “TechPowerUp survey shows 84% of 22,000 respondents don’t want AI-enhanced hardware”.

shonn ,

I wouldn’t even pay less.

catloaf ,

I would pay less, and then either use it for dumb stuff or just not use it at all.

TheEntity ,

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

Wooki ,

Plenty of companies offering sane normal solutions and make bank in the process

catloaf ,

History has shown that not to be the case.

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.

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

a lot of AI stuff is done cloud side.

If it’s done in the cloud then there’s no need for them to buy “AI-accelerated hardware”

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.

tal ,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

I honestly have no Idea what AI does to a processor

Parallel processing capability. CPUs historically worked with mostly-non-massively-parallelizable tasks; maybe you’d use a GPU if you wanted that.

I mean, that’s not necessarily “AI” as such, but LLMs are a neat application that uses them.

On-CPU video acceleration does parallel processing too.

Software’s going to have to parallelize if it wants to get much by way of performance improvements, anyway. We haven’t been seeing rapid exponential growth in serial computation speed since the early 2000s. But we can get more parallel compute capacity.

metaStatic ,

this goes to show just how far the current grift has gone.

AI enhanced hardware? Jesus Fuck take all my money that's amazing.

Dedicated LLM chatbot hardware? Die in a fire for even suggesting this is AI.

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

_haha_oh_wow_ ,
@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

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