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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.

magiccupcake ,

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.

Sam_Bass ,

Its bad enough they shove it on you in some websites. Really not interested in being their lab rats

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

Show me a practical use for AI and I’ll show you the money. Genmoji ain’t it.

Give me a virtual assistant that actually functions and I will give you A LOT of money…

nobleshift ,
@nobleshift@lemmy.world avatar

Pepper Pots levels of capability with local storage and I’ll just hand you my card.

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.

peopleproblems ,

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!”

JDPoZ ,
@JDPoZ@lemmy.world avatar

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!” More like :

“Dave, I see you have beer, soda, and cheese in your fridge. Have you thought about ordering PRIME energy drink? There’s a sale.”

No.

“36 count case of PRIME energy drink ordered!”

I said no.

“changed PRIME energy drink 36 count case shipping to next-day air for $150.79!”

GODDAMNIT!

peopleproblems ,

Yeah this is probably more likely. It’s just so depressing

tal ,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

That’s kind of abstract. Like, nobody pays purely for hardware. They pay for the ability to run software.

The real question is, would you pay $N to run software package X?

Like, go back to 2000. If I say “would you pay $N for a parallel matrix math processing card”, most people are going to say “no”. If I say “would you pay $N to play Quake 2 at resolution X and fps Y and with nice smooth textures,” then it’s another story.

I paid $1k for a fast GPU so that I could run Stable Diffusion quickly. If you asked me “would you pay $1k for an AI-processing card” and I had no idea what software would use it, I’d probably say “no” too.

Grimy ,

Yup, the answer is going to change real fast when the next Oblivion with NPCs you can talk to needs this kind of hardware to run.

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.”

Wooki ,

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

catloaf ,

History has shown that not to be the case.

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.

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

Tenthrow ,
@Tenthrow@lemmy.world avatar

I have to endure a meeting at my company next week to come up with ideas on how we can wedge AI into our products because the dumbass venture capitalist firm that owns our company wants it. I have been opting not to turn on video because I don’t think I can control the cringe responses on my face.

TipRing ,

Back in the 90s in college I took a Technology course, which discussed how technology has historically developed, why some things are adopted and other seemingly good ideas don’t make it.

One of the things that is required for a technology to succeed is public acceptance. That is why AI is doomed.

_haha_oh_wow_ ,
@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

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