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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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[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago

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

[-] nayminlwin@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Can't help but think of it as a scheme to steal the consumers' compute time and offload AI training to their hardware...

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 2 points 4 months ago

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.

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