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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 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

One of our helpdesk told me about his amazing idea for our software the other day.

"We should integrate AI into it..."

"Right? And have it do what?"

"Uh, I don't know"

This from the same man who came up with an idea for orange juice pumped directly into your home, and you pay with crypto.

And the scary thing is, I can imaging these things coming out of the mouths of people in actual positions of power, where laughing at them might actually get people fired...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

...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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I would pay extra to make sure that there is no AI anywhere near my hardware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They want you to buy the hardware and pay for the additional energy costs so they can deliver clippy 2.0, the watching-you-wank-edition.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you unbend him, clippy could be very useful 🍆📎

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sound advice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I hate that I understood this