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I would pay for AI-enhanced hardware...but I haven't yet seen anything that AI is enhancing, just an emerging product being tacked on to everything they can for an added premium.
In the 2010s, it was cramming a phone app and wifi into things to try to justify the higher price, while also spying on users in new ways. The device may even a screen for basically no reason.
In the 2020s, those same useless features now with a bit of software with a flashy name that removes even more control from the user, and allows the manufacturer to spy on even further the user.
It's like rgb all over again.
At least rgb didn't make a giant stock market bubble...
Anything AI actually enhanced would be advertising the enhancement not the AI part.
DLSS and XeSS (XMX) are AI and they're noticably better than non-hardware accelerated alternatives.
My Samsung A71 has had devil AI since day one. You know that feature where you can mostly use fingerprint unlock but then once a day or so it ask for the actual passcode for added security. My A71 AI has 100% success rate of picking the most inconvenient time to ask for the passcode instead of letting me do my thing.
Already had that Google thingy for years now. The USB/nvme device for image recognition. Can't remember what it's called now. Cost like $30.
Edit: Google coral TPU
I use it heavily at work nowadays. It would be nice to run it locally.
You don't need AI enhanced hardware for that, just normal ass hardware and you run AI software on it.
But you can run more complex networks faster. Which is what I want.
Maybe I'm just not understanding what AI-enabled hardware is even supposed to mean
It's hardware specifically designed for running AI tasks. Like neural networks.
https://github.com/huggingface/candle
You can look into this, however it’s not what this discussion is about
Exactly what we are talking about.
Stick to the discussion of paying a premium for hardware not the software
Not sure what you mean? The hardware runs the software tasks more efficiently.
The discussion is whether people should/would pay extra for hardware designed around ai vs just getting better hardware
I'm curious what you use it for at work.
I'm a programmer so when learning a new framework or library I use it as an interactive docs that allows follow up questions.
I also use it to generate things like regex and SQL queries.
It's also really good at refactoring code and other repetitive tasks like that
it does seem like a good translator for the less human readable stuff like regex and such. I've dabbled with it a bit but I'm a technical artist and haven't found much use for it in the things I do.
Not the guy you were asking but it's great for writing powershell scripts