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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 4 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] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, but I would pay good money for a freely programmable FPGA coprocessor.

If the AI chip is implemented as one, and is useful for other things I'm sold.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think manufacturers need to get a lot more creative about simplified computing. The RPi Pico's GPIO engine is powerful yet simple, and a good example of what is possible with some good application analysis and forethought.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Whichnoart of the pico are you referring to specifically? Never heard the term "GPIO engine" before. Is that sort of like the USB stack but for GPIO?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I have few pi pico but i didn't knew about it, can you please elaborate, because I've been using them just like any other esp32 stm32 esp8266 i have