AI PC hype bubble swells, but software support lags marketing AI hype is now infecting a computer industry that just months ago was still wrestling with how best to define an AI PC. It won't come as a surprise that the biggest brands could be creating short-term customer expectations that go unfulfilled. System builders and chip giant Intel have settled on the AI PC as a way to drive …
" taking meeting minutes, organizing a fantasy football league, automating enhancements for photo and video editing, or laying out the perfect itinerary for a family reunion based on everyone's arrival and departure times"
They always come up with utter trivia, don't they. The only remotely challenging task in this list could be 'automating enhancements for photo and video editing', although even there human experts seem to have done pretty well so far, but I suppose 'AI' might save time by speeding up complex processing *. However the rest of the suggested applications are negligible tasks for any thinking human so why cite them as examples where 'AI' might be needed? One can't avoid the impression that this is technology seeking problems to solve -- self-congratulatory technocrats shouting "look at me Mum - I'm so clever!" rather than attempting to serve their public with what it actually wants or needs.
* however, attempts at 'AI enhancement' of video so far, for example on the Internet Archive seem to have been restricted to appallingly crude colorization of classic BW movies, which I have had to spend quite a lot of effort undoing.
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There is a lot of colourisation around - a process that is regarded by artists and curators to be the cultural equivalent of molestation, distorting the past and destroying the artistic credibility of the image.
AI: Dumb down your culture with a click of your mouse. Wahey. Oh brave new world.
I have no time for wall to wall AI as my computing decks were cleared several years ago to make space for the imminent metaverse revolution. Only when that happens, fills my every computing moment, burns like a comet across the sky and gently fades away in a damp patch of post-coital tristesse, will I have the space in my life for AI. So unless I blinked and missed the whole metaverse thing, which was supposed to be the biggest thing since the pyramids and worth zillions, AI will just have to wait its turn on the gimmick roster.
I haven't missed the whole metaverse thing have I? I don't recall it being cancelled. Wrong sort of snow/holding it wrong etc. Maybe they could have a website for this sort of thing, so we know which gimmick we are supposed to throw money at, what the world is about to be saved by, and what current moral panic should be distressing us. Are we still running with online harms or have we moved on to GAI?
"This refers to AI PCs with a high performance NPU (40–60 tera operations per second) and an "AI-first operating system" that enables "pervasive AI capabilities in the OS and apps.""
Oh bloody hell, no! I'm quite happy with a PC that does what I need, when I need it. I do not want a PC that does what it thinks I need, when it thinks I need it, whether I need it or not.
Maybe time to run out and buy the fastest non-AI PC you can get, in the hope that it will last long enough to either outlive the AI craze or let everyone else deal with the bugs. Never buy version 1 of anything!
"Maybe time to run out and buy the fastest non-AI PC you can get ..."
The other strategy is to wait for the tulip mania to reach full flower before buying your daffodil. There ought to be some decent markdowns just before stock runs out, as they try to clear "unwanted" inventory for the shelf space.
"And just who are these analysts and why are the qualified to make a forecast?"
They are people in need for money, paid for their "analytics" by people who would lose money if this "AI" hype ebbed low before their AbsolutelyInsufferable design fails can be sold.
BTW: What gives you the impression that "analysts" or "experts" need to have a qualification instead of a marketing title?
The PC have not demonstrably shown use cases for AI PC's. The PC industry needs to show how offloading Ai functions to the PC will increase ROI for companies and people. Gaming probably has the most potential for increasing AI performance...We should also remember that much of what we do is in the cloud.
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