back to article On-prem AI has arrived – the solution to cloudy problems no one really has

Walking the floor at HPE's Discover show in Las Vegas last week, this vulture was left with the distinct impression that HPE and its partners believe that the age of turnkey on-prem enterprise-level AI has arrived. Hyperscalers and high-performance computing shops are therefore no longer the only outfits that can access the …

  1. Zippy´s Sausage Factory
    Meh

    On prem AI - is this the "buy your own cryptocurrency mining rig" phase of the AI hype cycle? Certainly feels like it to me.

    Meh face because there's no world weary "here we go again" icon...

  2. Andy Non Silver badge

    HP + AI

    What a dreadful prospect. An image popped into my mind of a printer with Talky Toaster abilities... "Would you like me to print something? How about ink, shall I order more ink?"

    1. Bebu
      Windows

      Re: HP + AI

      《What a dreadful prospect. An image popped into my mind of a printer with Talky Toaster abilities... "Would you like me to print something? How about ink, shall I order more ink?"》

      I imagine you might sell a lot of new (non HP, non Talkie ) printers.

      Generative AI could probably have Talkie arguing the moral and ethical issues against my turfing it (and the defective piece of machinery it haunts) out the nearest window or failing an openable window, an extremely prejudicial introduction to a lead mallet

      [Sometimes you just know what is right.]

      The hatred of AI and AI machines probably needs a new word: misandroidism?

      (I would avoid androidphobia as phobia now customarily conflates irrational fear, dislike and avoidance with outright hatred.)

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