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Survey shows most people wouldn't pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware | 84% of people said no (www.techspot.com)
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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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[–] explodicle 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I still want this fridge. (Source)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it doesn't seem all that hard to make, as long as you don't mind the severely reduced flexibility in capacity and glass bottles shattering against each other at the bottom

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Not to mention the increased expense, loudness, greater difficulty cleaning, and many more points of failure!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Now THIS I could get behind! Still not AI though. it's a very dumb timer system that would be very useful. 1950's tech could do this!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

always xkcd