Survey shows most people wouldn't pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware
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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...

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    91•4 months ago

    …just under 2,000 voters said “yes.”

    And those people probably work in some area related to LLMs.

    It’s practically a meme at this point:

    Nobody:

    Chip makers: People want us to add AI to our chips!

    • @ozymandias117English
      31•4 months ago

      The even crazier part to me is some chip makers we were working with pulled out of guaranteed projects with reasonably decent revenue to chase AI instead

      We had to redesign our boards and they paid us the penalties in our contract for not delivering so they could put more of their fab time towards AI

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)English
        9•4 months ago

        That’s absolutely crazy. Taking the Chicago School MBA philosophy to things as time consuming and expensive to setup as silicon production.