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The great thing about AI, it is finally a killer feature that is enjoyed and useful by every user worldwide. And the tech industry finally have an excuse to up
by ksec 1y ago
The great thing about AI, it is finally a killer feature that is enjoyed and useful by every user worldwide. And the tech industry finally have an excuse to up sell 16GB as baseline, and perhaps even try to push 24 or 32GB Memory, along with GPU / NPU and CPU upgrade.
For users, a few hundred dollar extra ( on top of the original purchase ) is a such a small number compared to the productivity gain over the usage span of the computer.
AI alone not only increased the server hardware requirement but also user client requirement. It is basically the question everyone has been asking, what is after Smartphone? And to a degree it is AI. ( or LLM )
This will easily push the whole Semi-Conductor Industry forward all the way to 2032 ~ 2035. We will be at 8A or 6A by then.
PCIe 7? possibly PCIe 8? WiFi 9 which is a fixed version of WiFi 8. There are so many great Hardware improvement coming out all because of the demand of greater computing usage.
Software side has been rather boring TBH. I really like the phase Allan Kay uses to describe modern days software are "reinventing the flat tire".
- SlowTao 1y ago> The great thing about AI, it is finally a killer feature that is enjoyed and useful by every user worldwide. We must live in very different worlds. Most people I know absolutely hate it and are immediately put off by anything that tries to force it in. I am not AI but it needs to be used purposefully rather than just another check box to the feature set. Productivity gains for some, needless slop for others.
- CaptainFever 1y agoAnecdotes don't mean much. For example, most people I know use it. It's just a very normal technology now. For something more substantial than an anecdote, 92% of UK students use AI: https://studenttimes.org/news/uk-students-turn-to-ai-in-record-numbers-new-surv/556/ https://studenttimes.org/news/uk-students-turn-to-ai-in-reco...