Subj : Tech bosses are desperate to make AI PCs happen  and spoiler aler
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Mon Feb 12 2024 20:15:04

Tech bosses are desperate to make AI PCs happen  and spoiler alert, they 
probably will

Date:
Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:08:07 +0000

Description:
Tech companies are doing their utmost best to convince you that an AI PC is 
the thing you need the most in your life, right now, in exchange for your 
money. What is an AI PC? Who cares!

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We all know about, and are maybe tired of, artificially intelligent computing 
right now. AI tools to make you productive , workplace AI subscription 
services , AI operating systems . 

AI buses, AI plants, and so on. We all think we know its the future, but even 
I dont know what that future looks like, and its my job. 

Despite this, polling druids Gartner s latest premonition is suggesting that 
AI PCs will represent 22% of all personal computers in 2024, even though I 
hadnt even known AI PCs were a thing until I read about them five minutes 
ago. Gartner foretells our AI future 

Looking to the carnival fortune teller for answers, its clear that a 
definition for AI hardware is well-established: AI PCs [are] PCs equipped 
with dedicated AI accelerators or cores, neural processing units (NPUs), 
accelerated processing units (APUs) or tensor processing units (TPUs), 
designed to optimize AI tasks on the device [...] without relying on external 
servers or cloud services, it wrote in the press release. 

Said tasks, it says, and I strongly believe, will be the bane of all our 
wretched lives: generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). This is something 
that I do understand: generating text, images based on human prompts, which 
weve seen a lot with OpenAIs ChatGPT and Googles Bard AI chatbots, which you 
should probably not bother with . 

Gartner believes that the technology, which is already in full swing with 
Galaxy AI on Samsung smartphones (other poisoned chalices are available), 
will make AI-enabled phones 22% of all basic and premium smartphone shipments 
in 2024. AI PCs are the future of what, exactly? 

If you too are feeling deep shame and embarrassment over failing to keep up 
with the new hip doohickey the kids are going hootenanny over, fear not: not 
even the men in black suit and tie know either. 

Though Lenovo may now be developing an AI OS , The Register reported back in 
October 2023 that the President of its Multinational Devices Group Luca Rossi 
didnt (couldnt?) specific examples of tasks that an AI PC produced by the 
company could accomplish faster than regular computing hardware. 

What they do know is that AI is merely the chasing of a trend, something 
thats gone beyond an arms race to become a very small pond, and other 
tortured metaphors. Gartners Senior Director Analyst Ranjit Atwal opts for 
the diplomatic ubiquity, saying that it will will pose challenges for vendors 
in differentiating themselves from competitors, making it harder to create 
unique selling points and drive increased revenues. 

Most of this is corporate-speak out the wazoo, but if were looking for a 
scapegoat for AI PCs, or AI in general, increased revenues just about works, 
as Q4 2023 saw the PC sector return to (ever so slight) growth after eight 
solid years of decline . You buzzword-craven consumer, you. More from 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/tech-bosses-are-desperate-to-make-ai-pcs-happen-
and-spoiler-alert-they-probably-will


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