We all know about artificially intelligent computing and maybe we're tired of it right now. AI tools to make you productive, AI subscription services in the workplace, AI operating systems.
AI buses, AI plants, etc. We all think we know what the future is, but even I don't know what that future will be like and it's my job.
Despite this, the surveying druids GartnerGoogle's latest premonition suggests that AI PCs will account for 22% of all personal computers by 2024, although I didn't even know AI PCs existed until I read about them five minutes ago.
Gartner predicts our future in AI
If we look to the carnival fortune teller for answers, it's clear that there is a well-established definition for AI hardware: “AI PC.” [are] PCs equipped with dedicated AI cores or accelerators, neural processing units (NPUs), accelerated processing units (APUs), or tensor processing units (TPU), designed to optimize AI tasks on the device […] without depending on external servers or cloud services,' he writes in the press release.
Such tasks, he says, and I firmly believe, will be the bane of all our miserable lives: generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). This is something I do understand: generating text and images based on human cues, something we've seen a lot with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard AI chatbots, which You probably shouldn't 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 phones account for 22% of all 'basic and premium' smartphone shipments in 2024.
AI PCs are the future of what, exactly?
If you, too, feel deeply embarrassed and embarrassed about not being able to keep up with the new fad the kids are raving about, fear not: not even the men in black suits and ties know it.
Although Lenovo may now be developing an AI operating system, Register reported in October 2023 that the president of its multinational devices group, Luca Rossi, “did not” (couldn't?) specific examples of tasks that an AI-enabled PC produced by the company could perform faster than regular computing hardware .
What they do know is that AI is nothing more than the pursuit of a trend, something that has gone beyond an arms race to become a very small pond and other tortured metaphors. Gartner senior analyst director Ranjit Atwal opts for diplomatic “ubiquity,” saying it “will present challenges for vendors to differentiate themselves from their competitors, making it more difficult to create unique selling points and drive higher revenue.” .
Most of this is corporate talk, but if we're looking for a scapegoat for AI PCs, or AI in general, “revenue growth” pretty much works, as in Q4 2023 the PC sector returned to (very slightly). ) growth after eight solid years of decline. You cowardly consumer of buzzwords, you.
