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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    4 months ago

    “Shits are frequently classified into three basic types…” and then gives 5 paragraphs of bland guff

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      4 months ago

      With how much scraping of reddit they do, there’s no way it doesn’t try ordering a poop knife off of Amazon for you.

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      4 months ago

      It’s seven types, actually, and it’s called the Bristol scale, after the Bristol Royal Infirmary where it was developed.

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        4 months ago

        I know. But I was satirising GPT’s bland writing style, not providing facts