AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care

a year ago by David Gerard to c/techtakes

Intel’s Q1 2025 earnings press release talked up their new AI-enabled chips. But these are not selling. [Intel] In the earnings call, CFO Dave Zinsner mentioned they had “capacity constraints in In…
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TheThrillOfTime 58 points a year ago

AI is going to be this eras Betamax, HD-Dvd, or 3d TV glasses. It doesn't do what was promised and nobody gives a shit.

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spankmonkey 46 points a year ago

Betamax had better image and sound, but was limited by running time and then VHS doubled down with even lower quality to increase how many hours would fit on a tape. VHS was simply more convenient without being that much lower quality for normal tape length.

HD-DVD was comparable to BluRay and just happened to lose out because the industry won't allow two similar technologies to exist at the same time.

Neither failed to do what they promised. They were both perfectly fine technologies that lost in a competition that only allows a single winner.

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xkbx 19 points a year ago

BluRay was slightly better if I recall correctly. With the rise in higher definition televisions, people wanted to max out the quality possible, even if most people (still) can’t tell the difference

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GenosseFlosse -1 points a year ago

Afaik betamax did not have any porn content, which might have contributed to the sale of VHS systems.

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fastandspurious 31 points a year ago

Dude don’t throw Betamax in there, that was a better product than the VHS. AI is just ass.

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samus12345 12 points a year ago

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RedSnt 11 points a year ago

I was just about to mention porn and how each new format of the past came down to that very same factor.
If AI computers were incredible at making AI porn I bet you they'd be selling a lot better haha

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cubism_pitta 6 points a year ago

Betamax actually found use in Television broadcast until the switch to HDTV occurred in 2009

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BlueMonday1984 14 points a year ago path: 0 16911798 16912396 16912860, hotness: undefined, score: 14, children: 1
adarza 5 points a year ago

the later digital variants of beta weren't retired by sony until ~ 2016.

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blarth -5 points a year ago

No, I’m sorry. It is very useful and isn’t going away. This threads is either full of Luddites or disingenuous people.

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self 6 points a year ago

nobody asked you to post in this thread. you came and posted this shit in here because the thread is very popular, because lots and lots of people correctly fucking hate generative AI

so I guess please enjoy being the only “non-disingenuous” bootlicker you know outside of work, where everyone’s required (under implicit threat to their livelihood) to love this shitty fucking technology

but most of all: don’t fucking come back, none of us Luddites need your mid ass

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kgMadee2 2 points a year ago

@blarth @TheThrillOfTime huh. You totally name at least one use case then, huh
You only didn't because it's so blindingly obvious

(It's BS)
Also, learn about Luddites, man

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TheThrillOfTime 1 point a year ago

I have friends who are computer engineers and they say that it does a pretty good job of generating code, but that's not a general population use case. For most people, AI is a nearly useless product. It makes Google searches worse. It makes your phone voice assistant worse. It's not as good as human artists. And it's mostly used to create dumbass posts on Reddit to farm engagement. In my life, AI has not made anything better.

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