Forgot to add: you won't buy them but rent them, like a cable box.
Most non-computing folks will see them as Alexa-Plus systems that they don't have to worry about updates and other stupid computer geek chores.
Have you checked SC Top 500 lately?
They seem to be positioning these as ubiquious computing devices, i.e. the computing toaster Steve Jobs was questing after, starting way back in the late '70s and early '80s.
These will not be stand alone computing devices but likely tied to a network and corporate control systems.
That the corporation(s) and/or gov't will be monitoring everything done on the system goes without saying.
If anything these will probably be the death of personal computing.
They want to replace PCs with PCDs (Personal Computing Devices) that will have to be tied to the net (i.e. rented like a cable box) to work and monitors everything you do on them.
Oh yeah, they'll let you plot and goon on the boxes, just so they have dirt on you for control down the line.
I wonder how long it'll be before real computers are restricted to only licensed (gov't / corporate approved) individuals? Maybe we make it to 2040 but pessimist me says they'll try to start controlling PCs before 2035.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I think the last good AI I saw in a movie was Robbie the Robot in Forbidden Planet.
What have the democrats ever done for us?
[Rache Bartmoss cracks his knuckles]
- that guy from Bleeding Cool News that looks like a giant lawn gnome.
He was pretty good in Fanboys (2009).
Sure it is.
Back in 1978 I got a Taikonauts building kit with several figures for Christmas.
Wait, that was Micronauts. Totally different.
Except that Nvidia is a shovel seller in the AI economy; they made $81.6 billion revenue and net income (profit) of $58.3 billion last quarter.
Granted, they are plowing almost all their profit back into AI and datacenter companies; wonder how that's going to work out.
That Nvidia is plowing it's hardware profits back into AI/Datacenter companies, to keep the ball rolling, it's somewhat worrisome.
Seems like there's not a lot of profits in AI field overall, except for what the shovel sellers are making.
Nvidia Pours Billions Into the Companies Supporting AI Growth
So many VPs will be using these to read email and surf teh web.
Unless you use amplitude modulation on the "lazer" and bounce it off the ionosphere.
[Apollo shakes his fists at space going worshipers who ignore him, packs bags for space trippin']
A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
