Hard Pass

Nvidia opened Taipei’s enormous Computex trade show on Sunday with a spark, literally. The chipmaker unveiled a new PC CPU called the RTX Spark, which it dubbed a “superchip,” and named a who’s who list of PC makers that will soon deliver AI PCs powered by it.

Still, PC manufacturers have not released a lot of specifics about each of their offerings, including pricing. These systems appear to be full-fledged Windows versions of the DGX Spark mini-computer that Nvidia already sells to developers for about $4,800.

Amazon has shut down an internal company leaderboard which ranked employees based on how much they used AI tools at work.

U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra on Tuesday shared a screenshot of Trump's social media post where he revived his jabs at Canada as the '51st state.'

Companies keep pushing AI as something positive, in increasingly stupid ways.

From the SAAB JAS-39 Gripen E fighter supposedly having AI, to the Sony A7R VI having AI auto focus, and other weird applications.

As a resonably logical person who works in IT, I can see the Gripen E having the space, energy and general computing resources to run a local AI model, but the Sony A7R VI?

I am mashing X hard on that one!

How much of AI bullshit is just machine learning and just older tech we have had for a while under different names?

Don't get me wrong, I hate AI with a passion, I am not trying to excuse it's use, I am trying to figure out what devices use AI branding as a marketing gimmick while using less bad crap, and what devices actually could use AI.

As an IT guy and a hobby photographer I feel like AI is far too much A while inhibiting the I of the user.