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I’m a PC enthusiast, and built my own PC last year with an RTX 5070 TI, AMD 9800X3D.
If you listen to AI enthusiasts, they sound like a bunch of LinkedIn influencers snorting coke. There are all these really cool sounding facts and tidbits about AI. How the language models are passing all these crazy tests, they created an entire operating system using clod code and that is so foundational and you should really care about it because it’s going to change everything. They’re going to be able to spin up thousands of AI agents and clear out all of the programming backlogs to create all these wild, crazy things in PC computing that we have never seen before because they have so much computing power for AI, like it’s just so advanced!!!
But like, seemingly nothing has changed about PC computing, and nothing has gotten better. Windows 11 seems to be the same or worse as previous operating systems. Microsoft has not seen any gains in productivity at all. Because if they had, they’d be pushing out a lot more useful stuff. Like why do we have StarDock blinds a third party software? If AI was so capable, Microsoft would be able to make all sorts of really amazing stuff, like entire Windows customizations the way that you can do with Linux. This is what I would really be excited and eager to see. But nope! Nothing like that
About internet technology? Xfinity seems to say a lot about how they are using AI to make their network faster and more reliable. You’ll never notice it. Nothing is faster, nothing is more reliable, my internet bill went up by 10 bucks. But why? I still have outages all the time.
Gaming is completely disappointing. Blizzard is owned by Microsoft and they have not used AI at all. There’s like a bug report for him for world of Warcraft and it’s 10 pages long, they are not able to keep up. So it seems like they are not using or are not using it properly. But what happened? I thought it was a foundational technology, so smart and so powerful that it can pass law school exams and create entire browsers from scratch!!! How come small indie company Blizzard entertainment isn’t using it to make their expansions better or faster?