An Intel-commissioned study on AI PCs says AI PCs are good, actually

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What is an AI PC, and do I need one? That’s a question I’ve been asked quite a lot in the past year, along with “who exactly do you think you are” and “why don’t you get a haircut”.

Anyway, it’s a complicated question to answer. But if you’ve been internally debating the merits ofAI PCs, Intel has prepared a document just for you, entitled “Reclaim your day: The impact of AI PCs on productivity” (PDF warning).

“AI PCs can save people hours weekly through built-in artificial intelligence with features like accelerated task processing, enhanced privacy, and adaptive learning” says the report, and it’s got some figures to back it up. According to the study, the “hidden cost of computer chores” stacks up pretty quickly, with 74.63 minutes a week on average lost to “analysing data”.

Compiling data was said to take up just over an hour of participants time, while 78.62 minutes were lost on average coding. That seems high for a sample size of 6,000, but then it’d only take a reasonable number of full-time coders thrown into the mix to bump that average up, so I can buy it.

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A slide from an Intel-commissioned presentation on AI PCs showing the “hidden cost of computer chores”

The good news is, AI PCs are great at this sort of stuff, at least according to Intel’s study. Under the heading “quantifying the AI advantage”, productivity gain is said to be more than 240 minutes saved weekly on routine tasks, which is pointed out to be “longer than the average length of a flight from London to Malta”. Okay then.

There’s some odd methodology going on here in places, too. 44% of French participants are said to believe that AI PCs are “a gimmick or futuristic”, which seem like wildly different terms to use in one question.

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Another interesting stat is that 86% of participants said they were concerned about privacy and security of their data when using an AI PC, although only 17% believe that AI PCs are not secure or regulated.

Again, that second metric seems to be throwing in two (this time slightly different) terms into the question. After all, something can be viewed as secure and not regulated, or indeed, regulated but not secure.

The report also identifies an “education gap” that it says shows a greater need for users to understand AI implementation and how to use it.

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A slide from an Intel-commissioned study on AI PCs detailing the “AI PC education gap”

“Many AI users spend a long time identifying how best to communicate with AI tools to get the desired answers or response. Organisations providing AI-assisted products must offer greater education in order to truly showcase the potential of ‘everyday AI’.”

Me personally, I’d take more windy walks on the beach. In all seriousness though, it’s of no real surprise that, when asking people what they’d do if they had more free time, they come up with a variety of ideas. It does seem to be missing the point a touch, however.

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A slide from an Intel-commissioned study on AI PCs entitled “reclaiming time for what matters”

Email writing. Filing documents. Scheduling calls. Video editing. Photo editing. Copywriting. Analysing data. It’s wonderful to imagine that an AI PC can help with these mundane tasks, right up until the moment that you realise that if an AI can do it well enough to satisfy the demand, there might not be much of a reason left to employ you.

And as to whether employers would simply let you wander off while AI did your work for you, so you could enjoy your free time? Forgive me, but I really don’t think so.

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Still, 92% of full-time employees said that having more time back in their day would help them achieve greater work life balance, which probably comes as no surprise to those that know where bears go to the bathroom and which religion the Pope practices.

Oh, and AI-powered Copilot Windows integration is very much a thing, although it may be on the cusp of simplybeing called Windows Intelligenceinstead.

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