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The fact that Microsoft Build and Google I/O were held right after each other and that both conferences were AI-focused offered an intriguing comparison of the two firms’ approaches to the technology. Microsoft is all about PCs for AI integration, whereas Google is focused about mobile.
There were no PCs in sight while I sat in the Microsoft audience waiting for the keynote, but most of us pulled out our PCs because smartphones aren’t good for writing. One or the other is not necessary. We require both.
It’s interesting to note that Nvidia in the cloud and Qualcomm on PCs were the two tech companies supporting Microsoft’s presentation, rather than AMD or Intel. This proved once more that those two businesses could probably secure their AI futures if they could set aside their differences and work together more closely. They are both at risk as AMD and Intel step up their competitiveness and as businesses like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and OpenAI step up their own in-house hardware development.
This week, let’s talk about artificial intelligence. We’ll end with what, in my opinion, are the greatest notebooks using the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite that are available.
Smartphone or PC?
A convincing demonstration of how your smartphone could be the most practical method to engage with AI was shown at Google I/O. Your smartphone is always with you, has an easy-to-use camera, and can learn more about your personal life to better tailor AIs to your specific needs.
Microsoft showcased its artificial intelligence (AI) technology for PCs, which can learn from your digital interactions, gaming activities, work habits, interests, and skills. Your work interface is still the PC, and the AI gains a better grasp of your workflow, competencies, and talents by seeing how you handle lengthy conversations.
Your personal life should be improved by Google’s strategy, and your professional life should be improved by Microsoft’s. However, you are not exclusively one or the other; you are both. Consequently, the AI must interact with you both personally and professionally in order to get to know you well and to work and play with you most effectively.
An AI that functions consistently on both platforms is what you’ll need. This means that Google and Microsoft could face competition in the future from a company that can create a new gadget that works well both personally—like a smartphone—and professionally—like a PC.
Strangely enough, at the moment—as I indicated previously with Qualcomm and Nvidia—users would benefit more from Google and Microsoft working together than from them competing, as their respective efforts reinforce one another.
Prioritize Quality Over Performance
The lack of emphasis on quality in Microsoft’s strategy is one of the things that worries me more than Google’s. You will make more mistakes if you boost speed without addressing your quality concerns—which everyone has—and your quality difficulties. If those blunders transmit into AI systems, their frequency and impact will increase exponentially.
The industry is taking a regressive approach to this, emphasizing performance gains over concerns about quality. The ability to identify these errors is declining as speed increases, notwithstanding the claims made by individuals such as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang that coding knowledge is not necessary. We could potentially experience quality problems in the future that worsen more quickly than we can solve them. I’ve already noticed a noticeable decline in quality as businesses use AI more and more.
The reason I am focusing on Microsoft here is not because it has a lower focus on quality than Google but because Microsoft’s focus on development and invention makes the quality problem far more dangerous. Coding was not shown in Google’s demos. The content that users produced was more akin to entertainment, whereas Microsoft’s technologies are utilized to design automobiles, construct buildings, and produce artificial intelligence. Based on the presentations made by the two businesses, Microsoft’s effort carries a higher quality requirement than Google’s due to the increased risks associated with it.
AI Advantages
Microsoft presented a unique and impressive collection of AI application cases. It was a particularly powerful demonstration, where the AI helped the blind by leveraging its capacity to explain what it saw and provide directions and descriptions based on that sight, and it also enabled a person with paraplegia to move and speak.
It may even help a father learn how to play Minecraft with his young son. It could make teachers more efficient while freeing up their time to focus more on individual students. The emphasis on teachers particularly appealed to me because of their importance in ensuring the future generations. Next, the tool’s training feature truly piqued my curiosity with its gameplay demonstration.
This last point caught my attention in particular because I frequently become disinterested in new video games because, in the beginning, I find it more work than enjoyment to pick up the unique aspects of the game. But if I can get past that learning curve, I know I’ll like the game more. Sometimes when I play a story-based game, I just want to get on with the tale without putting a lot of effort into solving a certain challenge.
Furthermore, having a coach can often be more beneficial than using an online guide to help you get over a rough patch. Microsoft showcased this concept with an AI coach that spoke and behaved like a human and was able to see what you were seeing and guide you toward a more successful—and enjoyable—gaming experience. This would greatly allay my concerns when purchasing a new game, and if games include this feature, I will be more inclined to purchase them.
Copilot, which enables you to automatically create presentations from documents, is being widely adopted by Office 365. When making a presentation, it could be far more productive to draft a document rather than use PowerPoint right away.
Although the learning curve is steep, I’ve always wanted to master Adobe’s tools so I could utilize them to make better images and videos. The learning curve is substantially lowered with AI, increasing the likelihood that I could start using the product productively right away.
AI will make onboarding to even the most difficult technologies much simpler, which may be extremely beneficial for businesses like Adobe that have strong tools but have seen a decline in sales due to customers’ apprehension about the associated learning curve.
Conclusion: Our AI Approach Could Be Seriously Wrong
I said we are too speed-obsessed and not quality-focused. I’ll add that decision assistance is the area in which artificial intelligence is most needed. This debate over speed vs quality is one instance of such. For example, the CEO of OpenAI was ousted by the board early this year. That had a terrible ending. Although their choice was well-founded, it was not carefully considered. It may be argued that OpenAI is less safe now than it was before their collapse.
We frequently make choices that, if we had given them more thought, we would not have made at all or would have made them differently. Though in retrospect, we are all wiser, AI has the potential to save us from making many of our grave errors.
This brings us full circle to quality in a sense. Shouldn’t our initial focus be on using AI to help us create a better, happier life, rather than increasing our productivity? Could it guarantee that where we are and where we finish up is where we will enjoy most and regret least, helping us avoid relationships, careers, and blunders that haunt us throughout our lives?
Though it is not the course we are currently taking, I believe AI should be concentrated on guaranteeing our best future, not merely our most productive one.
The Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge
Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft (with Surface), and Samsung all displayed notebooks running the new and excellent Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite CPU during the Microsoft event. This processor is presently the only one with sufficient performance to run Microsoft Copilot in its entirety.
Due to the urgency with which these items needed to be developed, the majority of the offerings were generic. The finest Surface notebook to date is the outcome of Microsoft’s focus on Apple. Samsung took the old Microsoft VR headphone attempt and made the strongest premium experience with a very clean design, the use of premium technology and features throughout, and by far the most beautiful OLED screen. Acer had an interesting feature that lit up when Copilot was in use.
I couldn’t decide which notebook I would want to carry: my longtime favourite, the Surface Notebook; the Acer with its incredibly minimalist design and light feature; or the Samsung with its ridiculously ambitious design.
Ultimately, from remarkably similar options, the Samsung was the one I would choose to purchase if I were in need of a new PC. The Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Edge is therefore my choice for Product of the Week.
Samsung is one of just two Windows PC manufacturers capable of combining smartphones and PCs to produce the AI experience we desire across the board. Lenovo is the other. Keep an eye on these two suppliers in the future, as they may wind up controlling the market for AI-enabled personal devices. Oh, and thanks to Qualcomm for making this possible with the Snapdragon X Elite.
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