News Nvidia sets up new social media channel to showcase AI applications for RTX PCs, intensifying speculation around a looming gaming CPU launch

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So what is keeping a Gaming PC from being an "AI PC"? As far as I can tell it's only software. All the hardware components are there.

THAT'S what I've been expecting out of Nvidia. This article makes me think otherwise.

Mind you I get the fact that this is some abstract thing and there isn't much benefit from it for me at this time, but I've been expecting Nvidia to announce some glorified driver update or somesuch that allows a gaming GPU (that they constantly remind us is more powerful than an NPU) to handle these functions.
 
AI appears to be of little use to the average user, more of a curiosity or toy at best. AI can and will have its uses but for the end user it will be minimal, in regards to actually using AI directly so I'm not really seeing the "AI PC" marketing hitting the intended mark. Consumers are tired of digital assistants and overly intrusive corporations in general and it's showing as most of this crap is falling flat on its face. I run in a very broad social circle due to my profession and I know only a few individual even slightly interested in AI as a tool. Most are interested in it as an industry tool and how that will affect things like entertainment (movies, music, games, written word) or production (design, manufacturing design). As far as an NVIDIA CPU, ARM based I'm assuming, I'm only interested if it's socketed or on a fully upgradeable motherboard. Preferably the former.