AI advancement
AI advancements over the last two years have been nothing short of amazing. Initially driven by Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI, this wave has spread far and wide, leaving few firms out of this AI feeding frenzy. As with all initial technology advancements, most vendors are screaming, “You must deploy AI now!” However, they have little experience or understanding of AI yet, which is fueling a staggering failure rate approaching 90%. One exception is HP, which has been aggressively deploying and using AI internally. At HP’s Imagine event last month, we saw a better AI future focused not on deploying AI for its own sake but on developing detailed plans encompassing HP’s internal resources and an impressive number of partners to ensure that AI deployments will succeed. Let’s talk about HP’s unique AI strategy, and we’ll close with my Product of the Week: the first AI-driven HP Envy printers that, thanks to AI, promise to accomplish your complex print jobs. HP Hope Program Addresses 2 Key Issues One of the programs announced at HP Imagine was the HP Hope program, which effectively kills two birds with one stone, or one PC in this case. This program addresses two problems. One is the excessive number of older PCs that still work but end up in landfills. The other problem is the huge number of people, old and young, in underdeveloped areas who can’t afford new PCs. The HP Hope Recycling Futures program provides buyers with a disposal option. When customers return an HP PC to HP, it is refurbished and sent out to people who need a PC but lack the funds to buy one. This process is not a single-cycle program; these refurbished PCs can be cyclically refurbished for several generations, much like schoolbooks are resold, so that fewer new machines have to be purchased, and fewer PCs make it into landfills or recycling shops while they still have substantial utility..
