HP Imagine event showcases unique AI innovations

AI advancements in the past two years are nothing short of amazing. Driven initially by Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI, this wave has spread far and wide, leaving some companies out of this AI feeding frenzy.

As with all early technology advances, most vendors are screaming, “You need to deploy AI now!” However, they still have little experience or understanding of AI, leading to a staggering failure rate of around 90%.

One exception is HP, which is 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 involving HP’s internal resources and an impressive number of partners to ensure AI deployments succeed.

Let’s talk about HP’s unique AI strategy, and we’ll close with my product of the week: the first AI-powered HP Envy printers that, thanks to AI, promise to get your complex print jobs done.

The HP Hope program addresses 2 key issues

One of the programs announced at HP Imagine was the HP Hope program, which effectively killed two birds with one stone, or a PC. This program solves two problems. One is the overwhelming number of old PCs that still work but end up in landfills Another problem is the large number of old and young people in underdeveloped areas who cannot afford new PCs.

D HP Hope Recycling Future The program provides buyers with a settlement option. When customers return an HP PC to HP, it is refurbished and shipped to people who need a PC but lack the money to buy one. This process is not a single-cycle program; These refurbished PCs can be recycled in cycles over several generations, much like schoolbooks, so that fewer new machines need to be purchased, and fewer PCs make it to landfills or recycling stores when they’ve had enough of a useful life.

Because AI remains cloud-based, these refurbished PCs are perfect for cloud AI access and the increased use of AI tools to monitor, manage, remotely repair and protect through Wolf Security. Despite the fact that this PC is old, the results provide solid improvement. In some, if not most, cases, even refurbished PCs can often perform better in terms of reliability, security and availability than new PCs that aren’t wrapped with HP’s growing AI services.

3D collaboration

HP and Google presented them Project Starline effort, which is impressive. I have been passionately following video communications since seeing my first video conferencing system at Disneyland in the 1960s.

A long-standing problem with video conferencing technology, dating back to systems dating back to the early 1960s, is that talking to someone on a screen doesn’t feel natural. The 2D representation of the person reduces the realism of the interaction. This lack of immersion often leads to the need for in-person meetings, especially for critical interactions such as job interviews, performance reviews, collaboration and relationship building – whether personal or professional.

Project Starline allows for a 3D image of the person you’re talking to to extend beyond the screen and join visually in front of you rather than within the monitor. If you’ve seen those high-tech billboards where the image seems to move away from the display, the experience is similar. You can also high-five the remote speaker — but it’s not a real projection, so you can’t feel their hand, and it disappears if you try to touch it.

This technology is a new level of using AI. I call it “distant presence” because it makes the distant person feel like you’re in the room with them. It’s pretty amazing, and I hope this technology eventually embraces future digital assistants, making them look more realistic without having to build a robotic body.

HP Wolf Security’s enhanced AI

HP is also monitoring the use of AI in malware attacks and reports that AI-powered attacks are still on the horizon, with significant testing underway, indicating that bad actors are still learning how to use these tools.

One of the more interesting but troubling changes is embedding malware into SVG images on websites and online using XML. These attacks tend to install a significant number of scripts that infect devices using four or more distinct Trojan carriers. This shotgun-like approach significantly increases the chances of a successful infection, giving a hostile actor complete control of a PC.

HP’s Wolf Security is being developed to combat this new offensive threat. Yet, with AI now being used to create, the only defense capable of mitigating or eliminating the problem would be to use an equally capable AI and regular reminders to the employee to avoid clicking on surprising image files.

wrap up

This year, HP was impressed with Imagine AI efforts, but most powerful was HP’s effort, along with partners, to create a method to motivate employees to use these new tools. Often, the inability of users to even try new tools makes most of them less likely to use them. HP is focusing its AI efforts on helping its business customers’ employees get up to speed with these AI tools so that organizations get a return on investment in this class of equipment promises.

This approach positively differentiates HP from companies like Dell, which in most cases simply throw products into trouble and do not work to ensure successful implementation. HP’s approach represents its relative maturity in that it is scaled and focused on convenience, not just selling hardware and software to an inexperienced and somewhat naïve customer base still learning what AI can and cannot yet do.

At its Imagine event, HP showcased two new all-in-one NV printers 6100e And 6500e. This will eventually be covered with HP Print AIThe industry’s first intelligent (AI) print manager.

(L/R) HP Envy 6100e and HP Envy 6500e All-in-One Printers

We’ve all run into problems when printing a document and not placing it correctly. Spreadsheets are the worst, often printing one line or column on a page and then spitting out hundreds of useless print copies that make little or no sense, such as:

Due in beta this year, HP Print AI will automatically format print jobs, so the printed document is useful. This means that spreadsheets that look like spreadsheets and documents that wouldn’t otherwise fit the paper you’re printing on will fit the paper. AI analyzes your print job based on past training to determine the best layout. Then, it auto-configures that result so that every print job is as perfect as the AI ​​can make it:

Ironically, I ran into a problem when printing my “Know Before You Know” report from HP for the event. My HP printer crops both ways, blocking out the names and numbers I need if I run into trouble (and I run into trouble).

Although I have a picture of the new and very nice HP Envy 6100e and 6500e printers at the top of this section, the print service is my product of the week because, like most of you, I’m tired of fighting with my printer. The idea of ​​it working well automatically is something I’ve been waiting for for decades.

Editor’s Note: Images featured in this article were submitted to HP.