The trend toward personal—and personalized—artificial intelligence (AI) has swiftly moved from interesting idea to undeniable market transformational catalyst. Research points out that 61% of U.S. adults have used AI in the past six months, with a growing number of those using it daily. This not only is an expected byproduct of widespread AI use in businesses and other enterprises, but the rapidly accelerating number of consumer-oriented use cases.
This has huge implications for the devices we use at work, at home, and on the road. Users, both professionals and consumers, now demand AI at their fingertips. This must be designed, integrated, and managed from the start, where and when devices are imagined and designed. AI tools and services added after the fact, like buying a helpful add-on peripheral or application, no longer suffices for increasingly demanding and knowledgeable users.
It's also important to point out that “personal AI” isn’t simply jargon for chatbots or some other kind of AI assistant. Personal AI represents the next step forward in client solutions, one where intelligence is native, integrated, automated, and omnipresent. As a result, personal devices from notebooks and thin clients to smartphones and wearables must deliver an entirely new experience for users at work and at home.
To do that, leading technology providers like Dell have engineered new client solutions shaped by dramatic evolutions of hardware, software, and intelligent services. These solutions now come with onboard NPUs and AI accelerators to deliver the growing performance demands of personalized AI, as well as purpose-designed AI agents that actually anticipate users’ needs based on a wide range of factors. And, of course, those solutions are designed with essential guardrails to ensure proper and responsible AI use, including tools for cybersecurity, governance, data protection, and trustful treatment of personal information.
For business users, personal AI as an integrated fabric of personal devices means always-on access to relevant compute resources in the data center, on the edge, and in the cloud. Role-conscious agents give employees with diverse and often-changing needs that learn how they work, including rules engines to ensure cybersecurity policy management and responsible use.
For consumers, personal AI turns PCs, smartphones, tablets, and intelligent wearables into personal data centers with near-endless personalization and smooth access to data across form factors and platforms.
In fact, personal AI enables users and their organizations to rethink what they want and need from their devices. Instead of thinking ways to access, view, and interact with data stored in a single repository, users now can connect with their data—including data they might not have even been aware of previously—in the manner they prefer. That could be through voice input, unified communications, social media, or traditional keyboard-based connectivity.
In these and other ways, intelligent clients have made a dramatic transition from devices to centers of intelligence, with an emphasis on intent, personalization, automation, and contextual awareness. This new breed of client solution, pioneered and refined by Dell and other market leaders, empowers users wherever and whenever they need information to make informed decisions.
