Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoThe RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up134arrow-down1external-linkThe RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”arstechnica.comRekall Incorporated@piefed.socialM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·8 days agoThe only people who have interest in “AI PCs” are the ones trying to sell them to you. And there’s not really much if any support for local AI in commercial software. Copilot doesn’t run local AI, as far as I’m aware. It’s purely marketing.
minus-squareRekall Incorporated@piefed.socialOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoThe discussions in the vein of “this laptop has a NPU with 45 TOPS” are particularly funny. So what if it has 45 TOPS? Who cares?
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoI see one of the primary uses of laptop npu is camera image adjustment for teams/zoom calls.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoWhat do you mean “adjustment”?
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoBackground blur, image enhancements, I even have one on my laptop that adjusts your eyes so it looks like you’re looking at the camera.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 days agoI have all of that without an NPU
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoIt might be more efficient on an npu.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoSounds like marketing nonsense to me.
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoYou can watch your cpu and gpu spike when you turn on various features that could be offloaded to dedicated chips. You probably would have thought a math coprocessor or cpu-native media encoding/decoding was nonsense when it first came out too.
The only people who have interest in “AI PCs” are the ones trying to sell them to you.
And there’s not really much if any support for local AI in commercial software. Copilot doesn’t run local AI, as far as I’m aware. It’s purely marketing.
The discussions in the vein of “this laptop has a NPU with 45 TOPS” are particularly funny.
So what if it has 45 TOPS? Who cares?
I see one of the primary uses of laptop npu is camera image adjustment for teams/zoom calls.
What do you mean “adjustment”?
Background blur, image enhancements, I even have one on my laptop that adjusts your eyes so it looks like you’re looking at the camera.
I have all of that without an NPU
It might be more efficient on an npu.
Sounds like marketing nonsense to me.
You can watch your cpu and gpu spike when you turn on various features that could be offloaded to dedicated chips.
You probably would have thought a math coprocessor or cpu-native media encoding/decoding was nonsense when it first came out too.