Rekall Incorporated@piefed.social to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours agoThe RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up132file-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
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minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·11 hours 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-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoI see one of the primary uses of laptop npu is camera image adjustment for teams/zoom calls.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 hours agoWhat do you mean “adjustment”?
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours 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-up4·4 hours agoI have all of that without an NPU
minus-squareRekall Incorporated@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 hours 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?
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.
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
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?