It will be hard to gauge this sentiment when all new PCs and Macs are AI enabled.

This is already the case with some smartphone models, particularly the iPhone.

I've had an iPhone 11 for going on 6 years and I've never used Siri. I also don't plan to use Apple Intelligence when I upgrade to the iPhone 17 this year, mostly for the 5G and better cameras.

I immediately disabled it on my M4 Mac Mini and don't know if I'll ever turn it on.

@tante

I learned that all these ML units on existing Gadgets will never work as promised and were pretty much produced for the trash bin.
Edge computing personal, private AI assistant my ass!

#AI #EdgeComputing

Saving cloud providers and CPU vendors from Moore’s law is the main promise of the AI hype.

I replaced my main laptop at the end of 2023. The old one was a late 2013 MacBook Pro (Haswell) and, for most things, it was fine. The battery life wasn’t great (even after replacing the battery) but the only things where it was slow were games (most people play games on phones now) and building LLVM (most people do not do that). The 16 GiB of RAM was tight running multiple VMs (most people do not do that). If it still got security updates, it would be a fine machine for most people.

At Azure, the most popular VM classes are the older ones, to the extent that some old ones will actually be newer Intel chips with Hyper-V disabling some new features and lying in CPUID to pretend to be a slower chip. Azure buys the new chips to get better density, but few customers care about the faster performance.

If you care about growth then you need something to convince people that they need more compute than they currently do. Behold, AI is the saviour!

Pay extra money to make it even easier to steal my personal information so you can advertise to me more effectively, for a feature I'll never use that virtually nobody is asking for?

AI is like blockchain, it's a solution looking for a problem. A lot of the things I see AI being heralded for are problems we solved with "basic" automation and some math 20 years ago for a fraction of the cost.

I hear the "pop" of a bubble bursting soon.

#AI #tech

The quotation-marks are at the wrong place, it should be

AI “benefits”

instead of

“AI” benefits

While I might find some use for the inferencing capabilities of current gen CPUs if I put in some effort I'd prefer to have it optional. There's nothing "AI" I'd use so often I'd need dedicated circuits for it, and looking at the performance improvements by iGPU alone that's more than enough. If I'd need more a dedicated GPU or even just some kind of inferencing accelerator like Coral TPU might make more sense.

That being said, I guess corps and me have different ideas of what kind of "AI" I want to run locally. I'd prefer object recognition for image organization, speech to text, translation tools, they obviously think of LLMs.

not only that, but I literally will refuse to buy, sell, use or even look at any device eith a "#CopilotKey" and/or marketed as #Copilot+ or having #Windows11 preinstalled to begin with!

• Simply because that #Govware is incompatible with my #standards like #GDPR & #BDSG...

If I had the €€€€€€ necessary to do it I'd start an #upcycling business (likely as cooperative) just to collect all the #surplus'd machines and put modern #Linux on them and sell those at rock-bottom pricing.

Maybe Intel should go back to selling chips and NUC’s. They go back to selling computers that people want.

They might have some good sales for a change

The thread for the article had several people arguing that all software will soon include AI and people are foolishly rejecting the hardware to support it.

That utterly misses the point that most people dislike generative AI.

Personally I feel that the use of generative AI is an atrocity and a deliberate assault on culture and human dignity, and I refuse to use it. I'd quit working in IT if I have to, to get away from it.

I noticed that if you ask Google a question it gives you an AI answer at the top of the page... Using vast quantities of electricity to generate that super duper answer instead of providing a link to a web page on the subject... People that make web pages have experienced a lot less traffic because the AI answer is often enough for the web surfer... Anyway: you can prevent Google from displaying an AI answer by typing minus sign AI anywhere in the question...

-AI

@trogluur

"Intel has tried to position itself at the forefront of the AI PC revolution, but based on the company's latest financial report, it looks like that revolution isn't happening yet."

And will not happen within the life of Sam Altman

It is all a grift

#AI #CheatGPT

"I used AI to..." is the new "Listen, I'm not an asshole but..."

#FuckAI