Honestly, it’s an exciting feature. I just don’t trust anyone to build it, or even myself to keep it safe.
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hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I wonder why are they so invested into this “feature”.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Up front disclaimer: this is all conjure on my part.
I own an “AI” laptop (only because I was interested in a snapdragon x). Most of the AI enabled features don’t really require a NPU, such as a decent background camera blur, some paint and photo stuff, live captions, etc. Microsoft was looking for a headline feature that didn’t already have a CPU/GPU/cloud implementation. Enter: recal.
IMO this is very much about finding a novel feature, that doesn’t have an alternate implementation. The near term motive is to justify their “AI” PCs to customers in hops that customers adopt them. I suspect the long term goal is opening up a revenue stream for AI - get customers used to “AI enabled” features and then tack a subscription cost onto them, but I truly hope this won’t be the case - especially when the hardware you own has a NPU.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
I find npus dumb just to boost ai performance what the hell a cpu and gpu is enough
linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Building a fully trained model on user preferences/habits is the holy grail of marketing.
You can infer user intelligence, addictive personalities, and vices. You can couple that with income and likelihood to spend.
When you pull that kind of data from email or even from web browsing, you don’t get the kind of depth that you can get from a trained model.
There’s models with all your habits and preferences, they’re worth serious money. And that’s why Microsoft is pushing so hard to make sure you log in with a online account.