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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How did this thread blow up so much?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

sometimes a thread breaks containment, the "all" algorithm feeds it to even more people, and we see that Lemmy really does replace Reddit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

What is even the point of an AI coprocessor for an end user (excluding ML devs)? Most of the AI features run in the cloud and even if they could run locally, companies are very happy to ask you rent for services and keep you vendor locked in.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Please stop shoving ai into everything,please give us opt out from AI icons and stuff /srs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

even better: opt-in, over opt-out

none of these fuckers want to go for that, because it'd make their darling shitpile look oh so bad

but it's also a stark thing: ~20y ago tech actually asked first, and (mostly) fucked off if you told it to

the way a lot of tech companies approach consent (and how users have been primed following that) right now is some mad toxic fucked up bullshit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What the hell is an AI computer? Like one with a beefy GPU?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"coprocessors, but matrix-math specific"

the various *PUs are "things that help a lot of ML models run faster" sidecar chipset designs

it's actually kinda hard to get concrete details, afaict. I've had a bit of a look around for silicon teardowns and shit, and haven't really found any good ones yet

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I bet they're not even special, just normal computers with some low-power AI soft and a chunky price tag to match the hardware they totally sport.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

nah, there's definitely an actual something there - there's concrete actual physical extra silicon, with a design and a (marketing?) purpose

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

These "AI Computers" are a solution looking for a problem. The marketing people naming these "AI" computers think that AI is just some magic fairy dust term you can add to a product and it will increase demand.

What's the "killer features" of these new laptops, and what % price increase is it worth?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

What’s the “killer features” of these new laptops

LLM

and what % price increase is it worth?

negative eighty, tops

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am prepping my laptop to have it installed. I think Mint will be my distro.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Great Distro from what I hear. I made it easy for me to play Steam games quickly by installing Pop!Os. You can do the same things anyway on any Distro you pick. I just don't mess with Arch. I don't got time for that lol.

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