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[–] 115 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Are AI PCs the ones with insufficient RAM because the AI companies bought all the future production?

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  • [–] 94 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Stop using pointless slop no one gives a shit about as a selling point?

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  • [–] 55 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    What are you, some kind of terrorist?

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  • [–] 56 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    “AI” is not a use case for a computer. Plain and simple. A real use case would be for instance to edit videos or code or create spreadsheets, and what the everloving shit does adding ✨Agentic and Conversational AI✨fix with literally any use case?

    Sure, researching can be a use case for AI stuff, as well as just talking with it, but there’s no reason to sell an entire fucking class of laptops labeled “AI PCs” when the only thing it has is windows 11 copilot (lobotomised ChatGPT) and an NPU advertised as a “future compatibility” feature…

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    [–] 52 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    What is the average person even going to use an NPU for? There's not a whole lot of useful things that can even be run on one.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I use windows click to do all the time in work.

    I’m constantly being sent screenshots of tables with data in it that I can’t copy paste. (Side note, why take a perfectly searchable .csv and send me a screenshot of it???!!)

    The tool really is a game changer for my productivity.

    I sure as hell wouldn’t enable it on my personal computer though.

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    [+] 43 points 9 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    And it can even defuse the bomb at site B while you're making dinner.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Rather than interact with a machine, you’ll just be walking around, sipping coffee, having thoughtful conversations with a bot laughing along with your jokes as it writes your letter and does your taxes.

    So, basically the computers from Star Trek: TNG. I'd go for that, but unfortunately, what we'll get instead is enshitified AI slop which exists to suck a subscription fee out of you every month while pushing ads.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago*

    I dunno, I remember it more like, "hey computer, make a LARP/natural wonder/cozy space/sing & dance number for my real humanoid (and android) friends and I to enjoy together". When computer manifestations got regarded as worthy of personhood, it was either some exceptional case, or the story was about the character's delusion.

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  • [–] 38 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    WTF even is a Microsoft SlopC? Something that has hardware to speed up their AI deleting important files and sending your private data to hackers? I don't think we need that fast-tracked, Windows 11 already does it well enough.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    They replace the right windows key with a copilot button.

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    [–] 27 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Is amazing Microslop is still around given have shitty their products have.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    It's always baffled me how Microslop's entire business model as far back as I can remember seems to be "Make the shittiest possible version of every product imaginable, then watch it for some reason become the global standard, then make it even worse and suffer no consequences."

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    They can afford to have AI fail, almost every business in Europe and the US buys their software. That’s not going away anytime soon

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    [–] 27 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Ive seen the AI on my partners iphone. Wont be going near that shit.

    I had to correct myself from typing "iphobe" three times, and im wondering which the mistake was.

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    [–] 25 points 8 months ago

    Always glad to hear some good news :)

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    [–] 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I think it's just bad marketing. Microsoft, as they often are, just messed up their marketing strategy with mixing controversial and creepy stuff like Recall and actually useful things like local TTS and STT, translation, image recognition and manipulation stuff. All these ML functions offloaded to an NPU are good additions to an OS. Computers with NPU don't have to be Copilot+ branded to be useful.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Hmm, they might've scrambled to add Recall et al, because those other features you named don't particularly need to be offloaded. Except for maybe TTS, you're not gonna run these in the background all the time. And if you need the occasional translation, it's fine, if it takes a bit longer.

    At least, I would've absolutely seen headlines à la "Microslop wants you to buy an expensive new PC – to do things your current PC can perfectly fine".

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    You aren't wrong that these functions don't NEED NPU. But it helps with performance and offloading. What they also doing is opening APIs for software developers to use NPU and built-in models. For example, Adobe and Zoom use it for background filters. Again, with no CPU/GPU load.

    And for your final point - this is not anything new for a company to try selling you a product that you don't necessarily need. Their job is to make it attractive enough for you to upgrade.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Yes yeeeea, die ..trash!

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Is it time to invest in Quantum grifts yet or is it still too early for the next train?

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    [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I couldn't understand Microsoft's motivation here at all, until this reminder (from the linked article):

    This development doesn't bode well for Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, who saw the company miss the platform shift to mobile devices and tablets and desperately wants to avoid chalking up another failure in yet another momentous platform shift.

    it makes so much sense to me now

    emphasis on "desperately" for sure

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I just bought a laptop; my CPU options were an AMD AI 300, and a non-AI 7040. I chose þe non-AI version and saved $200.

    I really hope AMD gets it's head out of þe AI trough and keeps designing normal CPUs. Non-AI was an option today, but I worry about next year.

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