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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Their deluded vision is that they think the traditional user interface is going away. 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.
And it can even defuse the bomb at site B while you're making dinner.
Wake me when it can plant a bomb at site B while I'm making dinner
The dream of lonely boring tech douches
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.
Same boat for me. In addition all those AI CPUs were requiring DDR5, sometimes DDR5X, soldered to the board. Same with the WiFi, only SSDs were replaceable.
“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…
I use AI quite a bit for when I have to deal with something again that doesn't have a simple documentation or stack overflow / reddit thread, and I know all too well I will never need agentic anything.
The one most useful AI for coding is supermaven, which is literally just auto complete plus but it doesn't just do things, it works like any other tab completion.
Pretty sure no software dev at windows has ever really given these things a proper workout and still found them essential. Windows is really out here advertising Linux.
Are AI PCs the ones with insufficient RAM because the AI companies bought all the future production?
I think that ram hasn't been made yet for AI centers that haven't been made yet.
Stop using pointless slop no one gives a shit about as a selling point?
What are you, some kind of terrorist?
If terrorist now means defending the customer's right then I am a terrorist!
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.
They replace the right windows key with a copilot button.
My work PC has this, and it is thankfully fully disabled by group policy. Thanks Microsoft!
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.
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.
Maybe you're aware and it doesn't fit your need, but in case not: there's a snipping to ocr tool provided with PowerToys. Win+shift+T and select a zone, il ocr it and puts it in your clipboard. Good stuff. There's also NormCap that does the same : https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/
Hey thanks! I’ll check them out!
OCR exists and performs well with older hardware.
Collecting your raw data isn’t enough for Microsoft so they might use your PC and power to process your data.
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.
Well that's just the predictive text... mine thinks thr is the proper spelling of the cause it 'learned' from all my typos that I like that spelling, even going to far as to autocorrect the to thr
Its my fat thumbs.
I’ve got and that corrects to annd now most of the time, except when I’m actively trying to write the type in which case it reverts to the actual spelling. Absolutely garbage autocorrect.
I don’t even have the AI shit. I stopped updating before 18 dropped, even tho my phone is only a couple years old, so I would never have to deal with it.
iphobe
"Being afraid of Apple"
Also known as: being a doctor.
This is also AI in some sense. Autosuggestion and auto completions are probability based algorithms, just like AI is.
Also, this is captured on GrapheneOS.
In the broadest sense of the term ”AI” yes, but people don’t mean general ML or NN approaches when they say that, it’s all LLMs and diffusion models. I hate the term for how meaningless it is
I kind of know. Dont use that either.