It’s reason not to buy a new PC for me. Or ever upgrade to Windows 11. I’ll wait for 12 or just go Linux.
While it sounds pretty useless, I do feel vastly more comfortable with the idea of making use of an AI assistant if it’s locally processed. I do try not to just dismiss everything new like a Luddite. That said, so far, despite all the press and attention I haven’t personally found a single use for any of the recent crop of products.and services in the past 3-4 years branded as AI. If however new use cases popup and it becomes a part of our lives in ways we didn’t expect but then can’t live without, I’d very much appreciate it running on my own metal.
I don’t think Windows’ Copilot is locally processed? Could very well be wrong but I thought it was GPT-4 which is absurd to run locally.
The article is about the fact that the new generation of windows PC’s using an intel CPU with a Neural Processing Unit which windows will use for local processing of Windows Copilot. The author thinks this is not reason enough to buy a computer with this capability.
Usually there is a massive VRAM requirement. local neural networking silicon doesn’t solve that, but using a more lightweight and limited model could.
Basically don’t expect even gpt3, but SOMETHING could be run locally.
Ugh so even less reason to think it’s worth anything.
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