> no serious ML research will use it for training anything else than toy models
They will use it to edit code, deploy and remotely run jobs. Serious deep learning on laptops is a non-starter, on any laptop, on account of heat dissipation.
They will use it to edit code, deploy and remotely run jobs. Serious deep learning on laptops is a non-starter, on any laptop, on account of heat dissipation.
Being able to do light stuff on one's own consumer hardware without having to buy something new is still incredibly helpful to students and other people trying to learn, as well as hobbyists though.
Training Tesla's FSD neural net on a laptop? A student training some models for courses or self study?
Serious schools have computing clusters. ML researchers might be interested to know which undergrad is actually training models complex enough to benefit from better hardware.