Dell promises 'every PC is going to be an AI PC' whether you like it or not
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Personally I'm a little scared because it will probably end with proprietary closed source implementations in hardware and software that relentlessly send all of my interactions via internet to the vendor anyway.
On the other hand hopefully someone manages to exploit the hardware.
Having fast matrix multiplication available would be great but I guess nobody will bother.
Ain't the point of this to have the compute capabilities at the edge, so data doesn't have to leave the device?
Also, how that transfer would even work? magically bits would be sent without anyone seeing them?
I think the “every PC” is the obvious headline grabbing statement from the VP. At the business end, Dell has made machines for every type including the Linux only Ubuntu pre-installed XPS line, which were highly recommended when they came out. This is just them covering the AI consumer base.
I imagine (or hope/wish) that there will remain a market for machines that don't include this. I don't see a day when I'll be using AI systems on my own machines, and I don't want to pay for hardware support that I'll never use.
Actually before finishing this comment I changed my mind. Windows will collect and send all that data to Microsoft regardless whether it runs client-side or server side. Client side shifts the electricity and cloud bill to the user, so that's a big win. It's also hardware that can get obsolete and need to be replaced, which means future sales.
Ignore me, I have no idea what to think.
AI doesn't necessarily mean generative, but there are tons of places that a little specialized accelerated chipset would have been used in decades past that maybe now we can abstract to a little GAN+ chip that might be costlier on other hardware.
Think more "assistive technologies to help stabilize mice or correct typing in people with motor function disabilities" than "the spyware that copied me". ...Hopefully.
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To be clear, I don't think that's going to be the case, which is why I started my comment with "Dell wishes".
This is a feature that will be in every new PC once these new CPUs become the baseline.
It's a useful feature for most people. Being able to search my photo library on my Mac for "car" to find that photo of a car I found parked weirdly last week is something I do all the time, and not having to upload all my photos to Google in order to enable it is actually a good thing.
I dont understand, like... why bother?
You check what CPU instruction or what "tiles" your CPU has in order to decide which CPU has too much specialized stuff that you dont need?
If it exists but doesn't cost more money, doesn't increase complexity, energy use, etc., then I don't care one way or another.
Then there's possibility that removing it could increase cost, who knows?
Regardless, if that's the way things are going, then obviously I'll deal with it. In the meantime, though, this will certainly be a factor in my purchasing decisions as long as I continue to have a choice.
Nowadays, we're running against barriers from the end of Dennard scaling, which prevent chips from operating at 100% utilization and all but forces us to start including more specialized units that will only be used for some tasks.
It's not unreasonable to expect AI hardware processing units to be standard in future CPUs or chipsets.