[HN Gopher] Dell promises 'every PC is going to be an AI PC' whe...
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Dell promises 'every PC is going to be an AI PC' whether you like
it or not
Author : rntn
Score : 15 points
Date : 2024-02-26 18:43 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theregister.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com)
| JohnFen wrote:
| Dell wishes!
|
| 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.
| freedomben wrote:
| I suspect Dell isn't going to be all that correct. No way that
| Microsoft is going to give up server-side processing and all
| the sweet sweet data it entails.
|
| 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.
| Koshkin wrote:
| But the hardware is already here!
|
| https://www.macobserver.com/tips/deep-dive/what-is-apple-neu...
| JohnFen wrote:
| That's only for Apple products, which is fine because I don't
| have to use Apple products. I'm not objecting to machines
| that have "AI hardware" in them. There are people who want
| that. I'm objecting to the idea that _all_ machines will have
| such hardware in them.
|
| To be clear, I don't think that's going to be the case, which
| is why I started my comment with "Dell wishes".
| tester756 wrote:
| >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.
|
| 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?
| JohnFen wrote:
| It's what I said in my comment: if I'm not going to use it, I
| don't want to have to pay for it.
|
| 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.
| tester756 wrote:
| Well, since it is huge manufacturing at scale
|
| Then there's possibility that removing it could increase
| cost, who knows?
| janderland wrote:
| I wonder if people felt this way about integrated GPUs. I
| wouldn't be surprised to see integrated AI hardware become
| standard in the same way.
| nisa wrote:
| AI is the new multimedia (yes I'm old, I remember it was all the
| hype in the 90ies) - the word already lost any meaning for
| consumer products anyway.
|
| 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.
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