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Poll shows 84% of PC users unwilling to pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware (videocardz.com)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I use it heavily at work nowadays. It would be nice to run it locally.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You don't need AI enhanced hardware for that, just normal ass hardware and you run AI software on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But you can run more complex networks faster. Which is what I want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm just not understanding what AI-enabled hardware is even supposed to mean

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's hardware specifically designed for running AI tasks. Like neural networks.

An NPU, or Neural Processing Unit, is a dedicated processor or processing unit on a larger SoC designed specifically for accelerating neural network operations and AI tasks. Unlike general-purpose CPUs and GPUs, NPUs are optimized for a data-driven parallel computing, making them highly efficient at processing massive multimedia data like videos and images and processing data for neural networks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/huggingface/candle

You can look into this, however it’s not what this discussion is about

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

An NPU, or Neural Processing Unit, is a dedicated processor or processing unit on a larger SoC designed specifically for accelerating neural network operations and AI tasks.

Exactly what we are talking about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Stick to the discussion of paying a premium for hardware not the software

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Not sure what you mean? The hardware runs the software tasks more efficiently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The discussion is whether people should/would pay extra for hardware designed around ai vs just getting better hardware

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm curious what you use it for at work.

[–] the_crotch 1 points 4 months ago

Not the guy you were asking but it's great for writing powershell scripts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm a programmer so when learning a new framework or library I use it as an interactive docs that allows follow up questions.

I also use it to generate things like regex and SQL queries.

It's also really good at refactoring code and other repetitive tasks like that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

it does seem like a good translator for the less human readable stuff like regex and such. I've dabbled with it a bit but I'm a technical artist and haven't found much use for it in the things I do.