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I kind of makes sense to produce computers that are able to run local AI. People here hate AI, but there are a lot of tasks that make a lot of sense even on a laptop. It's great to produce tags and descriptions for your images. Google Photo has this - search for "horse" and you will get back all pictures of horses you have taken. And it totally makes sense to run stuff like this locally on your own computer without sending every picture you've taken to Trumpland.
But I really do not trust Microsoft to build something like that. That would totally go against everything they have been doing for the last decade and would also devalue their billions they've put into OpenAI
The issue is that to the extent that might even make sense, no major player is actually doing anything to help that happen. Every big player is exclusively focused on taking AI use cases into their datacenters, because that's the way to maintain control and demand subscriptions.
If you did do it, then the users would complain that the 'AI feature' as executed on their puny NPU is really slow compared to what the online alternative does.
So that scenario is a hypothetical, and they are trying to make sales based on now. 'AI PC' doesn't make any sense because people imagine what you describe, but in reality just cannot tell a difference because nothing works any differently for their 'AI experience'. Their experience is going to be a few niche Windows features work that most people don't even know about or would want.
Does google photos really index photos locally? I somehow don't believe that.
I'm very sure Google does not
No, it doesn't. But that is totally something that should run locally on your own devices.
Maybe you want to edit your original comment. It looks like you're claiming it does.
If I’m using AI, I definitely prefer something that runs locally and doesn’t have a surveillance capitalist business model. I also don’t want my compute resources wasted on stupid shit I don’t want.