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Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Setting up a local model was specifically about people who take privacy and security seriously because that often requires sacrificing convenience, which in this case would be having to build a suitable server and learning the necessary know-how of setting up your own local model. Casual consumers don't really think about privacy so they're going to go with the most convenient option, which is whatever service the major players will provide.

As for Dell keeping the NPUs I forgot they're going to be bundled with processors.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

My general point is that discussing the intricacies of potential local AI model usage is way over the head of the people that would even in theory care about the facile "AI PC" marketing message. Since no one is making it trivial for the casual user to actually do anything with those NPUs, then it's all a moot point for this sort of marketing. Even if there were an enthusiast market that would use those embedded NPUs without a distinct more capable infrastructure, they wouldn't be swayed/satisfied with just 'AI PC' or 'Copilot+', they'd want to know specs rather than a boolean yes/no for 'AI'.