This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
> be me
> installed VScode to test whether language server is just unfriendly with KATE
> get bombarded with "try our AI!" type BS
> vomit.jpg
> managed to test it, but the AI turns me off
> immediately uninstalled this piece of glorified webpage from my ThinkPad
It seems I'm having to do more jobs with KATE. (Does the LSP plugin for KATE handle stuff differently from the standard in some known way?)
They said they still adding all of it. They are adding ai. Just not talking about it. Which is probably correct 😂
What a trash click bait headline. That's not how the statement "saying the quiet part out loud" works. This isn't a secret and it's not unspoken and it certainly doesn't not reveal some underlying motive.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the point of a cheap NPU is.
If you don't like AI, you don't want it.
If you do like AI, you want a big GPU or to run it on somebody else's much bigger hardware via the internet.
A cheap NPU could have some uses. If you have a background process that runs continuously, offloading the work to a low-cost NPU can save you both power and processing. Camera authorization, if you get up, it locks; if you sit down, it unlocks. No reason to burn a core or GPU for that. Security/Nanny cameras recognition. Driving systems monitoring a driver losing consciousness and pulling over. We can accomplish this all now with CPUs/GPUs, but purpose-built systems that don't drain other resources aren't a bad thing.
Of course, there's always the downside that they use that chip for recall. Or malware gets a hold of it for recall, ID theft, There's a whole lot of bad you can do with a low-cost NPU too :)
The world is healing
I'm readying for some new bullshit. I just hope it's not tech related
Does a third world war count as tech related? It certainly uses a lot of tech!
I actually do care about AI PCs. I care in the sense that it is something I want to actively avoid.
I want to run LLMs locally, or things like TTS or STT locally so it’s nice but there’s no real support rn
Most people won’t care nor use it
LLMs are best used when it’s a user choice, not a platform obligation
It doesn't confuse us... it annoys us with the blatant wrong information. e.g. glue is a pizza ingredient.
"Recall was met with serious backlash". Meanwhile I'm looking for a simple setting regarding the power button on my wife's phone and stumble upon a setting that is enabled by default that has Gemini scanning the screen and using it for whatever it is that it does, but my wife doesn't use any AI features on her device. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this basically the same as Recall? Google was just smart enough to silently roll this out.
Isn't this only triggered when user use Gemini (and the google assistant before). To use something like circle to search. I'm rather sure this already exists before AI craze
That is the assumption but that is explicitly spelled out somewhere. I'm not sure you can trust it.
Yeah, Google assistant was able to read your screen and take screenshots when asked years ago.
Stolen from BSKY
Weirdly dell always seems to understand what normal users want.
The problem is normal users have beyond low expectations, no standards and are ignorant of most everything tech related.
They want cheap and easy to use computers that require no service and if there is a problem a simple phone number to call for help.
Dell has optimized for that. So hate em or not, while their goods have gone to shit quality wise. They understand their market and have done extremely well in servicing it.
Thus I am not surprised at all dell understood this. If anything I would have been more surprised if they didn't.
I think they all understand what we want (broadly), they just don't care, because what they want is more important, and they know consumers will tolerate it.
This is extra funny to me since I just re-watched this episode the other day
Doesn't confuse me, just pisses me off trying to do things I don't need or want done. Creates problems to find solutions to
What people don't want is blackbox AI agents installed system-wide that use the carrot of "integration and efficiency" to justify bulk data collection, that the end user implicitly agrees to by logging into the OS.
God forbid people want the compute they are paying for to actually do what they want, and not work at cross purposes for the company and its various data sales clients.
God forbid people want the compute they are paying for to actually do what they want, and not work at cross purposes for the company and its various data sales clients.
I think that way of thinking is still pretty niche.
Hope it's becoming more widespread, but in my experience most people don't actually concern themselves with "my device does some stuff in the background that goes beyond what I want it for" - in their ignorance of Technology, they just assume it's something that's necessary.
I think were people have problems is mainly at the level of "this device is slower at doing what I want it to do than the older one" (for example, because AI makes it slower), "this device costs more than the other one without doing what I want it to do any better" (for example, they're unwilling to pay more for the AI functionality) or "this device does what I want it to do worse than before/that-one" (for example, AI is forced on users, actually making the experience of using that device worse, such as with Windows 11).
Holy crap that Recall app that "works by taking screenshots" sounds like such a waste of resources. How often would you even need that?
Virtually everything described in this article already exists in some way...
It's such a stupid approach to the stated problem that I just assumed it was actually meant for something else and the stated problem was to justify it. And made the decision to never use win 11 on a personal machine based on this "feature".
As time goes by I’m finding a place for AI.
I use it for information searches, but only in cases where I know the information exists and there is an actual answer. Like history questions or asking for nuanced definitions of words and concepts.
I use it to manipulate documents. I have a personal pet peeve about the format of most recipes for example. Recipes always list the ingredient amounts in a table at the top, but then down in the steps they just say “add the salt” or “mix in the flour.” Then I have to look up at the chart and find the amount of salt/flour, and then I lose my place in the steps and have to find it again. I just have AI throw out the chart and integrate the amounts into the steps: “mix in 2 cups of flour”. I can have it shorten the instructions too and break them into easier to read bullet points. I also ask it to make ingredient substitutions and other modifications. The other day I gave it a bread recipe and asked it to introduce a cold-proofing step and reformat everything the way I like. It did great.
Learning interactively. When I need to absorb a new skill or topic I sometimes do it conversationally with AI. Yes I can find articles and videos but then I am stuck with the information they lay out and the pace and order in which they do it. With AI you can stop and ask clarifying questions, or have it skip over the parts you already know. I find this is way faster than laborious googling. However only trust it for very straightforward topics. Like “explain the different kinds of welding and what they are for.” I wouldn’t trust it for more nuanced topics where perspective and opinion come into it. And I’ve leaned that it isn’t great at topics where there isn’t enough information out there. Like very niche questions about the meta of a certain video game that’s only been out a month.
Speech to text and summarization. AI records all my Zoom meetings for work and gives summaries of what was discussed and next steps. This is always better than nothing. I’m also impressed with how it seems to understand how to discard idle chit chat and only record actual work content. At most it says “the meeting began with coworkers exchanging details from their respective weekends.”
This kind of hard-and-fast summarization and manipulation of factual text is much easier with AI. Doing my job for me? No. Hovering over my entire computer? No. Writing my emails for me? Fuck off.
The takeaway is that specific tools I can go to when I need them, for point-specific needs, is all I want. I don’t need or what a hovering AI around all the time, and I don’t want whatever tripe Dell can come up with when I can get the best latest models direct from the leading players.
Assuming you keep a critical eye on the results, surely AI can be used for some meaningful things like the ways you found - thanks for sharing them. But i could bet that most people will be stuck at the BS generator level with its poisonous effects on them and the society at large.
I agree. I share my use cases mostly to put the critical thinking behind them on display. I’m sure the crowd here is very savvy. But in the general public I agree that many if not most people would be completely seduced by the obsequious & confident tone of the robot. It can do so many things that it becomes tempting to rely on it. You wish it worked better than it did, and if you let yourself get lazy, you can easily slip into trusting it too much.
Extent of my comfort with AI is through website and interaction is limited to copy and paste or upload. Capabilities not running on a system level.
But, when it comes to actually running on hardware and being able to do things by reading what is on the screen or hearing what is said I don't trust AI to be secure or privacy respecting. When it comes to that type of functionality I'll only trust ones that is compiled myself to run locally as opposed to provided by a corporations who are largely in the business of data collection.
I'd much rather have a more powerful generic CPU than a less powerful generic CPU with an added NPU.
There are very few people who would benefit from an added NPU, ok I hear you say what about local AI?
Ok, what about it?
Would you trust a commercial local AI tool to not be sharing data?
Would your grandmother be able to install an open source AI tool?
What about having enough RAM for the AI tool to run?
Look at the average computer user, if you are on lemmy, chances are very high that you are far more advanced than the average computer user.
I am talking about those users who don't run Adblocker, don't notice the YT ad skip button and who in the past would have installed a minimum of of five toolbars in IE, yet wouldn't have noticed the reduced view of the actual page.
These people are closer to the average users than any of us.
Why do they need local AI?
Just offer NPUs as PCIe extension cards. Thats how computers used to be and should be. Modular and versatile.
Why not just leave it alone inside a browser tab? If I want AI, and I use it quite a lot, I will go into their website. Don't force it system wide, just sucks