• @NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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    685 months ago

    I would pay for AI-enhanced hardware…but I haven’t yet seen anything that AI is enhancing, just an emerging product being tacked on to everything they can for an added premium.

    • @DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca
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      275 months ago

      In the 2010s, it was cramming a phone app and wifi into things to try to justify the higher price, while also spying on users in new ways. The device may even a screen for basically no reason.
      In the 2020s, those same useless features now with a bit of software with a flashy name that removes even more control from the user, and allows the manufacturer to spy on even further the user.

    • HSR🏴‍☠️
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      95 months ago

      DLSS and XeSS (XMX) are AI and they’re noticably better than non-hardware accelerated alternatives.

    • aname
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      95 months ago

      My Samsung A71 has had devil AI since day one. You know that feature where you can mostly use fingerprint unlock but then once a day or so it ask for the actual passcode for added security. My A71 AI has 100% success rate of picking the most inconvenient time to ask for the passcode instead of letting me do my thing.

    • @PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Already had that Google thingy for years now. The USB/nvme device for image recognition. Can’t remember what it’s called now. Cost like $30.

      Edit: Google coral TPU

      • Baggins [he/him]
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        145 months ago

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

          • Baggins [he/him]
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            25 months ago

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

            • @lmaydev@lemmy.world
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              25 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

        • @lmaydev@lemmy.world
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          25 months ago

          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.

      • @Nachorella
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        15 months ago

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

        • @lmaydev@lemmy.world
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          15 months ago

          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

          • @Nachorella
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            25 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.