News AMD confirms AI NPU monitoring is coming to Windows Task Manager

[Admin]

AMD confirmed that it is working on getting monitoring support for its XDNA/XDNA2 AI NPUs to work with Windows Task Manager — coming soon.

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[Amdlova]

"IA" backdoors

 

[usertests]

"IA" backdoors

It's interesting because it can cut both ways.

Having dedicated machine learning hardware on your machine can allow you to run "AI" stuff locally, with no connection to remote machines where your data is being slurped. You can play with your uncensored local LLMs or Stable Diffusion generation. Maybe it can be used for locally run voice-activated assistants (like Mycroft instead of Alexa) and so on.

On the other hand, now there's a low-power accelerator that most people may not use 99% of the time, that can be used to do inference tasks in the background to spy on the machine, without taking up other resources. Instead of reporting to the spy cloud constantly, it can wait until it analyzes something suspicious or illegal and send the evidence in one burst. Maybe malware could be programmed to use it to give itself more adaptability than before, again without noticeably impacting system usage and battery life.

So really, not much will change. People with low understanding of their computer/OS will get screwed by it.

 

[Joseph_138]

It's interesting because it can cut both ways.

Having dedicated machine learning hardware on your machine can allow you to run "AI" stuff locally, with no connection to remote machines where your data is being slurped. You can play with your uncensored local LLMs or Stable Diffusion generation. Maybe it can be used for locally run voice-activated assistants (like Mycroft instead of Alexa) and so on.

On the other hand, now there's a low-power accelerator that most people may not use 99% of the time, that can be used to do inference tasks in the background to spy on the machine, without taking up other resources. Instead of reporting to the spy cloud constantly, it can wait until it analyzes something suspicious or illegal and send the evidence in one burst. Maybe malware could be programmed to use it to give itself more adaptability than before, again without noticeably impacting system usage and battery life.

So really, not much will change. People with low understanding of their computer/OS will get screwed by it.

You know people will be using it to generate AI nudes, without having to log in to a website, right?

 

[usertests]

You know people will be using it to generate AI nudes, without having to log in to a website, right?

They have already been doing it for over a year now so yeah.

It's kind of mind boggling that Stable Diffusion has only been out for about 18 months.