What is an AI PC and do you actually need one?

[Admin]

There are many ways that PC vendors are defining an AI PC. Here's how to cut through the noise (and figure out if you need one).

What is an AI PC and do you actually need one? : Read more

 

[USAFRet]

"...do you actually need one?"

Did you need one yesterday? No?
Then you probably don't need one today.

 

[Findecanor]

This must be the first time I think that "Betteridge's law of headlines" applies atTom's Hardware.

 

[mac_angel]

I see this as being the greatest spyware tech ever in the history of computers

 

[ThomasKinsley]

There's only one AI I am interested in: fully offline, customizable, trainable, and reproduceable. If it's pinging servers or doing AI work on data centers, then it's inefficient, not offline, and not trainable. I want to own my own AI, not use someone else's work.

 

[USAFRet]

There's only one AI I am interested in: fully offline, customizable, trainable, and reproduceable. If it's pinging servers or doing AI work on data centers, then it's inefficient, not offline, and not trainable. I want to own my own AI, not use someone else's work.

Unfortunately, that is what AI is trained on...everyone elses work.
Unless you have a copy of the entire internet, and update it continually, what you seek can't be done.

 

[ThomasKinsley]

Unfortunately, that is what AI is trained on...everyone elses work.
Unless you have a copy of the entire internet, and update it continually, what you seek can't be done.

Ambiguous wording on my part. I meant someone else's restrictions. AI today will say it can't do something for you because you crossed a theoretical line that its corporation drew. I want my AI to be unfiltered or to have the filters that I set.

 

[USAFRet]

Ambiguous wording on my part. I meant someone else's restrictions. AI today will say it can't do something for you because you crossed a theoretical line that its corporation drew. I want my AI to be unfiltered or to have the filters that I set.

And some of those corporate filters and restrictions have been circumvented, to produce some truly horrendous results.

Out in the wild, people will be asshats.

 

[ezst036]

AI PCs are what Microsoft needs you to have because they are not yet showing you enough advertisements.

You need to see more advertisements inside of Windows OS. AI will further allow them to do that.

Thanks Microsoft!

 

[ivan_vy]

Ambiguous wording on my part. I meant someone else's restrictions. AI today will say it can't do something for you because you crossed a theoretical line that its corporation drew. I want my AI to be unfiltered or to have the filters that I set.

I'm a crappy artist and a lazy writer, I want to train my own AI bot to help me churn and complete my own work with my ideas as basis.

 

[oofdragon]

This huge article has zero mention of what AI PC actually do different, horrible. Meanwhile people in the know have already called out what it is, another Trojan horse marketed as a feature

 

[DS426]

Has anyone seen online what all these hardware component vendors are saying an AI PC is? No one has the same response, and somehow now any component can be an AI component necessary to make a PC an "AI PC", e.g. AI PSU's, AI RAM, AI SSD's, and so on.

It truly shows that AI has gone beyond being a tech buzzword, somehow become an extremely marketable, dollar-grabbing married two letters with absolutely no humility. It's embarrassing to see how aggressively it is marketed, some surprising and others certainly not. It's like snake oil's ultimate baby, lmao!

So for me, anyone asking "what is an AI PC" requires another question to get any kind of narrowed-down answer: "An AI PC by who's definition?" The PC doesn't belong to any one organization, so naturally, the answers are as broad as the PC ecosystem is. The only thing for certain is that it's a marketing term, at least today and probably through the rest of this year.

BTW, the author didn't seem to clarify on NPU TOPS and total system TOPS.