Intel’s Q1 2025 earnings press release talked up their new AI-enabled chips. But these are not selling. [Intel] In the earnings call, CFO Dave Zinsner mentioned they had “capacity constraints in In…
  • lacaio da inquisição@lemmy.eco.br
    1·
    3 minutes ago

    From what I understand, this is the trend because Apple Silicon works. It has well integrated GPU with CPU with great memory for AI tasks on a minimal case. You can run DeepSeek (the 671B one) on it. Who wouldn’t want that? The problem is that those companies hardware, specifically the firmware, is not to be trusted.

    Imagine a world where you would have to jailbreak everything on your PC for it to work. I think that’s what they’re going for. AI is really useful, and if they can make something like Mac Studio cheaper, it has obvious value.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 hour ago

    What benefit is there?

    AI basically takes what I already see in search results and tries to make it a conversational summary. I don’t want a conversation or to read a made-up wiki summary, just give me the correct and pertinent result. Problem is that they put AI first and search result quality has been deteriorating for years, so two wrongs don’t mean forcing it on users is right.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    1 hour ago

    The hype around this shit is astounding. That people who make decisions about products from huge brands keep buying in is shocking to me. How can something so useless (to most people) capture the imagination of educated and intelligent people? It’s a sign of how broken capitalism is. Rational thought is replaced by fear of missing out.

  • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    12 hours ago

    I thought that was pretty obvious by now? Based on how much the companies are trying force feed people their latest version through constant notifications about assistants, assisted search, etc.

    It’s one of the greatest flaws of relying on social media for market research: Tech-bros being overly loud about things like AI, NFTs, etc. trick companies into thinking more people are interested.

    Now they’ve invested tons of money and people aren’t biting, so they’re constantly nagging people to engage so they can justify their expenditure.

      • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
        18·
        11 hours ago

        Basically:

        Intel, AMD, and Microsoft are all going down a dead-end road called x86_64, especially on portable devices.

        Apple and Google took a turn ages ago, towards an alternative called aarch64. Originally just for phones, but now for everything.

        VR headsets, Raspberry Pis, IoT devices, etc. also tend to run aarch or aarch64.

        Microsoft has been trying to follow suit, but it hasn’t gone well so far. Windows for ARM (the aarch64 version of Windows) is supremely unpopular, for a lot of (mostly good) reasons.

        So people avoid the devices or ditch them because none of their apps run natively. But Microsoft basically has no choice but to keep pushing.

        So the end result is, Microsoft is subsidizing tons of excellent hardware that will never be used for Windows cuz it’s just not ready yet.

        But Linux is!

        Edit:

        Funny thing is, ARM (company behind aarch64) keeps shooting themselves in the foot, to the point where lots of companies are hedging their bets with a dark horse called RISC-V that never had a snowball’s chance in Hell before, but now could possibly win.

        And if Microsoft still hasn’t built a new home on aarch64 by the time that happens, they may accidentally be in the best position to capitalize on it.

        • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
          3·
          2 hours ago

          RiscV to CPU is what Linux is to OS

          It will win in the end because closed source corpo trash will always enshitify and erode its market position. Just like micro-shit is the best marketer for Linux

      • Grappling7155@lemmy.ca
        11·
        12 hours ago

        ARM architecture 64 bit. It’s the style of CPU in your phone and MacBooks, known for being energy efficient and it’s performance is getting better too.

        The big downside though is that loads of old Windows apps aren’t going to run on these as effortlessly as they would on conventional x86-64 CPUs from Intel and AMD.

          • Squizzy@lemmy.world
            1·
            34 minutes ago

            The phones is the hardest one, there just is no practical alternatives to the main two. Even degoogling is centered around pixels and other mainstream brands.

            I am looking at Nothing at the moment, I want something green and private.

      • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.network
        23·
        12 hours ago

        OK, so I ran this past a techie colleague. Here’s how he summarized this for me.

        • @jagged_circle@feddit.nl is drawing a superficial parrallel between CPU speculation and LLM/AI unpredictability without acknowledging the crucial differences in determinism, transparency, and user experience.
        • He’s relying on the likelihood that others in the conversation may not know the technical details of “CPU speculation”, allowing him to sound authoritative and dismissive (“this is old news, you just don’t get it”).
        • By invoking an obscure technical concept and presenting it as a “gotcha,” he positions himself as the more knowledgeable, sophisticated participant, implicitly belittling others’ concerns as naïve or uninformed.

        He is in short using bad faith argumentation. He’s not engaging with the actual objection (AI unpredictability and user control), but instead is derailing the conversation with a misleading-to-flatly-invalid analogy that serves more to showcase his own purported expertise than to clarify or resolve the issue.

        The techniques he’s using are:

        • Jargon as Gatekeeping:
          Using technical jargon or niche knowledge to shut down criticism or skepticism, rather than to inform or educate.

        • False Equivalence:
          Pretending two things are the same because they share a superficial trait, when their real-world implications and mechanics are fundamentally different.

        • Intellectual One-upmanship:
          The goal isn’t to foster understanding, but to “win” the exchange and reinforce a sense of superiority.

        Explaining his bad objection in plain English, he’s basically saying “You’re complaining about computers guessing? Ha! They’ve always done that, you just don’t know enough to appreciate it.” But in reality, he’s glossing over the fact that:

        • CPU speculation is deterministic, traceable, and (usually) invisible to the user.

        • LLM/AI “guessing” is probabilistic, opaque, and often the source of user frustration.

        • The analogy is invalid, and the rhetorical move is more about ego than substance.

        TL;DR: @jagged_circle@feddit.nl is using his technical knowledge not to clarify, but to obfuscate and assert dominance in the conversation without regard to truth, a pretty much straightforward techbrodude move.

        • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
          14·
          2 hours ago

          How do you think I’m grifting?

          Speculation caused huge security issues. Both of these technologies cause enormous harm.

          • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.network
            1·
            57 minutes ago

            Dude, in case my breakdown of your argumentation style didn’t make it clear: piss off. You’re a dishonest grifter with no opinion anybody should be paying attention to. Your parents should be ashamed of their accidental conception of you. AND you’re stupid enough to push AI bullshit in a group literally called “Fuck AI”.

            Go away. Your mother is calling you.

            …

            Oops. She just called you something else.

            • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
              11·
              43 minutes ago

              Be nice and learn to read. I said speculation is bad. I didn’t grift for AI. Its also bad.

  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
    201·
    20 hours ago

    I’m waiting for all AI “features” to be isolated onto a single chip which I can just reach into the case with a pair of plyers and crush into dust

    • techt@lemmy.world
      61·
      17 hours ago

      Then you’d juat have to deal with errors from processes expecting it to be there. Probably better to instead not use software that implements it, which I assume you’re doing anyway.

  • whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    103·
    11 hours ago

    Can’t wait to buy a used laptop with an NPU and a bunch of ram for my home lab to run private LLMs on. Just gotta be patient. 🙃

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
    4·
    20 hours ago

    As they write in the article… What’s a compelling app? In fact what even uncompelling software (copilot aside) makes use of this?

  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
    25·
    13 hours ago

    This isnt really a good thing. It means that consumers prefer to use cloud AI (which is a privacy nightmare) compared to running a local LLM, which is more privacy preserving

    • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      12 hours ago

      1. It was proven years ago that the average consumer doesn’t give two shits about privacy on the internet.

      2. The average consumer doesn’t use knowingly use LLMs/“AI” for anything beyond a replacement for a search engine.

    • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.network
      71·
      12 hours ago

      That’s a really weird take. Like really weird, because it presupposes that everybody wants to use degenerative AI at all.

      Which is emphatically not the case. There’s even studies showing that most people play with degenerative AI for a while, all impressed by it, before trailing off as it turns out that it kind of sucks at everything people try to use it for.

      Degenerative AI is the crypto/web3 of the current set of techbrodude nitwits. A solution in search of a problem. And it will go the way of crypto/web3.

      • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
        11·
        2 hours ago

        Works great for improving my ability to produce graphics. Where accuracy of information isn’t important (eg art), it has uses.