Their deluded vision is that they think the traditional user interface is going away. Rather than interact with a machine, you’ll just be walking around, sipping coffee, having thoughtful conversations with a bot laughing along with your jokes as it writes your letter and does your taxes.
“AI” is not a use case for a computer. Plain and simple. A real use case would be for instance to edit videos or code or create spreadsheets, and what the everloving shit does adding ✨Agentic and Conversational AI✨fix with literally any use case?
Sure, researching can be a use case for AI stuff, as well as just talking with it, but there’s no reason to sell an entire fucking class of laptops labeled “AI PCs” when the only thing it has is windows 11 copilot (lobotomised ChatGPT) and an NPU advertised as a “future compatibility” feature…
I use AI quite a bit for when I have to deal with something again that doesn’t have a simple documentation or stack overflow / reddit thread, and I know all too well I will never need agentic anything.
The one most useful AI for coding is supermaven, which is literally just auto complete plus but it doesn’t just do things, it works like any other tab completion.
Pretty sure no software dev at windows has ever really given these things a proper workout and still found them essential. Windows is really out here advertising Linux.
Are AI PCs the ones with insufficient RAM because the AI companies bought all the future production?
I think that ram hasn’t been made yet for AI centers that haven’t been made yet.
Stop using pointless slop no one gives a shit about as a selling point?
What are you, some kind of terrorist?
If terrorist now means defending the customer’s right then I am a terrorist!
WTF even is a Microsoft SlopC? Something that has hardware to speed up their AI deleting important files and sending your private data to hackers? I don’t think we need that fast-tracked, Windows 11 already does it well enough.
They replace the right windows key with a copilot button.
My work PC has this, and it is thankfully fully disabled by group policy. Thanks Microsoft!
Ive seen the AI on my partners iphone. Wont be going near that shit.
I had to correct myself from typing “iphobe” three times, and im wondering which the mistake was.
Well that’s just the predictive text… mine thinks thr is the proper spelling of the cause it ‘learned’ from all my typos that I like that spelling, even going to far as to autocorrect the to thr
Its my fat thumbs.
I’ve got and that corrects to annd now most of the time, except when I’m actively trying to write the type in which case it reverts to the actual spelling. Absolutely garbage autocorrect.
I don’t even have the AI shit. I stopped updating before 18 dropped, even tho my phone is only a couple years old, so I would never have to deal with it.
This is also AI in some sense. Autosuggestion and auto completions are probability based algorithms, just like AI is.
Also, this is captured on GrapheneOS.
I kind of know. Dont use that either.
iphobe
“Being afraid of Apple”
Also known as: being a doctor.
What is the average person even going to use an NPU for? There’s not a whole lot of useful things that can even be run on one.
I use windows click to do all the time in work.
I’m constantly being sent screenshots of tables with data in it that I can’t copy paste. (Side note, why take a perfectly searchable .csv and send me a screenshot of it???!!)
The tool really is a game changer for my productivity.
I sure as hell wouldn’t enable it on my personal computer though.
OCR exists and performs well with older hardware.
Collecting your raw data isn’t enough for Microsoft so they might use your PC and power to process your data.
