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@Kyonko802 i get that microsoft starting to delve further into telemetry and shit is bad, but this is still misleading.
1. it is only available for new copilot+ laptops
2. it is all local (requires 25gb min)
3. you can just turn it off (including specific websites, and it doesn't work during private browsing)
i'd think of it less like telemetry and more like more granular restore points that an AI can delve through to provide reminders and such.
even if there wasn't an option to turn it off built in, you can rest assured there would be some way to do it with registry edits or what have you. windows 10 and 11 already have telemetry as-is that *isn't* local, and you can turn that off very easily with a powershell script.
Even assuming it works as intended, it's going to require such grotesque ram and cpu that they couldn't force it one everyone even if they wanted to
@Homosoypiens @Kyonko802 that's also probably why it's been developed for specific hardware.
@beardalaxy @Homosoypiens @Kyonko802 The long term problem here is that "adding 'AI'" to CPU chips is becoming a thing, if not a "required" thing due to AI hype/promise.
Searching on the upcoming Lunar Lake chips, Intel and perhaps others even have a new buzzphrase for it, "AI PC":
"What the AI PC is: An AI PC has a central processing unit (CPU), a graphic processing unit (GPU) and a neural processing unit (NPU), each with specific AI acceleration capabilities. An NPU is a specialized accelerator that efficiently handles AI and machine learning (ML) tasks right on your PC instead of sending data to be processed in the cloud. The AI PC is increasingly important as the need to automate, streamline and optimize tasks on the PC grows.
"Why It Matters: Lunar Lake is expected to be a groundbreaking mobile processor for AI PCs with more than 3 times the AI performance compared with the previous generation. With more than 40 NPU tera operations per second (TOPS), Intel’s next generation processors will provide the capabilities necessary for Copilot+ experiences coming to market...."
Copilot is the current major brand for Microsoft's chatbot, see also GitHub Copilot. Per the "AI" that comes with Brave Search, the Snapdragon X Elite chips which will be the first to support this new "Recall" Windows 11 feature has a 45 TOPS NPU.
@ThatWouldBeTelling @Homosoypiens @Kyonko802 Nvidia gpus already have dedicated AI cores and to great effect. It's good to be tentative about it though since there are ways it can go wrong, if over reliant. I hope it accelerates computing rather than holding it back or violating privacy.
