Wow the Microsoft article really is a mess. I honed in on a promise made about “AI PCs” and was initially interested in a promise to do local translation (perhaps of un-subtitled foreign films or news?)
AI PCs are powered by a turbocharged neural processing unit (NPU) [that] performs more than 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS)… This matters because:
AI tasks, like real-time translation, image generation, and intelligent search, run locally instead of requiring the cloud
Responses feel faster and smoother
Your battery lasts longer
(Responses are “faster and smoother” and the battery lasts “longer”… compared to what? Surely those magical cloud AI solutions can go faster and offload AI processing, something Microsoft seems to be jockeying for anyway.)
Never mind that technicality. I want local translation. And my PC can do an AI, I thought, until I realized the definition of “AI PCs” is mixed with a more exclusionary selection of CoPilot+ PCs:
Some of the tools listed, including Recall and Live Captions with Translations, are only available on Copilot+ PCs with an NPU capable of 40 TOPS performance (or better).
Wow the Microsoft article really is a mess. I honed in on a promise made about “AI PCs” and was initially interested in a promise to do local translation (perhaps of un-subtitled foreign films or news?)
(Responses are “faster and smoother” and the battery lasts “longer”… compared to what? Surely those magical cloud AI solutions can go faster and offload AI processing, something Microsoft seems to be jockeying for anyway.)
Never mind that technicality. I want local translation. And my PC can do an AI, I thought, until I realized the definition of “AI PCs” is mixed with a more exclusionary selection of CoPilot+ PCs: