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It is going to take at least five years before local AI is user-friendly enough and with performant hardware circulating, that ordinary folks would consider buying an AI machine.

I have a top-end DDR4 gaming rig. It takes a long time for 100b sized AI to give some roleplaying output, at least forty minutes for my settings via KoboldCPP with a GGUF. I don't think a typical person would want to wait more than 2 minutes for a good response. So we will need at least DDR6 era devices before it is practical for everyday people.

The 'quiet part out loud' isn't being used how it should be

Microsoft appears to genuinely believe that AI features are what customers want even if they don't directly ask for it, nobody asked for Google's AI feature but it's hugely popular, people freakin love it (except here on Lemmy of course where it's the devil), Google see that users are staying on their site longer and not clicking through to sites as much which is a win for them and a win for users

A real quiet part out loud would be 'Microsoft knows its users don't like its AI features but don't care because Windows isn't a money maker for them compared to Microsoft Copilot 365'

if “I” were the one confused, then AI would actually be USEFUL.

Confuses them?

Disappointing that the new XPS doesn't use CAMM2