Microsoft has gone all-in with its plans to turn the Windows PC into an AI-powered 'agentic OS.' But at least one PC maker says consumers aren't buying the Copilot hype.
  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    36·
    28 days ago

    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.

    • degen@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      28 days ago

      The fuck even is an NPU? Is it like a NUC? I guess at least the N in NPU actually means something but I still hate this.

      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        5·
        28 days ago

        It stands for Neural Processing Unit. It’s a processor for running AI. They multiply lots of small numbers really quickly.

        • degen@midwest.socialEnglish
          1·
          24 days ago

          I know what it stands for, it just seems kind of unnecessary and dumb. Maybe there were people saying the same things about GPUs back in the day, idk

    • valkyre09@lemmy.world
      41·
      28 days ago

      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.

      • deleted@lemmy.world
        20·
        28 days ago

        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.

      • pegazz@lemmy.world
        8·
        28 days ago

        Maybe you’re aware and it doesn’t fit your need, but in case not: there’s a snipping to ocr tool provided with PowerToys. Win+shift+T and select a zone, il ocr it and puts it in your clipboard. Good stuff. There’s also NormCap that does the same : https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/