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[–] PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Don't you need specific CPUs for these AI features? If so, how is this going to work on the machines that don't support it?

[–] sacredbirdman@kbin.social 60 points 5 months ago

Nope, they can use your NPU, GPU or CPU whatever you have.. the performance will vary quite a bit though. Also, the larger the model the more memory it needs to run well.

[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago (1 children)

With it being local it’s probably a small and limited model. I took a couple courses on machine learning years ago (before it got rebranded as “AI”), and you’d be surprised at how well a basic image recognition model can run on the lowest-spec macbook from 2012.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tbh the inversion of typical intuition that is LLMs taking orders of magnitudes more memory than computer vision can mess people unfamiliar up on estimates of the hardware required

[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah that’s very true.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 22 points 5 months ago

You only need lots of precessing power to train the models. Using the models can be done on regular hardware.

[–] space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 months ago

Running AI models isn't that resource intensive. Training the models is the difficult part.

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

The feature will obviously just be disabled on machines that don't support it.