Posted on 03/14/2025 12:48:38 PM PDT by Red Badger
Then we got VT100s and it was waaaay easier and fun...
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I got my boss to get us one in our office.
Saved many 1/4 mile one-way trips to feed card decks into the mainframe.
Does it boot DOS? There’s your test for a YADM (yet another dos machine).
Something here is not adding up. AI needs so much power nuclear power plants will be needed to supply it verses it will soon be on your laptop.
However, there are benefits to having an AI do its processing locally, right on your computer.
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Sounds good, so far . . .
But I thought AI searched and analyzed a lot of data to get their analysis.
Is this data supposed to be on my computer? It is pretty vacant right now. Maybe some family photos, screen dumps of engineering constants and conversion tables, ...
I don’t think AI can get very smart from my limited set of data.
What am I missing?
In layman's terms, not much unless you do a lot of high powered processing. And even then, we're talking about only certain tasks that are programmed to utilize that kind of instruction set.
Perhaps in 5 or so years, "normal" software apps will be made to utilize those instruction sets as well. For example, the laptop I'm typing this on is running a SQL Server database engine -- requiring more horsepower than most people need from their PC's (except maybe hardcore gamers). But the database software isn't design to utilize the GPU style chips of an "AI PC". So my database engine wouldn't run any faster on one of those chips...for now. Neither would any of my homemade software.
But a few years from now, perhaps I could recompile my same old software (a lot of it is C#) in a new version of the IDE I use, but with a few property settings it'd compile the end user program to utilize the GPU style chips too, with no real changes needed from me as a programmer to change a lot of the code. Then my software apps (and other out of the box apps) would run tons faster on the GPU PC's.
But even then, it wouldn't matter unless your app was very heavy on processing use (instead of being a light-weight app that's waiting for information to download from the internet, like my TUBI app on my ROKU device does, which will never speed up unless I speed up my internet connection).
For me, it would mean that when I lead a financial small group and someone asks, "What would have happened with investment portfolio A for someone who retired right before the dot-com bubble burst?". None of that data has to be downloaded -- I have it on my laptop (no lag time because of internet speed). The only lag in time for me to produce a report to answer that question is purely processing power to churn through the market data for that time period --- speeding up the CPU processing would be nice and make it take maybe half a second instead of 2 or 3 seconds. But virtually nobody does that kind of thing for personal use.
The same for if I wanted to study the past few years of my solar inverter data (which records all of the solar power coming in, how much of it was to power my home, how much I had to pull from the grid, etc. every 5 minutes). Perhaps if I wanted to re-examine all of the power rate plan options my power utility offers to see which one would cost me the less money based on what I know I would have pulled from the grid at each time of day during each month with each of the different time of day rates and how each of those change during the seasons. Again, none of that is data I'd have to wait to download from the internet (the usual reason we have to wait when using PC's). But it's a task I might have to wait a few seconds or even a minute to run because it's churning through a lot of data. But virtually no one else does that kind of thing with their laptop/desktop. So this GPU technology is really for AI and blockchain and gaming stuff.
Thanks.
For your solar power inverter case, would you be required to formulate a normal rigorous statistical analysis in R? Or will you be able to present the problem in general terms and have AI figure out HOW to solve it?
I use a recording pulse-oximeter at night to see how well I’m sleeping on my CPAP machine. I have tons of data in csv format and have been wondering how to analyze it. The app that comes with the recording device has simple histograms and averages, but they are only on a per-day basis. I can’t do summary analysis for a week, month or year.
I used co-pilot for the first time today.
It has a “conversation” with you.
Get it going with a basic question.
It then responds to one word inquisitive queries.
I asked about data centers in TX. It will throw out an informative detail.
Then I just asked “Compass” or “Microsoft” or “Dallas”.
It stayed on topic with data centers in TX.
It was kinda cool.
Shut up Stella.😏
AI PC sounds more like a spying on you and phoning home PC..... /Constantly taking screenshots and storing them/....until proven otherwise. I use Grok and Perplexity AI on line. How is any PC with built in AI, going to be better than Groks stacks of latest NVidia chips. I hear 100,000 of them.
AI PC is also a bonzo selling point. Soon be sold on QVC. Your brand new 17.3” HP / AI PC. Women love laptops and I see the larger 17.3” ones are sold frequently on QVC. What can I say, but better than a dumbed down tablet
Oh, but those people ARE "special needs" persons.
They "specially needs" to be taken out back and thrashed severely for their stupidity.
“I don’t want AI at all. When I’ve asked AI if someone is a retard, it nags at me
saying that is not appropriate question. It truly is 1984 Big Brother.”
Hear hear...
That's what the smaller kids called me because they were jealous that I was special and the school sent a little bus just for me.
Mean man sent email saying I need to go home now. That's funny cause I've been home for years.
Paste tastes good but don't tell anybody.
LOL, RIGHT!?
There you go.
I built my own desktop for the first time. The first I did was test it out playing Doom.
"Plook me now, you savage rascal."
These fools didn't even mention my Texas Instruments TI-99/4a. The TRS80 was a stupid joke compared to the TI-99/4a and it had the best speech synthesizer up until the present day.
The Osborne was a nothing burger, but it made a good boat anchor.
I already have issues with my Smart TV acting too smart for its own good. The last thing I want is an AI-PC that thinks it has to police my usage or think for me.
I can see it now, the AI Nanny PC the best thing for the modern-day sheeple.
Loading “Tunnels of Doom” from my cassette drive…good times!
“All PCs will be AI PCs “pretty soon,”
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I will be building a 100% Linux PC “pretty soon.”
Windows will only exist in a spellchecker on that box.
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Nope, it was never the word but the usage of it.
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