Being realistic doesn’t mean a need to be cynical. Leaps and bounds of progress never lasts forever. Incremental improvement is still worth celebrating.
I totally disagree that specialized processing units are wasteful because they spending most of their life powered down. Your iPhone uses the neural engine every time you open the camera app. The announced AI features for the next iOS version will be using on-device AI a lot of times you use Siri - which is used a lot by a lot of people.
The old school version of this would be like if you were dissing multimedia instructions like hardware encoders/decoders. How do you think your laptop so effortlessly plays back 4K video and somehow get better battery life than when you’re working on a Word document? It’s that part of your processor that usually “sits there doing nothing.”
You just don’t realize how much these segments of the chip are accelerating your experience.
I totally disagree that specialized processing units are wasteful because they spending most of their life powered down. Your iPhone uses the neural engine every time you open the camera app. The announced AI features for the next iOS version will be using on-device AI a lot of times you use Siri - which is used a lot by a lot of people.
The old school version of this would be like if you were dissing multimedia instructions like hardware encoders/decoders. How do you think your laptop so effortlessly plays back 4K video and somehow get better battery life than when you’re working on a Word document? It’s that part of your processor that usually “sits there doing nothing.”
You just don’t realize how much these segments of the chip are accelerating your experience.