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minus-squarech00f@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days agoWhat kind of consumer-facing software runs on that NPU?
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days agoFor what it’s worth an NPU is why your phone could tell you that photo is of a cat years before LLMs were the hot new thing. They were originally marketed as accelerators for machine learning applications before everybody started calling that AI.
minus-squarefuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 days agoI know Video editing software uses it for things like motion tracking. It’s all stuff your GPU can do, but the NPU can do it for like 1/10th to 1/100th the power.
minus-squareoni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoNew versions of Sony Vegas use the NPU to enhance AI features, nothing that humans cannot do before.
minus-squaremaccentric@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoSony still makes laptops? TIL
What kind of consumer-facing software runs on that NPU?
For what it’s worth an NPU is why your phone could tell you that photo is of a cat years before LLMs were the hot new thing. They were originally marketed as accelerators for machine learning applications before everybody started calling that AI.
I know Video editing software uses it for things like motion tracking.
It’s all stuff your GPU can do, but the NPU can do it for like 1/10th to 1/100th the power.
New versions of Sony Vegas use the NPU to enhance AI features, nothing that humans cannot do before.
Sony still makes laptops? TIL