It sounds like I’m ragging on the hardware and I’m not, the chip is really cool for gaming and other fun stuff.
You are right about that older hardware too. Americans oughta look at their scrap market right now because it’s good as hell and artificially cheap because of this nonsense LLM boom.
Nah we’re up to running Qwen3 and Deepseek r1 locally with accessible hardware at this point so we have access to what you describe. Ollama is the app.
The problem continues to be that LLMs are not suitable for many applications, and where they are useful, they are sloppy and inconsistent.
My laptop is one of the ones they are talking about in the article. It has an AMD NPU, it’s a 780M APU that also runs games about as well as an older budget graphics card. It handles running local models really well for its size and power draw. Running local models is still lame as hell, not how I end up utilizing the hardware. 😑
good stuff! this is the exposure we need
LibreOffice may not be the prettiest or the most stable, but dammit, it gets the job done
Fedi is doing fine whether or not Nazi platforms crumble.
Where is the good AI written code? Where is the good AI written writing? Where is the good AI art?
None of it exists because Generative Transformers are not AI, and they are not suited to these tasks. It has been almost a fucking decade of this wave of nonsense. The credulity people have for this garbage makes my eyes bleed.