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AI has been around for how many years, and it's still as niche and gimmicky as it's ever been. Especially the heavyweight kind that does need that bandwidth. T

AI has been around for how many years, and it's still as niche and gimmicky as it's ever been. Especially the heavyweight kind that does need that bandwidth. The only "AI" feature I use on macOS with any kind of regularity is the built-in OCR to copy text from images. But then my weak-ass Pixel 4a can do the same thing in the app switcher, so I assume it needs neither a fast CPU nor high-bandwidth memory.

viraptor 3y ago
> AI has been around for how many years The one we're talking about these days which requires high memory bandwidth only existed since 2023. 2022 was GPT 3.5, but locally Llama was the threshold when local llm really took off and that's early 2023. That's in the ballpark of time you normally need to design a new laptop and get it into production.