Re: Windows-on-ARM Laptop Is A “Frequently-Returned Item” On Amazon

Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 3/24/2025 9:19 PM, rbowman wrote:
 

 
Not coming to a desktop near you any time soon.

 
I think this is true.
 
1) The cost can come down, by roughly a factor of three.
2) The benefit has to be higher, to swing the deal.
 
A break through is needed, not because the current AI is
so "dopey", it's because the current technology does not
scale nearly well enough. You can't handle a "big" problem
currently, even in a data center. Unless that changes,
there will never be a Skynet.

Agree and there will be. DeepSeek has shown there are big step changes
possible. Biology has also shown there are order of magnitude efficiency
improvements "out there". I mean, the human brain doesn't need megawatts of
power.

Not that any one of us wants skynet.