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[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (13 children)

Wouldn't this absolutely hammer the battery though, or at least give the CPU a hard time? My understanding is that offloading the work to a cloud platform means that the processor-intensive inputting, parsing, generating, and outputting operations are done in purpose-built datacentres, and end user devices just receive the prepared answer.

Wouldn't this rinse the battery and increase the overall device temperature for "normal" end users?

Fair warning: I haven't read the two papers outlined in the article.

[–] kattenluik@feddit.nl 14 points 11 months ago (8 children)

CPUs can have special hardware accelerators for stuff like this, and you'd be surprised how powerful our little phone CPUs are and how optimized stuff like this can become.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 9 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Awesome, thanks for the insight.

I'm showing my age here, but much like we had math coprocessors running beside the 286 and 386 gen CPUs to take on floating point operations; then graphics cards offloaded geometry-based math operations to GPU's - are we looking at AI-style die or chips to specifically work on AI functions?

Excuse my oversimplification, this isn't my field of expertise!

[–] deadly4u@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago
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