For the past few months, I feel like I’ve been living the inverse of Monty Python’s “What have the Romans ever done for us?” sketch. Every time I’ve been at a press conference where a PC manufacturer has launched a new AI PC I’ve asked the question: what’s it going to do for us? The answer: blur the background of our video calls without smashing the granny out of your CPU. Er… that’s it.
Okay, that’s a slight exaggeration. There are practical benefits to having a neural processing unit