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DLSS and FSR frame gen do not require upscaling. 

Since emulators already are simple to run at above native res, I'm not sure what this really offers. 

Interesting tech tho, Will have to learn more about it to really judge. 

15 minutes ago, The Pook said:

 

looks good to me but maybe make everything but the user names white? looks cleaner imo 

 

I actually prefer the darker text for that part, easier for the eyes to focus on the title that way. Certainly not a big deal either way tho. 

10 minutes ago, GanjaSMK said:

Yep I think there's progress there.

 

Makes me wonder though - will we manifest sci-fi into realities, or will reality manifest into sci-fi?

Funny you say that, this thing reminds me of a tricortor. 

3 hours ago, GanjaSMK said:

I watched most of the video but I can't wrap my head around the actual usefulness of this device. 

 

But then again I might still be stuck in the 90's. Or 80's. 

Yes it's not something that excites me much either just as a product. Instead of thinking about the product they're selling, just note the advancements to the digital assistant concept. 

Looks good. Probably don't need all the letters to be capitalized, but other than that looks good. 

10 minutes ago, schuck6566 said:

"The pocket-size device, called Rabbit r1, is designed to use your apps for you."

Let me get this straight, $200 for something that does was Alexa basicly does? I can tell Alexa to open an app on my firecube or tablet for me.Am I missing some big advantage here?

Yea kinda. It's way more capable than something like Alexa. One highlight from the video is when he takes a picture of a spreadsheet and then asks the AI to email him that same spreadsheet but with an additional colum of data. Or when the AI uses its camera to look at what's in the refrigerator and then suggests recipes.

I wasn't aware of this until I saw lots of other news outlets talking about it. The demo was impressive. 

I would vote for the second one. I don't mind the threads being ticker on mobile, most things are thicker on mobile. 

Perhaps it can be shortened further though. Maybe instead of "started by: Enterprise, Updated by: Pioneerisloud", it could just say "OP: Enterprise, Last: Pioneerisloud"

1 hour ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Not surprising, I mean considering the different revenue streams Microsoft have going and the fact that the Apple fandom IMHO is and has been slowly dying off for a little while now. So many people I used to know who used to be die hard apple fans have woken up to the fact you do not need to pay Apple prices to get a good experience and are now subsequently all on Android on varying device types. 

 

 

Certainly true that as smartphones get more powerful, the need to spend a lot on one just to get a decent experience becomes less and less. I don't see myself upgrading my ~$200 LG Velvet 5G until it breaks. 

1 hour ago, Sir Beregond said:

Yeah, well in many respects Apple really is just a fandom/fashion accessory. The whole ridiculousness around blue/green bubbles comes to mind, and there's your average Apple user. They've certainly managed to build a huge business on this, but eventually you reach a point where what else is there to do. Has the iPhone drastically changed much or provided anything meaningfully innovative in recent years? No. Apple Silicon sure helped Macbook, but aside from your existing demographics of Macbook users, is there anything else to draw people in?

 

Microsoft on the other hand has sufficiently diversified their business into multiple revenue streams. I obviously don't agree with everything Microsoft is doing on Windows side of the house, but it cannot be denied that they are certainly making good business choices with AI, cloud, and other things.

Kinda replying to your other post in the necro thread about Apple M1 here; Apple has made a lot of meaningful advancements with their chips, and they are even running a few real games now with Resident Evil games coming out on Macs and iPhones. But as I understand it, and I could be wrong here, most of Apple's advantages with their chips come from being first in line for the best nodes TSMC can make and not necessarily from them purely being more innovative. Their deep pockets have definitely had some advantages. But it does seem like they've lacked focus in the last few years. Their VR headset is unlikely to have meaningful sales given that it will be over 3 grand and require an eye appointment. At that price, it seems like it competes with something like HoloLens which also seems to be a pretty niche device. 

I just posted some news about this new Rabbit OS thing that is aiming to be an AI driven digital assistant to outperform something like Siri, and I can't help but think that turning Siri into a much better AI driven assistant should have been something Apple was highly focused on. It would have felt like a good natural progression of their tech. The VR headset, as impressive as it is, feels like a desperate attempt to make something innovative again. I think Steve Jobs understood that Apple innovates best when it innovates on products that can have mass appeal at an (arguably) reasonable price. Apple no longer makes much headway in that space and just continues to make more and more powerful versions of the same things. 

That said, it's Apple. They could come out next week and unveil an all electric smart car that puts Tesla to shame, or they could come out with a new Version of Siri that makes this Rabbit OS stuff look like an indie project. However, I grow more and more skeptical that Apple can keep up on innovation as it seems like they have gotten way too complacent to simply keep making faster and faster iPhones while using their deep pockets to get access to the best nodes before anyone else does. It seems like a bad long-term strategy to burn cash just to be first in line all the time. Eventually, just being first in line with little else to show won't be enough. 

Microsoft is looking 10-20 years into the future and putting themselves in a great position to be steering the ship when it comes to AI innovation. Apple is trying to recapture the lighting in a bottle they once had while using brute force to stay relevant. 

Side note: in your other post comparing Macs to Windows laptops at your work; I'd wonder what the cost comparison is. If you compare like for like specs Apple vs Windows, the Apple PC is probably going to cost double. If you compare similar prices, things will trend much differently. There are also sooo many windows laptops, surely some designs are worse than others. I wonder how people at your company would feel if they were comparing something like a Surface Book to their Macs. 

Another side note: Microsoft moving into the position of most valuable company while they're making a big push into AI isn't a coincidence. I think 2024 will be a year of shocking innovation in AI. As Sam Altman put it, this next tech revolution will happen faster than any other in history. Since as AI improves, it can get better at improving itself, it's growth will be exponential rather than linear assuming things develop as expected. in 5 years, I think we will start to see major impacts to society stating to kick in. All it will take is an AI smart enough to move around in a robot good enough to start doing a lot of physical tasks in the real world and we could start seeing humans transition into a new era of society. If you look at the robots Boston Dynamic already makes, it looks like most of the ingredients are already there and now they just need to learn how to work with each other. This is not just a guess as to where things are headed, OpenAI is working on this very concept. 

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The pocket-size device, called Rabbit r1, is designed to use your apps for you.
 

The startup developed the r1 with voice control so users can engage with it in the same way as a walkie-talkie and teach it how to complete specific tasks.

The tech is supposed to offer a way for users to complete digital tasks such as booking flights or ordering meals without using a phone or laptop.
 

"Throughout history, we have tried to make the tools more intuitive," Jesse Lyu, founder and CEO of Rabbit, told Business Insider. "The shape of computers is constantly changing, from punch cards to desktops, and mobile phones: we are constantly trying to make computers more intuitive and imagine new ways to interact with them."

A sleek $199 AI assistant that promises to handle your digital tasks sold out in a day — but more are on the way (msn.com)

Interesting device. Most interesting that something like this didn't come from Microsoft or Apple first, since it seems like it aims improve on the functionality of something like Siri, or do similar tasks to something like what CoPilot is aiming to be. 

Microsoft (MSFT) - Market capitalization

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As of January 2024 Microsoft has a market cap of $2.883 Trillion. This makes Microsoft the world's most valuable company according to our data.

Microsoft is now ahead. 

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MarketWatch notes that Microsoft's stock rose 57% in 2023, compared to Apple's which rose 48%. Microsoft shares have also reportedly seen what are described as slimmer losses at the start of 2024.

 

Apple, on the other hand, has seen its shares take a considerable drop in recent days. The first hit was taken following a claim by Barclays that iPhone demand is weakening and that the iPhone 16 range will not offer any compelling new features to tempt upgraders.

 

The analyst view that Apple is dependent on iPhone sales is part of why Microsoft is doing better. Analysts see Microsoft has being less attached to any hardware, and more attached to subscription software such as Office 365, and so therefore less attached to any falling demand for phones or computers.

 

And, Microsoft has launched an AI tool in Copilot, while Apple has not unveiled any similar ChatGPT-style app or service. Analysts appear to be ignoring that Apple has been using AI for many years, under the name Machine Learning, though, and also that it is never first to a market, even ones that it later comes to dominate.

Microsoft poised to overtake Apple as most valuable company -- again

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As Microsoft stock rises and Apple's falls over analysts expectation of slowing iPhone demand, the two firms are...

Microsoft actually overtook Apple briefly yesterday for a short time before Apple regain ground. The two are neck and neck now, but Microsoft is growing faster. Seems inevitable that Microsoft will overtake Apple and be able to maintain that position for a while at least this time. 

Right now Microsoft is at 2.88T vs Apple at 2.89T.

This is a recent video/podcast. For anyone who thinks AI is interesting, can't pass up seeing Bill Gates talk to Sam Altman.

On 07/01/2024 at 18:36, pioneerisloud said:

But if they did that, they'd be taking content away that people have paid for. -_-

Not that it matters, since they've nerfed the capabilities of making them run anyway by taking support of old OS's away.

I think they should refund people who have bought titles that only work on older OS's, regardless of if they take them away from the store front (since they don't work) or not.  Personally.  I know I wouldn't be so upset over this kind of crap if they gave me my money back.

You had mentioned the idea of a non valve handle shipping with steam OS before in the thread. Looks like that's happening. 

Ayaneo Next Lite is the first Steam Deck competitor built on SteamOS

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Chinese manufacturer Ayaneo is bringing the first non-Valve handheld system based on SteamOS to market...

29 minutes ago, ENTERPRISE said:

I agree that more effort must be made on the video descriptions/thumbnails with appropriate back links. It is something I will add to the list

What are your thoughts on setting up some kind of drop box users can dump video files onto? 

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Microsoft collaborated with the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to discover a novel material that could alleviate the global dependence on lithium in the production of rechargeable batteries. Leveraging AI and the Azure Quantum Elements cloud platform, the Microsoft team significantly expedited the time-consuming research on materials not found in nature.

 

With Redmond's high-performance computing (HPC) systems, the AI algorithms were able to predict the characteristics of new materials – such as energy, force, stress, electronic band gap, and mechanical properties. Microsoft and PNNL trained the AI models using millions of data points from simulations, resulting in a 1,500 times faster prediction of materials properties compared to traditional density functional theory calculations.

 

The selection process began with 32.6 million candidate materials and AI algorithms identifying 500,000 predicted stable materials. After screening for functional properties, the pool was further narrowed down to 800 potential candidates. Utilizing "AI-accelerated" simulations to explore dynamic properties like ionic diffusivity, the Microsoft Quantum team narrowed down the selection to 150 materials.

 

Practical considerations, including novelty, mechanics, and the availability of elements, were then factored in to identify a group of 18 top candidates. Leveraging PNNL's expertise and insights for additional screening parameters, Microsoft researchers pinpointed the final candidate: an electrolyte material that uses approximately 70 percent less lithium than existing li-ion batteries, substituting some lithium with sodium.

https://www.techspot.com/news/101486-microsoft-ai-found-new-material-replace-lithium-li.html

Sign of things to come? 

1 hour ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Hmmm, I am not 100% sold on the idea of another channel. The current YT Channel would suffice, all that is required is to organise it into playlists such as Review Content, Podcasts and another category to be named for user based uploads. I do not see the benefit of managing an additional channel strictly for a different category of content that relates to the same subject matter . Perhaps I am missing the point?

You're right the current channel is fine. I was only aware of the podcast channel. Just saw that there is a second one. 

Looking at a few of the videos on that second channel that have more views, there are no links back to ehw. There are links to review articles but not to the home page. Links to the EHW homepage should be at the top of every video description. 

Looking at that channel, you can see there is also a clear relationship between thumbnail quality and views. Some of the more recent videos have pretty weak thumbnails and hardly any views. 

But yea we could use that channel to put out some more community made videos for sure. Looking at what's on there now, a couple case review videos got decent views but most of them are just way too specific and boring. 

Instead of :

Started by xxxxx

Started on xxxxxxx

Could be:

Started by xxxxx on xxxxx

Or 

Started on xxxxx by xxxxxx

I think ehw needs a new YouTube channel separate from the podcast channel. I'm not  sure how this would work exactly as far as uploading, but if there were just a handful of interesting videos of various PC stuff, it would go a long way towards creating a presence there that might bring in a few users. 

Maybe there could be a cloud storage that people could dump video files onto that could later be uploaded to an ehw channel, assuming anyone would want to donate some video content. I'd be happy to put a few in game benchmark videos or just gameplay videos up. 

There are definitely some unique builds here, and a video that was something like "demanding game running on 4090 SLI" would definitely bring in some views. 

Personally I wouldn't mind each line being chunky as long as longer titles can be displayed, but if the "started by" part had to go in order to make the titles more visible, that would be a worth while trade off. 

What is your top game pick of 2023, and why?

My pick: Armored Core 6

This game was so overdue for me as someone who absolutely loved the AC series on PS2, where it shined the most. From Soft did a great job of recapturing the nostalgic feel while also making the game feel modern enough to avoid feeling dated. The graphics seem simple at first as you inspect the environments. It all feels a little low-fi initially, but once the real mech battles ramp up and you see how many particle effects are being pushed, it all clicks into modern mech perfection. 

My only complaint is that it's a seriously hard game. I am yet to beat it, stuck on a late game boss. But the game gives so many options for how to spec your mech, it's just a matter of time until I find the right combo. 

I wish I had played more 2023 games, but 2023 has felt like year of build up for the high-quality games that big studios have yet to bring to fruition. Here's hoping 2024 is the year UE5 titles, and titles from competing engines really start to shine. 

Also, most anticipated game for 2024?

Mine: HellBlade. 

3 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

Our parts creators are doing it wrong I feel like.  We're constantly pushing for more and more power draw, and the hell with efficiency anymore.

Ever since dedicated graphics cards can into existence, the trend has been to make them bigger, use more power, and create more heat. That doesn't mean they haven't also gotten a lot more efficient though. A GeForce 4060 uses ~115w and is vastly more efficient that a GeForce 8800. 

This stuff has a lot more to do with physics and the physical limitations of what's possible than any kind of design choices. As we get closer and closer to the atomic limit of transistors, something has to give. Sure there is always a greed factor, but by far the thing driving GPUs to be more expensive and less of a raw power increase gen to gen is physics. That's a big part of the reason why things like AI upscaling and other AI rendering techniques will be more and more important. It's a way to keep increasing visuals without relying purely on more and more transistors. 

Already what we call 3 or 4 or 5mn nodes really just means some parts of a chip are that small, but there are a bunch of other parts of chips that never got past the 16nm barrier and are still fabricated at 16nm, for example. 

Simply put, as the physics starts to get more and more in the way of advancement, the chips just have to get smarter. 

24 minutes ago, Sir Beregond said:

Do they even have room for a card between the 7800 XT and the 7900 XT? If I understand correctly, the 7800 XT is already the full Navi 32 GCD. I suppose they could further cut down Navi 31.

 

That's more aggressive price cutting than I was thinking they'd do, but that would probably be pretty good for them and they'd retain the good sales they currently have. I imagine they have plenty of margin to work with considering the MCM design and the relatively smaller die sizes as a result. At those prices they would still be a compelling offer in light of the Supers for the more VRAM and strong raster.

No idea on the specifics of their dies, I just know there is a huge gap between the 7800XT and 7900XT. 

As it is right now, the 7900XT is typically faster than everything Nvidia has aside from the 4080 and 4090 in normal games and RT games but falls short on PT. I am guessing the 4070Ti Super will slot between the 7900XT and 7900XTX. 

No doubt AMD will respond with price cuts, and I think we might get to see some much needed competition on prices. If the 4070Ti Super sells anywhere near MSRP, AMD prices will need to come down a lot. Right now the 7900XTX is going for just under $1000, that's going to have to come down to ~$750 to compete with the 4070Ti Super. 

I think AMD could also add some cards to their stack. I doubt they will release anything higher end than a 7900XTX, but they just announced the 7600XTX, they could do a 7700XTX and more importantly a 7800XTX. There is a wide gap in terms of both price and performance between the 7800XT and 7900XT. A 7800XTX would fill a huge gap from AMD and put that much more pressure on Nvidia. 

I don't think AMD has much headroom to go above a 7900XTX due to power consumption, but if they could squeeze in a 7950XT/XTX and sell that for $900 and drop the 7900XTX to $800 or less, that would be pretty sweet. 

Just a thought but you could sell the cpu you were going to give your buddy and then just give him the money instead so he could go with DDR5. 

Maybe a quick 15 second YouTube video commercial? Then we could link it to stuff. Maybe YouTubes algorithm would recommend it to some tekkies with a little luck. 

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