Popular YouTuber @Mrwhosetheboss has singled out the Google Tensor G3 as a major failing of the Pixel 8 Pro. According to the YouTuber, all of the new generative AI features found on the Pixel 8 Pro cannot be processed onboard the device, but need to be off-loaded to the cloud for processing, despite Google pitching the device as being “AI-first.”
  • adam@kbin.pieho.me
    342·
    1 year ago

    ITT people who don’t understand that generative ML models for imagery take up TB of active memory and TFLOPs of compute to process.

    • hotdoge42@feddit.deEnglish
      142·
      1 year ago

      That’s wrong. You can do it on your home PC with stable diffusion.

      • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.mlEnglish
        193·
        1 year ago

        And a lot of those require models that are multiple Gigabytes in size that then need to be loaded into memory and are processed on a high end video card that would generate enough heat to ruin your phones battery if they could somehow shrink it to fit inside a phone. This just isn’t feasible on phones yet. Is it technically possible today? Yes, absolutely. Are the tradeoffs worth it? Not for the average person.

        • diomnep@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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          1 year ago

          “He’s off by multiple orders of magnitude, and he doesn’t even mention the resource that GenAI models require in large amounts (GPU), but he’s not wrong”