• Synapse
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    281 year ago

    Just curious, is 24GB of RAM in a smartphone useful for anything?

    • @46_and_2
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      111 year ago

      Doubt it, I don’t use so much even on my gaming PC.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      It will let you run more advanced local AI. I’m looking forward to running private LLMs.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      The only reason I can think of is for more on device ai. LLMs like ChatGPT are extremely greedy when it comes down to RAM. There are some optimizations that squeeze them into a smaller memory footprint at the expense of accuracy/capability. Even some of the best phones out there today are barely capable of running a stripped down generative ai. When they do, the output is nowhere near as good as when it is run in an uncompressed mode on a server.

    • @mikehunt
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      61 year ago

      Mostly caching I guess, so less cold starting of apps

    • ThankYouVeryMuch
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      61 year ago

      For the user? Not at all. For the companies that want their spying/tracking apps to run and take your precious data 24/7? Yes, this way dozens of apps can track you even if you open a hundred more afterwards and forget about them, they can live forever deep down those 24gb

    • @OfficerBribe
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      61 year ago

      It will allow future developers to create even less optimized apps and not worry about how resources are used.