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@MrWhosetheboss video reveals Google's Pixel 8 Pro Tensor G3 off-loads all generative AI tasks to the cloud

3 years ago by Vangarell to c/googlepixel

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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.”
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adam 49 points 3 years 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.

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hotdoge42 20 points 3 years ago

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

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KLISHDFSDF 20 points 3 years 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.

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Kushan 11 points 3 years ago

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mrbaby 1 point 3 years ago

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AlmightySnoo 3 points 3 years ago

You can for example run some upscaling models on your phone just fine (I mentioned the SuperImage app in the photography tips megathread). Yes the most powerful and memory-hungry models will need more RAM than what your phone can offer but it's a bit misleading if Google doesn't say that those are being run on the cloud.

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