HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops in bid for small biz You’ve heard the call of Apple Intelligence, jumped for joy over Google Gemini, and cuddled up with Microsoft Copilot. Now, get ready for HP IQ, a local AI and collaboration application HP Inc. hopes will make its business laptops stand apart. Also, get ready for your boss to start recording in-person meetings. The printer …
I can't think of many businesses willing to shell out for 24GB of RAM in a laptop and that was before all the price insanity this year.
Agreed with the above, however. It just sounds rather creepy and much like other "AI" features, mostly pointless.
Is that a brand spanking new 32GB HP, purchased in the last week or so, one of the new models being discussed here? Or, like mine, a 32GB machine that was bought six or more months ago, before the current price rises really took off?
And, especially in the former case, do you have a specific, job-related requirement, for needing that much RAM, one that the business will make a profit on, or did they just give you something that will never be used for more than posting on The Register and just shrug off the extra cost?
Maybe you are, but I'm definitely not imagining the 8GB as standard HP laptops that $~WORKPLACE issues unless you request something better. Such fun trying to run Teams, Outlook and a web browser on W11 at the same time....can't imagine many of the SSD's will last long with all the swapping, but wasn't my purchase decision.
Likewise former workplace used to issue desktops. Unless you were very senior you got whatever the IT contractor could bodge together out of stuff he had lying around in his car.
Cue my workhorse being a 32-bit Core Duo, 2GB ram and a dying HDD that lasted a matter of weeks. Just my experience but it's been very rare I've worked anywhere that allows any kind of generous expenditure on IT.
If you click to enlarge the picture of the laptop, the text being shown could just as usefully be the desktop wallpaper.
Anybody who looks at that advert, words containing so little actual information, and thinks, "yup, that looks like a good summary of my meeting notes, it would be great if the machine typed it out for me" is going to - absolutely fall in love with this! Spot on marketing, HP.
There are already devices on the market which flood the room with noise at just above human hearing range (which, for a room full of middle-aged and later management and bright young self-described "creatives" who go clubbing, is not that high at all) to disrupt unwanted recording.
I do not condone sneaking one if those into any meetings where you spot someone with a new HP laptop.
What I *do* suggest is spending half an hour with some autotune software, a decent microphone and a group of offspring/nieces/nephews in the age range of 3 to 5 years old.
Play the result of that in a loop during your meetings and the answer to the question
> "what were some of the top concerns shared by the team”
will be Peppa Pig, Billy keeps pulling my hair, bum, poo, willy and farts.
In my fiddling about with AI meeting summaries (have to know how it works in order to advise my clients against it), I had a bit of a laugh ... We were discussing our individual to-do lists, things that we have noticed need doing around the ranch in the next week or so. One of the hands commented that an elderly Ford tractor[0] was over-due for an oil and filter change, and could probably do with a general cleaning & going over. His twin brother then noted that he had just discovered a clutch of turkey eggs and a broody hen behind the shed that that particular tractor lives in, so be careful when working on it.
The absolutely brilliant AI summary informed us that the tractor needed a new clutch.
Now I don't know how many of my fellow commentards have ever changed the clutch on such a magnificent beast, but it's not exactly a job for the neophyte shade-tree mechanic. It involves splitting the thing in half and hoping that one doesn't find anything else that needs fixing/replacing (ring gear comes to mind ...).
[0] 1970 Ford 4000. Came with the place. Looks like a complete beater, but is the most reliable utility tractor on the property.
"We see a big opportunity to help people thrive more in the workplace,”
Who doesn't? Chiefly by removing AI and PHBs from the premises.
“And to do that we’re creating this layer of intelligence that will stretch across our devices and really come to life in our AI PCs and make them more valuable than ever before and provide a really powerful model right there inside the PC.”
Shame. I was barracking for HP collective putting its head up a dead bear's bum but if wishes were fishes we would all be casting nets in the sea.
I wonder whether HP head hunted this Matt Brown from the Marketing Division of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation or whether HP is a wholly owned subsidiary of that Marketing Division.
I was just thinking that HP notebooks were always notorious for cooking their guts, so adding an AI processor of some description ought to add a bit more heat to the kitchen and cook the lappy's goose faster.
I was just thinking that HP notebooks were always notorious for cooking their guts
Interesting comment.
We have 4 HP laptops in our family, the oldest is a 6 year old Core i5 plus three i7 Probooks, these are currently 5, 4 and 3 years old respectively. None of them have given any trouble and have been more reliable than our previous Acer and Lenovo machines.
I'm hoping that my current Probook will last until I retire early next year but if necessary I'll buy a second hand W10 one without AI.
I have a 2015ish 5th gen i5 Elitebook as a daily driver / travel machine. With fresh thermal paste I can't get the CPU to exceed 65°c on a stress test in Ubuntu. Admittedly not the most powerful machine but find it runs quiet and cool in a way my work-issued 2021 era Dell Latitude doesn't.
"In a demo, an HP rep uploaded a sensitive document to a PC and then asked the IQ bot, which is based on OpenAI’s gpt-oss-20b, to analyze it. He then asked it to help him write an overview of a board meeting he was planning. It did both of these tasks quickly and with great detail.
The rep then showed off..." He hadn't been hustled of the door by this time?
How do you deal with someone who just likes to hear his voice, someone who waffles on, someone on his hobby-horse, someone with a grudge, someone with unfinished business, someone who wants to ram his viewpoint down everyoone's throats, someone just a contrarian etc. Much you would ignore and leave out of the meeting notes. How would the AI know this?
The laptop on which I'm typing this was purchased with no OS, abd runs Devuan (no systemd). A good deal of its contents, including my calendar, is synced to my own NextCloud server running on a Pi. My personal email Is hosted on my own domain by a service provider of my own choice (not the ISP) as is the charity's email service I also use.
In what way is that not a Personal Computer?
