I think it would be convenient to have if enough users require it (tbh I saw very few posts demanding it) and make the torch API more consistent with other python packages.
My specific use case only cares about torch.from_numpy():
if img_np.dtype == np.uint16: # get rid
img_np = img_np.astype(np.int32) # of this part
img_t = torch.from_numpy(img_np).type(torch.FloatTensor)