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I always had imagined this convinient future to be about an intelligence that lived within my home and not a remote server farm. That way everyone had their own

I always had imagined this convinient future to be about an intelligence that lived within my home and not a remote server farm. That way everyone had their own personal AI that grew with you and not connected to any others. There was no big brother since it wasnt centralized. Why cant a startup be formed to make this real?

rorykoehler 11y ago
Good AI requires huge amounts of data, like you would find on a server farm.
- futureiswithus 11y ago
  a single person produces enough data in my mind to train an AI for him or her. We just need to apply existing algorithms to the problem. We just need a lot of data to make a generic AI that works for all. Which isnt the case for the above proposal
  - Godel_unicode 11y ago
    The problem isn't the algorithms, the problem is the labeled training sets which those algorithms need to create models. Also, to recommend news stories a la Google Now you need to scrape an appreciable portion of the Internet and extract features to score against your model.
yjisawesome 11y ago
So what you are suggesting this trend will be perfect as long as we control like keeping private home network? What a novel idea!!! However, in order for startup to be interested, this idea gotta have some commercial potential aka profitable. How do make this idea profitable though?
- greenyoda 11y ago
  Not all innovation comes from startups. There are probably lots of people who would be interested in working on a free, open source AI system if someone were to organize such a project. It would be interesting to see who the "Linus Torvalds of AI" will turn out to be.
  - itsyogesh 11y ago
    Just to add to the fact, GNU already created an open source neural network platform. (https://www.gnu.org/software/gneuralnetwork/ https://www.gnu.org/software/gneuralnetwork/)
BatFastard 11y ago
So you can get voice recognition at home, but you end up losing updates, new features, and ability to interoperate with other services. Cloud based services make it so that one person doesn't have to carry this load themselves.
- eli_gottlieb 11y ago
  Can't I get those things from `sudo apt-get upgrade`?
  - peterjancelis 11y ago
    Having mass market B2C customers do this is a customer support nightmare.
- nitrogen 11y ago
  Standardization makes it so that nobody has to carry this load themselves.

rorykoehler 11y ago

Good AI requires huge amounts of data, like you would find on a server farm.

futureiswithus 11y ago
a single person produces enough data in my mind to train an AI for him or her. We just need to apply existing algorithms to the problem. We just need a lot of data to make a generic AI that works for all. Which isnt the case for the above proposal
- Godel_unicode 11y ago
  The problem isn't the algorithms, the problem is the labeled training sets which those algorithms need to create models. Also, to recommend news stories a la Google Now you need to scrape an appreciable portion of the Internet and extract features to score against your model.

yjisawesome 11y ago

So what you are suggesting this trend will be perfect as long as we control like keeping private home network? What a novel idea!!! However, in order for startup to be interested, this idea gotta have some commercial potential aka profitable. How do make this idea profitable though?

greenyoda 11y ago
Not all innovation comes from startups. There are probably lots of people who would be interested in working on a free, open source AI system if someone were to organize such a project. It would be interesting to see who the "Linus Torvalds of AI" will turn out to be.
- itsyogesh 11y ago
  Just to add to the fact, GNU already created an open source neural network platform. (https://www.gnu.org/software/gneuralnetwork/ https://www.gnu.org/software/gneuralnetwork/)

BatFastard 11y ago

So you can get voice recognition at home, but you end up losing updates, new features, and ability to interoperate with other services. Cloud based services make it so that one person doesn't have to carry this load themselves.

eli_gottlieb 11y ago
Can't I get those things from `sudo apt-get upgrade`?
- peterjancelis 11y ago
  Having mass market B2C customers do this is a customer support nightmare.
nitrogen 11y ago
Standardization makes it so that nobody has to carry this load themselves.