As with everything in computing, what I want is more capability that runs on my own devices—my own compute servers, my workstation, my laptop, or my mobile devi

As with everything in computing, what I want is more capability that runs on my own devices—my own compute servers, my workstation, my laptop, or my mobile device. Every application or service that has to interact with third-party servers ("the cloud") to provide its functionality is, to my mind, defective or at least deficient of the ideal. AI is no exception. I have swarms of CPU cores in my life, the totality of which could easily accomplish all of the "AI" functions of any value that I've observed in my life and far more. Today's AI that works for me (rather than against me) provides things like voice recognition, calendar management, reminders, to-do list management, and route planning. None of these functions requires even a small fraction of my personal CPU core armada, which are idle for 99% of their clock cycles. Today's all-too-popular refrain of leveraging the cloud to provide sufficient compute capacity for these tasks is disingenuous and is too often accepted as truth when it's just cover for data exfiltration.