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I wonder if AI is a technology that will move from "local producers" to a more centralized setup, where everybody just buys it as a service, because it becomes
by NiceElephant 5y ago
I wonder if AI is a technology that will move from "local producers" to a more centralized setup, where everybody just buys it as a service, because it becomes too complicated to operate it by yourself.
What are examples in history where this has happened before? The production of light, heat and movement comes to mind, that, with the invention of electricity, moved from people's homes and businesses to (nuclear) power plants, which can only be operated by a fairly large team of specialists.
Anybody has other examples?
- eunos 5y agoHosting from your owning servers on home, localized data centers to global cloud companies.
- NiceElephant 5y agoYeah, this kinda goes in the same direction, but in this case, as well as for example agriculture, I feel it is mostly for convenience. You could still do it at home if you wanted to, in contrast to operating a nuclear power plant. I thought chip-making might be another example, but I'm not sure that was ever decentralized in its early days.
- castratikron 5y agoWill we see an intelligence too cheap to meter? https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/is-power-ever-too-cheap-to-meter/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/is-power-...
- napoleon_thepig 5y agoThis is kind of already happening with services like Google cloud translation.