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Computers are becoming smaller and the internet is becoming even more ubiquous. I don't see your future happening. Why would I spend a lot of money, space, and

Computers are becoming smaller and the internet is becoming even more ubiquous. I don't see your future happening. Why would I spend a lot of money, space, and maintenance time for a computer with a good GPU when I can just use any of the two internet connections I'm already paying for? I'm already trusting corporations to read my email, and no ChatGPT answer can get more personal than that. This is also why I think cloud gaming is only going to become more popular.

jaimex2 3y ago
Cloud gaming was a crash and burn story already. There's a stronger resistance to cloud than ever before after all the leaks, hacks and pushed agendas. These models aren't cheap to host and they'll lose to free local models that don't have boundaries or agendas. Cloud AIs inevitably will try and monetise by selling you crap or be funded to shape your opinions.
- shortcake27 3y ago
  > Cloud gaming was a crash and burn story already. What? No it isn’t. One company failing doesn’t mean the industry has crashed and burned. I use Xbox cloud gaming all the time along with millions of other people.
  - Krutonium 3y ago
    Even Microsoft has admitted (between the lines) that cloud gaming isn't as profitable as just selling games. And it's not just one company that's failed either. Google, Onlive, Gaikai, there was a company that made a Cloud console a couple years back, the list goes on. Besides, the latency will never be low enough, and the bandwidth cheap enough, for a lot of people to make it a viable solution.
- triggerity 3y ago
  Gaming is a total different field. Hard to make any assumptions out of this.most people I know definitely sync there data onto companies cloud storage. Alone for image backups and sharing and etc. No one minds that. No one minds mail analysis either. Cloud is healthy, very healthy
  - jaimex2 3y ago
    It is, but AI is a different kettle of fish altogether. We already push back on targeted advertising and tracking, think what AI is capable of with your data. If its writing your emails, if its summarising for you, if its consulting for you... It can push agendas and influence. Its quite dangerous. These models need to be local as much as possible and they need to be better than what the cloud can offer. At least for me this isnt one the decentralised Internet can take if we don't want to go down the dystopian future route.
- fomine3 3y ago
  > There's a stronger resistance to cloud than ever before after all the leaks, hacks and pushed agendas. It's a thing on HN loop.

jaimex2 3y ago

Cloud gaming was a crash and burn story already. There's a stronger resistance to cloud than ever before after all the leaks, hacks and pushed agendas. These models aren't cheap to host and they'll lose to free local models that don't have boundaries or agendas. Cloud AIs inevitably will try and monetise by selling you crap or be funded to shape your opinions.

shortcake27 3y ago
> Cloud gaming was a crash and burn story already. What? No it isn’t. One company failing doesn’t mean the industry has crashed and burned. I use Xbox cloud gaming all the time along with millions of other people.
- Krutonium 3y ago
  Even Microsoft has admitted (between the lines) that cloud gaming isn't as profitable as just selling games. And it's not just one company that's failed either. Google, Onlive, Gaikai, there was a company that made a Cloud console a couple years back, the list goes on. Besides, the latency will never be low enough, and the bandwidth cheap enough, for a lot of people to make it a viable solution.
triggerity 3y ago
Gaming is a total different field. Hard to make any assumptions out of this.most people I know definitely sync there data onto companies cloud storage. Alone for image backups and sharing and etc. No one minds that. No one minds mail analysis either. Cloud is healthy, very healthy
- jaimex2 3y ago
  It is, but AI is a different kettle of fish altogether. We already push back on targeted advertising and tracking, think what AI is capable of with your data. If its writing your emails, if its summarising for you, if its consulting for you... It can push agendas and influence. Its quite dangerous. These models need to be local as much as possible and they need to be better than what the cloud can offer. At least for me this isnt one the decentralised Internet can take if we don't want to go down the dystopian future route.
fomine3 3y ago
> There's a stronger resistance to cloud than ever before after all the leaks, hacks and pushed agendas. It's a thing on HN loop.