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It is not as simple as being a political problem. Many of the policy decisions we think of as being political were actually motivated by the cost/availability o
by matthewdgreen 3y ago
It is not as simple as being a political problem. Many of the policy decisions we think of as being political were actually motivated by the cost/availability of technology. As this cost goes down, new options become practical. We think of the Stasi's capabilities as being remarkable: but in fact, they would probably have been thrilled to trade most of their manual spying tools for something as powerful as a modern geofence warrant, a thing that is routinely used by US law enforcement (with very little policy debate.)
- asdff 3y agoWhile this is true, I don't think we are there yet with AI since its usually more expensive to run AI models than it is to perform more traditional statistical modelling.
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- matthewdgreen 3y agoA text recognition and face/object recognition model runs on my iPhone every night. A small LLM is used for autocorrect. Current high-end smartphones have more than enough RAM and compute to run pretty sophiscated 7B-param quantized LLMs. This level of capability will find its way down to even entry-level Walmart phones in about five years. Server side, things are going to be even cheaper.
- xcv123 3y ago> usually more expensive to run AI models Machine learning inferencing on phones is cheap these days https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Neural_Engine https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Neural_Engine