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• legrande 3y ago
  > People will continue developing closed-source AI because AI is expensive to train. Someone's gotta foot the bill But if it's local, we don't need to rely on the compute of third parties, we use our own compute. On-device AI will replace all these companies doing stuff in a remote black box we have no insight into.
  • smoldesu 3y ago
    Your own compute probably sucks. It's possibly some variant of CoreML, supporting a select few ops up to whichever featureset Apple considers supported. Or maybe it's some version of Microsoft's backend, either ONNX with a custom executor or DirectML with a possibility of native CUDA drivers. Maybe you're a Linux user, maybe you're on an iPad. Potentially you are an unnamed variant of ARMv7 supporting NEON virtualized through a KVM. Do you have a GPU? What's it's BLAS coverage? Does it work upstream? Does it support old code? This is why Nvidia ships the AI of today. In an ideal world you'd be right, and our big-tech benefactors would work together for the common good. In the real world, I wouldn't bet a single dime on FAANG's cooperation. You and I, our common wellbeing, is always a secondary consideration to them.