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The likelihood of the product/service lasting long enough to qualify as "never" dying is zero. Even basic websites don't last forever. Operating systems aren't
by s1mon 2y ago
The likelihood of the product/service lasting long enough to qualify as "never" dying is zero. Even basic websites don't last forever. Operating systems aren't supported forever.
People in assisted living homes are typically tended to by some of the least technically capable people earning minimum wage (or maybe slightly above that). Any technology to support an AI presence will fail quickly. The wifi will go out, the system will get unplugged, the login info will get lost.
Just keeping a cordless phone and a large LCD clock running with the correct time was a nightmare which required a lot of follow up or visiting for tech support.
- ndriscoll 2y agoRun the thing offline. You don't need a website. You don't need updates. You don't need the OS to be supported. Just a computer with a GPU, a screen, speakers, and a microphone. Maybe a webcam. All the state/memory it could need could fit on a small internal NVMe drive. All of that stuff could be integrated into an all-in-one PC so you just need to plug in power. Perhaps have a switch to wipe its memory/revert to a factory filesystem snapshot if the person moves out or dies. It's not clear to me whether the idea is a good one in the first place, but assuming it is, you don't have to make everything in tech be a recurring revenue stream.