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It's a huge difference. If you had AI sufficiently good running locally on a phone, you could devise workflows for things like basic digital hygiene, technical
by observationist 4mo ago
It's a huge difference. If you had AI sufficiently good running locally on a phone, you could devise workflows for things like basic digital hygiene, technical assistance, and tedious tasks like inbox management, image sorting, device updates, and so on. Privacy and security gets a big boost past some local competence threshold, and we're nearly there.
Make the local AI competent enough to do good image generation and editing, realtime voice and music generation, handle agentic tasks with a framework like Hermes, and you can take your AI places to do tasks in contexts that are inaccessible to or inappropriate for cloud.
Frontier big platform models will be the best, but there's a level of "good enough" for local uses that we're already seeing flourish, and "good enough" for the average joe is almost here.
- zozbot234 4mo agoPhones and laptops are terrible devices for local AI, way too constrained by bad thermals and small batteries. MiniPC's (many of them using mobile hardware) don't have that particular issue, and can easily run on a 24/7 basis.
- trollbridge 4mo agoPhones are also a terrible place to run a radio, but there's a huge amount of benefit in figuring out how to do so.
- observationist 4mo agoThat level of local AI is also more or less what you need for competent autonomous robots, too. If your household robots are orchestrated from your phone, the local security and cloud convenience converge on a single device. No extra servers, etc, reduced cost, all that - local AI is a massive market amplifier.
- yard2010 4mo agoLet me speculate - we are going in the weird direction of no private property unless you're an overlord that rents his property to peasants. I like to call it the revenge of communism. See how the market behaves in the llm space - it's more viable to share infrastructure than to own it. Imagine the private car revolution in the US was a bus revolution.
- trollbridge 4mo agoWe’ve been dreaming about this since the days of talking about wifi mesh networking, but it seems to never happen.
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