Just curious, do any of you think AI would be more popular if someone was offering as a physical product?
As in instead of data center and paying a company to use their model, you pay for an in home server with some sort of base agentic LLM preinstslled that you could then train to your specific needs.
You can run some pretty neat local AI agents on consumer grade hardware without much issue. There are also new models that will run on phone hardware. They won’t write complicated programs, but they work well for assistant things.
I would say no, because even physical devices you purchase have to come with subscription plans or in some way talk back to the manufacturers servers that isn’t in your interest.
Just curious, do any of you think AI would be more popular if someone was offering as a physical product? As in instead of data center and paying a company to use their model, you pay for an in home server with some sort of base agentic LLM preinstslled that you could then train to your specific needs.
Ew, no
You can run some pretty neat local AI agents on consumer grade hardware without much issue. There are also new models that will run on phone hardware. They won’t write complicated programs, but they work well for assistant things.
I would say no, because even physical devices you purchase have to come with subscription plans or in some way talk back to the manufacturers servers that isn’t in your interest.
I think we just (rightfully) lost faith in tech products overall by now.
Those are starting to become a thing
https://clawbox.com/ai-assistant-box
https://futureproofhomes.net/products/nexus
I would use this, but how can one trust that there is any privacy on a product from any of the big tech companies?
Yeah, that would be swell