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I always had imagined this convinient future to be about an intelligence that lived within my home and not a remote server farm. That way everyone had their own personal AI that grew with you and not connected to any others. There was no big brother since it wasnt centralized. Why cant a startup be formed to make this real?

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So you can get voice recognition at home, but you end up losing updates, new features, and ability to interoperate with other services. Cloud based services make it so that one person doesn't have to carry this load themselves.

Can't I get those things from `sudo apt-get upgrade`?

Having mass market B2C customers do this is a customer support nightmare.

Standardization makes it so that nobody has to carry this load themselves.

Good AI requires huge amounts of data, like you would find on a server farm.

a single person produces enough data in my mind to train an AI for him or her. We just need to apply existing algorithms to the problem. We just need a lot of data to make a generic AI that works for all. Which isnt the case for the above proposal

The problem isn't the algorithms, the problem is the labeled training sets which those algorithms need to create models.

Also, to recommend news stories a la Google Now you need to scrape an appreciable portion of the Internet and extract features to score against your model.

So what you are suggesting this trend will be perfect as long as we control like keeping private home network? What a novel idea!!! However, in order for startup to be interested, this idea gotta have some commercial potential aka profitable. How do make this idea profitable though?

Not all innovation comes from startups. There are probably lots of people who would be interested in working on a free, open source AI system if someone were to organize such a project. It would be interesting to see who the "Linus Torvalds of AI" will turn out to be.

Just to add to the fact, GNU already created an open source neural network platform. (https://www.gnu.org/software/gneuralnetwork/)

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