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Comment by CuriouslyC | Hacker News Reader

There's no point in an AI generating consumer device, the compute can just be in the cloud.

“There’s no point in personal computing consumer device, the compute can just be on a mainframe.”

Apologize for the allergic reaction to running something on somebody else’s computer. As much as I appreciate our connected world, I prefer my data and compute local and private.

There’s few things in this world that infuriate me on a daily basis more than a slow or lost internet connection.

Edit: grammar

While I appreciate the sentiment, the market of people like you who are ALSO unwilling to just purchase a GPU is probably miniscule.

Oh, I don’t mind getting a GPU. I also don’t believe it’s right at the moment to build a machine just for AI activities.

I was commenting more on the idea to run AI in the cloud instead of on device.

The grandparent asked for 'a consumer box that can run "AI"', there's no reason to think they wouldn't accept a box that contains a GPU.

sounds a bit like "there is a world market for 50 computers"

the main reason for me would be no need to pay and also no one censoring the content

If you are serious enough about gen AI to want to run it locally you can just get a good video card. Otherwise, you'll save time and money by just using a service/collab, I promise you that there will be ones that offer privacy and uncontrolled generation.

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