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I think on-device models would be really useful. Imagine a conversational interface with much less latency so the conversations felt real. I wonder what kind of computing power we will need before we get there (e.g. running an LLM with lots of prompt data + on device speech recognition), maybe 5-10 years?

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> Imagine a conversational interface with much less latency

With current models the latency comes from processing, not from the network — going from a high-power remote server to a low-power local phone is likely to increase latency more than it reduces it

It depends on how big the model is. They are using a little LLM to help correct text and that would be dreadful if it took a server round trip.

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