• Dragomus@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I wouldn’t mind having an AI or “superintelligent” assistant under my own control … but when I do I don’t think it’s any company’s business what I do with it.

    So, yeah, as in the old Microsoft days, let me buy one, perhaps even a pre-build box, at a reasonable price … but once it’s in my house the company loses all say or feedback over it and what I do with it.

    Heck if there’s to be newer full x.0 versions out it seems reasonable to be paying for those again as well so the AI companies get a steady enough income…

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      23 hours ago

      I mean, you can have that today, in some form or other, since that’s just how local AI works.

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        19 hours ago

        Totally. It’s a bit pricey for anything like a genuine personal assistant right now though. $15k or so to get the basics.

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          9 hours ago

          Atm the meta for local inference is unified memory and “routed” local agents (multiple smaller role-specific agents in a trench coat)

          The former is standout for cost efficiency (e.g., 4x RDMA 48gb Minis for a 192gb cluster @ $43/gb vs a $45k b200 alone)

          The latter is standout for many things, including resource efficiency on smaller machines

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            6 hours ago

            That’ll surely work to automate simple mental labor or tasks, but I don’t think a swarm of minis is going to be able to provide impactful personal and psychosocial analysis of your life.