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"Owning hardware is wasteful": Slop Altman wants your RAM in the cloud where it can be rented back to you.
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Aside from tech billionaire being an asshole …..
Let me play devils advocate a bit here. Consider a voice assistant device. They’re cheap thing, basically only a microphone and network card, with minimal compute and memory, yet leverage cloud resources to do far more than such a cheap device could by itself.
Of course the real reason is he wants to hoard all the memory plus monetize your activities and track your every thought, but the point remains that voice assistandt devices can do far more with cloud than they could on their own
Because they’re explicitly deaigned to work that way.
I could install a voice assistant on my PC and have it do everything that the device with the cloud can do (except for steal and sell my data, charge me a monthly subscription fee, spy on me, etc.)
Having it be a standalone device is completely pointless (unless you value having your privacy violated) for the consumer, it only benefits the manufacturer and the service provider (and the databrokers they deal with).
Or you could have additional "access points" around your house that still just communicate with the voice assistant running on your computer on the same network. But no. It must be cloud. Your data must be harvested for the advertisers.
What good is advertising data when nobody has any money to spend on the things being advertised? temple tap