• Kronusdark@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    We are about to enter a consumer tech dark age.

    I have no idea how companies expect to sell us AI if no one has a device that can access it.

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      14 days ago

      It’ll be the Chromebook model: ship devices with barebones specs with the idea that consumers must subscribe for cloud access for true computational capabilities.

    • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldOP
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      14 days ago

      They’ll gladly rent out usage of a computer to you for a subscription of expensive tokens like gems in a consumer unfriendly video game.

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      14 days ago

      I don’t think it is a dark age. It is just that there isn’t anything worth to increase on the hardware side; we’ve hit the point of diminishing returns on performance.

      • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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        13 days ago

        We could go for more power-efficient hardware like what Apple did when they started designing their own chips.