by stego-tech 10 hours ago
The document is paints a super impressive picture, but the core constraint of “network connection to Google required so we can harvest your data” is still a big showstopper for me (and all cloud-based AI tooling, really).
I’d be curious to see how well something like this can be distilled down for isolated acceleration on SBCs or consumer kit, because that’s where the billions to be made reside (factories, remote sites, dangerous or sensitive facilities, etc).
People with your concerns probably make up 1% of the market if that. Also I don’t upload stuff I’m worried about Google seeing. I wonder if they will allows special plans for corporations
I’m very curious where you get that number from, because I thought the same thing until I got a job inside that market and realized how much more vast it actually is. The revenue numbers might not be as big as Big Tech, but the product market is shockingly vast. My advice is not to confuse Big Tech revenues for total market size, because they bring in such revenue by catering to everyone, rather than specific segments or niches; a McDonald’s will always do more volume than a steakhouse, but it doesn’t mean the market for steakhouses is small enough to ignore.
As for this throwaway line:
> Also I don’t upload stuff I’m worried about Google seeing.
You do realize that these companies harvest even private data, right? Like, even in places you think you own, or that you pay for, they’re mining for revenue opportunities and using you as the product even when you’re a customer, right?
> I wonder if they will allows special plans for corporations
They do, but no matter how much redlining Legal does to protect IP interests, the consensus I keep hearing is “don’t put private or sensitive corporate data into third-parties because no legal agreement will sufficiently protect us from harm if they steal our IP or data”. Just look at the glut of lawsuits against Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc from smaller companies that trusted them to act in good faith but got burned for evidence that you cannot trust these entities.
Special since Trump, which non-US company should trust and invest know-how to an us company. And then are also governments. Also special since Trump, is way to risky to send any data to an us company.
Arpanet was supposed to be decentralized. Now everyone wants to centralize everything so in a war it is sufficient to strike 100 data centers and the whole tethered economy collapses.
That is called progress.
EDIT: You can downvote the truth but still no one wants your "AI" slop.
Ah, the fond memories of telnetting to NCSA to upload the raw HTML of my first website, written on an OG Macintosh computer and ported via floppy to a PowerMac for network connectivity.
Simple, elegant. I do miss those days.