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it will be ironic when consumers cant afford the end user devices needed to interact with the AI servers. House of cards??
Let me put on my tinfoil hat really quick.
They want to kill personal computing. You don't need a full blown computer, you need a fire stick style device that plugs into your monitor and allows you to remotely access the virtual machine you rent from Microsoft on a monthly basis.
this has been “the plan” since 2005. when i was in high school trying to figure out what the heck “cloud computing” was, this is what they were talking about: anything requiring more compute than secure authentication and pixel drawing would be rendered in the cloud and delivered to dumb terminals. this is what netbooks, Chromebooks, and smartphones have been a step towards if not an implementation of.
There is no tinfoil about it. Jensen Huang and the other tech oligarchs have openly stated that is their goal.
Even those contain RAM.
Yes, but they can get away with a tiny amount of it. Perhaps we are back at the start of personal computing and arcade machines era, where every byte counted.
Not really. Developers have forgotten how to write small, efficient code. Everything is a web page these days, and so the bare minimum app is a web browser, and a web browser is huge.
This is 100% the plan. Also, I would not be suprised if in 5-10 years there are legal limitations on what kind of computing capacity a private person can purchase due to “national security” reasons.
Man, this makes me want to take stock of what I have in the attic. Those old computers dont sound so bad any more.
I also wonder if I should be hoarding raspberry pi and building some kind of cluster
Dumb terminals don't need much RAM. Unfortunately, the minimal RAM would come with maximum rentiership and exploitation.
i am having visions of 3270 screens😉