With a politicians tag number taped to the balloon...

Most tasks don't really need the big cloud based models. While on device models will lack the depth, breadth, and speed of cloud offerings, they have a number of advantages:

• Private data can stay private and not get into the cloud models knowledge.
• For specific types of tasks with well defined needs, the smaller models will be good enough
• Costs are a lot less and more controllable since you aren't buying tokens at an unknown rate
• Cloud models can still be accessed if needed via an API while still not revealing private data; for example you could use the cloud to do a lit search and use the data locally
• They can be hosted on a private server or on the end user's machine
• Speed isn't necessarily a big issue for many tasks vs costs; and speed can be bought

Of course, if the silicon gets powerful enough to make local models more commonplace, the AI firms may be more reticent to release stripped down versions for free when they discover it's no longer the first hit is free model...

AI can't fix stupid

Unfortunately no overseas free text ad data. That tie sme to Tmob fo rnow.

Except it doesn't offer the international data and texting, something I use.

Ten million nag screens. An app doesn't care if you close a popup over and over.

There are hundreds of millions in the table.

It's entirely possible for someone to pay someone to start fires, or, have someone reach out with "proof" they started one and ask for payment. Creating a process that encourages either action is only going to make things substantially worse.

Exactly. If the alternatives weren't worse in terms of costs and features I used, I'd have dumped them years ago. I had been on an ultra cheap grandfathered plan so no other carrier comes close, even with their price increase.

Reminds of the Dilbert cartoon where the PHB announces they will reward staff for each bug they find and Wally announces "I'm off to write a mini-van..."

Good points. The challenge is, given Linux' fragmented nature, presenting

Companies selling boxes don't want to have to mess with OS UI design, they want one that user' can use out of the box and runs the programs their customers want on their boxen. Linux' strength is a san open source software people are free to adapt it to their needs, but that is also a weakness when it comes to marketing because it fragments the market and their isn't a consistent desktop GUI or interface standards. A lot of the stuff just isn't polished, even though it works fine, which is a challenge when it comes to mass marketting. People want shiney.

Ecxept lawyers have been pretty good at ensuring only lawyers can practice law and give legal advice; and while they will no doubt adopt AI to automate tasks low level staff do now, I doubt AI will be a big threat to them like it will for other occupations; rather it will be a tool to be more efficient whithout billing less.

Most human call centers I have had to contact aren't much better, just some person making a tiny wage reading from a script. Not there fault, it's just companies want the lowest price so that's what they get.

Yea, or maybe some sort of induction motor to create a counter rotation?

An axially mounted camera would not ned to spin. Not invisible, but a much smaller thing to spot.

If it can be made large enough to carry explosive charges it would be useful on the battlefield. You might hear it but have a hard time spottig it until it goes boom.