Comment by kennywinker

5 hours ago

Did you really watch “Her” and think this is a future that should happen??

Seriously????

I don’t think OP’s point has anything to do with AI companions.

The big benefit of moving compute to edge devices is to distribute the inference load on the grid. Powering and cooling phones is a lot easier than powering and cooling a datacenter

  • Local ai is probably a good direction, i agree. But there was a part of their point that had to do with ai companions, the bit where they say we are closer to “her”-like ai companions. That was the bit i was responding to.

What does what they said have anything to do with Her? Local LLMs are better than big corporations owning your data and offering LLMs for a huge cost.

  • I get the local ai thing. I agree it’s probably a good direction. The bit that has to do with the movie “her” is the bit at the end where they are excited about “her”-like companions on our phones.