In an interview with Bloomberg, Dave Limp said that he "absolutely" believes that Amazon will soon start charging a subscription fee for Alexa

Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec::In an interview with Bloomberg, Dave Limp said that he “absolutely” believes that Amazon will soon start charging a subscription fee for Alexa

    • Zetta@mander.xyzEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yes, and you can run a language model like Pygmalion Al locally on koboldcpp and have a naughty AI chat as well. Or non sexual roleplay

        • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yeah that’s not a lot. I mean… the average consumer probably has 10GB free on their boot volume.

          It is a lot to download. If we’re talking about ordinary consumers. Not unheard of though - some games on Steam are 50GB+

          So okay, storage is not prohibitive.

      • arthurpizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Storage is getting cheaper every day and the models are getting smaller with the same amount of data.

    • teuastEnglish
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      1 year ago

      In five to ten years, imo, AI will be everywhere and may even replace the need for mobile Internet connections in terms of looking up information.

      You’re probably right, but I kinda hope you’re wrong.

        • teuastEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Call it paranoia if you want. Mainly I don’t have faith in our economic system to deploy the technology in a way that doesn’t eviscerate the working class.