[enonimal]

I'm anxiously watching two developing spaces for this reason:

1. Homomorphic Encryption

2. Self-Hosted AI Systems

Homomorphic encryption is the idea that you can perform ML operations on encrypted data -- so that the providers of powerful AI need not know precisely what data you have.

Self-Hosted AI is just what it sounds like -- what if your Alexa processed on-device, and never left your home? What if your mobile devices could "phone home" to it from wherever you were, using an encrypted tunnel?

The second point is possible today, but the issue is keeping your local model to pace with the cloud offerings.

[Gibbon1]

I think device specific self hosted AI is coming. At least that's what I see from marketing stuff the chip companies send me. I think it could make some sense from the a cost perspective. The manufacturer of an appliance likely doesn't want to pay reoccurring fees for smart features which require uploading audio and video to the cloud.