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by parineum 5 days ago
> Most people are ok with slower. An AI that lets you edit a family picture, in say 30 seconds, locally is preferable to one that is instantaneous but requires you to submit that picture to examination/storage/training/sale in someone else's AI ecosystem.

Maybe if you ask them that question, but if you show them two products, they'll definitely prefer the faster one. 30 seconds is a long time to watch a progress bar.
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spwa4 5 days ago
Plus there's the other question. If this thing is slower ... what's the price? The desktop/mini-pc version of this is $3000, after all. At this performance level what is an acceptable price for the laptops?

People definitely aren't going to accept more expensive + slower ...

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sandworm101 5 days ago
Fast and public, or slow and private. Not everyone wants, or is allowed to, share their data with the AI world. And do not doubt that every bit shared with an AI service will be used for training.
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parineum 5 days ago
The question here is about markets though. Not everyone wants x but if the vast majority of people want y, x is going to be niche and expensive.

You don't think the commercials of Google's AI photo features aren't going to have an impact on Apple users of their phones can do a worse version of that feature and it takes longer?

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