An early treat for y’all.
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I wanted to sell my PC since now i ultimately use it only for gaming which doesn’t happen often. But with how the market is I don’t know anymore.
In my case, Work wants to push for "red team” AI agents, but I’ve managed to make them skeptical about, specially talking about the ROI since money its what moves them. Since I rather have more high quality testers and better pay for my testers.
I haven’t tested a lot of AI, I use gemini CLI from time to time, but never used it for a daily basis use case, nor intend to do that, just like I still use manual light switches for my home, no need to have them internet enabled.
For local AI testing, I can only really do something like 8B models since my PC has a 12gb RTX 3060 and my macbook M5 has 16gb of RAM (haven’t tested local AI on this laptop). I’ve heard of AirLLM, but haven’t really used it.
I must be in custom smelted tin faraday costume if this is full foil hat. You make great points and I agree that this is the dream of the cloud computing giants, which they will eventually push with their collective power.
I’d like to push another conspiracy, that the dumbing down, caused by gen ai, is also the point. Getting people so heavily reliant on gen ai, means that when it is time to make decisions on what to buy, wear, or consume–including a shiny OpenAI terminal–then those same people have already offloaded much of their critical thinking capabilities, they are forced to accepted the response of the terminal.
p.s. I swear I didn’t use ai writing this, I just learned what the actual em dash is for last name after I found it in the reference section of my physical dictionary and wanted to try it out over parenthesis 
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Sadly, I have good friends who are already there; and they “used to be” [that’s a weird phrase; it must translate terribly] reasonably deep thinkers.
(speaking language translation, I love how my Polish friends consistently refer to “today morning”)
I’ve been thinking of my AI blog posts as a series, and the culmination is going to be called “Addiction.” It’s the hardest to write for personal reasons, but I hope it will be the most powerful.
Generative AI is an addictive substance. It should be treated as such. And addicts also need to be treated as such: with grace, care, and patience once they are ready to recover.
I’m looking forward to reading it.
I’ve been compiling an article on the what technologies change our minds. From Marshall McLuhan writings on the medium is the message, Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death about the TV and segmented videos, to Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows taking the next step into how we are physiologically changed.
The writing process for this has completely changed me.
Six months ago, I was “eh” on AI. I didn’t care really either way and thought it was mostly a novelty and something to get code started. Now, I’m at this “extreme” end, that 5 years ago would have just been called a linux user.
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Just read this article in Apple News today (The PC era is dying. Welcome to the collective computer era - Fast Company) and was reminded of your blog post and it’s eerily accurate predictions.