alt Hacker NewsI have always envisioned a ai server being part of a family's major purchases e.g. when they buy a house, appliance, etc. they also buy a 'ai system'.
Machine hardware evolution is slowing down, pretty soon you can buy one big ass server that will last potentially decades as it would be purpose built for ai.
Things like 'context based home security' yeah thats just, automatic, free, part of the ai system.
Everyone will talk to the ai through their phones and it'll be connected to the house, it'll have lineage info of the family may be passed down through generations etc, and it'll all be 100% owned, offline, for the family; a forever assistant just there.
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If you bought a big ass server for your home 10 years ago it probably wouldn't have even have had a GPU/AI accelerator at all. If it did, it would have been something with wimpy compute and VRAM because you needed the video encoder/decoder for security cameras or the like.
I'm not sure that really gives confidence hardware has really slowed down enough to invest in it for decades. Single core CPU performance has but that's not really what new things are using.
I don’t think there’s anything different between what you’re suggesting and a homelab. Most people do not have a homelab and are happy to offload services like photo storage or security to remote providers.
Reminds me of how 12, Grimmauld Place works in the Harry Potter books. With an AI server the enchantments could be so much better.
I think this is likely, but in a slightly different way - I think we're going to start seeing more LLMs baked into silicon a la Taalas' ASIC.
ie, something like this fake future apple device page: https://speculate-mai.pages.dev/
> pretty soon you can buy one big ass server that will last potentially decades as it would be purpose built for ai.
This feels like a very, very weak prediction (though certainly possible).
And it's not going to happen any time soon because there's no recurring revenue to be gained from users/homeowners for such a thing.
Based on our current trajectory, it seems more likely everyone will upload everything to the cloud and pay perpetual royalties to access their own data.
Reminds me of the mainframe in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Thanks for your insight, hardware of AI will be cheaper and memory of footage would be always saved locally.
This is your reminder we're in a bubble inside of a bubble...
Most people don't even think about running network cables or mesh wifi when building a house, no one will buy a server to run ai in their physical home
> I have always envisioned a ai server being part of a family's major purchases
and an oxide rack
I disagree. Let's take the M1 vs the M5 (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/10/apple-silicon-m1-to-m5-...):
Over the span of 5 years.Plus, realistically what makes an "ai" server different from a computer? This "lineage info of the family may be passed down through generations" sounds nice but do you know anyone passing down a Commodore 64 or Apple II that remains in daily use? I fail to see how "ai" would protect something from obsolescence.