alt Hacker NewsThe point of AI is that it's supposed to be intelligent. Why silo it in an app? Instead of telling it what to automate, shouldn't it sit at the OS level, watch everything you do, and figure out what to automate by itself?
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tadfisher • today at 5:09 AM
Humans do not want something sitting at the OS level, watching everything you do. Microsoft, famously, tried this and the backlash was immediate and intense.
If you believe you can do better, then build it! I don't think the tide has changed though.
altmanaltman • today at 6:54 AM
> shouldn't it sit at the OS level, watch everything you do, and figure out what to automate by itself?
Read that again and really ask yourself if you want a private company to have access to all that and the ability to do whatever it wants with your system at the OS level.
Most people don’t have good enough hardware to run a decent model. I’m not even sure if any local models can handle image input (but I’m by no means an expert in local models).
So if you’re going to need the data center to process it, then you run into the same issue Microsoft did when they announced the OS feature where they took screenshots of your desktop all the time for advanced search or whatever. People consider it to be a privacy issue.