alt Hacker News> I was told growing up "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket" and yet now my phone has an offline LLM on it.
But does your world stop when the phone is out of power? And does every task require a roundtrip to the internet?
> I was told growing up "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket" and yet now my phone has an offline LLM on it.
But does your world stop when the phone is out of power? And does every task require a roundtrip to the internet?
Offline models are becoming increasingly more capable - merely a few years ago it would've been unthinkable to run the LLM I have on my phone even on my MacBook Pro.
Are you suggesting that losing electricity in the modern age (entirely absent AI) doesn't upend one's world?
You seem to be saying "we should avoid this thing because we'll become dependent on it," but we're highly dependent on all manners of technology for all sorts of things and would seem to be better for it.