alt Hacker Newsa contrarian take that's been eating away at my mind lately:
- if every autonomous self-driving car is going to need some sort of edge AI data center nearby (for instantaneous exceptional incident handling)
- if every household robot is going to need some sort of edge AI data center nearby (for instantaneous exceptional incident handling)
- if there are going to be millions of self-driving cars and autonomous robots joining us in the next decade
...then we will need lots more semi-conductor chips, and data centers in lots more places, in the next decade.
I think the answer here is that we are NOT going to have the Jetson's future with humanoid robots in many homes nor self driving cars taking over the roads. I am less sure about that second one, though, since people in my family tell me their self driving Tesla's do a great job.
But those silver boxes at the side of the road? Might see many more of those, and much larger, maybe red hot on top