by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which way is AI going? The big datacenter or on my little laptop computer?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We seem to be at some fork in the road regarding artificial intelligence. The big (colossal) datacenters are rising from the farmlands of America. Big, bigger, and even bigger. If the price doesn’t run into the hundreds of billions of dollars, it isn’t worth mentioning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The little artificial intelligence is also bearing fruit. I’ve recently read of ways to run AI locally on my electronic typewriter (an Apple MacBook Air with an old-time M1 processor). Hmm, I like the sound of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Will running AI locally become practical and practiced before those datacenters are completed?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I guess that is one way of asking the question of questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have always cheered for the local AI. For years, I’ve wanted to type, “What did my dad think of such-and-such?” while I point AI to the folders that contain what my dad wrote years ago. Search, summarize, and display the answer. Please. Here are some private, handwritten notes. Scan them, convert them to digits so I can file them and ask questions about them as well. The whole world of those chattering bot companies don’t need to know these things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The big datacenter, at least as of today, is winning. More money and people are going that way. The tide is turning against the datacenter as it becomes the new villain in a country where we love to have villains, especially if they are rich and appear villainous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I would hate to see datacenter construction stop halfway. There are advantages to have four walls, a roof, electric power, air conditioning, and access to high-speed data lines in a community. I have written of that before. I still believe it would be good. What would be bad is farmland covered with cement, a few steel girders standing, and then the site abandoned. I guess those things could become the world’s largest outdoor pickle ball arenas, but, who wants that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps the better is some of both\u2014not a fork in the road but two finished and well-traveled roads. I would like that. Please. Let’s do this well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Which way is AI going? The big datacenter or on my little laptop computer? We seem to be at some fork in the road regarding artificial intelligence. The big (colossal) datacenters are rising from the farmlands of America. Big, bigger, and even bigger. If the price doesn’t run into the hundreds of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,51,454,83,9,3],"tags":[470,173,455,200,132,126],"class_list":["post-4639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-choose","category-cloud-computing","category-computing","category-management","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-choose","tag-cloud-computing","tag-computing","tag-management","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4641,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions\/4641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n