How and why you should be using RSS in 2024

the principle remains the same - although the AI is not local on these ambient computers. you need to talk to it in some way, pin it on your clothes - if you can opt out of it by physically putting it away, makes it more controllable.

if it was running on the phone directly, I imagine there would be a few people suspicious it was "looking" at them or their things when they're not wanting it to.

Is the fear realistic? Probably not. But how many times a day does the average person accidentally fire up Alexa/Google Home/Siri? Probably more often than they'd admit - I would also imagine that firing up something significantly smarter that could book a plane for them just because they said so would be absolutely terrifying for some. additionally the audience who is aware and capable of spinning up their own local LLM and the audience for something like the r1 or humane pin don't necessarily ovelap, even if it results in a more ideal, custom experience.

with that said, there's also a project to make an open source version of the r1 running an LLM locally: https://twitter.com/hellokillian/status/1745875973583896950