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Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec (www.businessinsider.com)
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Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec::In an interview with Bloomberg, Dave Limp said that he "absolutely" believes that Amazon will soon start charging a subscription fee for Alexa

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[–] ours@lemmy.film 4 points 1 year ago

"AI" doesn't use databases per se, they are trained models built from large amounts of training data.

Some models run fine on small devices (like the model running on phones to make better pictures) but others are huge like Open AI's LLM.