> All the files are local
From what I’ve seen, most people tend to use cloud document platforms. Microsoft has made Office into one. This has been the steady direction for the last few years; they’ll keep pushing for it, because it gives them control. Native apps with local files is an inconvenient model for them. This sadly applies to most other types of apps. On many of these cloud platforms, you can’t even download the project files.
> You can't really have an AI for your local documents on the cloud because the cloud doesn't have access
Yes, up to the cloud it all goes. They don’t mind, they can charge you for it. Microsoft literally openly wants to move the whole OS to the cloud.
> Same logic for businesses
Businesses hate local files. They’re a huge liability. When firing people it’s very convenient that you can just cut someone off by blocking their cloud credentials.
> We've observed the same on web pages where more and more functionality gets pushed to the frontend
It will never go all the way.
> One could push the last (x) layers of the neural net for example, to the frontend, for lower expense and if rightly engineered, better speed and scalability
I’ll believe it when I see it. I don’t think the incentive is there. Sounds like a huge complicating factor. It’s much simpler to keep everything running in the cloud, and software architects strongly prefer simple designs. How much do these layers weigh? How many MB/GB of data will I need to transfer? How often? Does that really give me better latency than just transferring a few KBs of the AIs output?
