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Re:Why Would Prosthetic Arms Need to See or Connect to Cloud... by fron on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @07:22PM (#17964303)
What we really need is Local AI, not Cloud AI for such uses. It would suck to have to be internet-connected in order for your arm to work.

Want to take a trip into the wilderness? Lol. Power's out and the basement is flooding? Good luck, sucks to be you. I guess "lag" will become a valid excuse to being clumsy in real life.

Local vs connected is a no-brainer for this particular application.

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Re:Why Would Prosthetic Arms Need to See or Connect to Cloud... by valenciarose on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @08:28PM (#17964634)
Local inference with cloud learning isn’t an unreasonable model.
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Re:Why Would Prosthetic Arms Need to See or Connect to Cloud... by dvfjsdhgfv on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @03:30AM (#17966260)
The only acceptable usage mode is a (preferably short) learning phase with the "cloud". After that you disconnect and preferably deactivate all wireless connectivity with a physical switch so that nobody can mess with it.
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