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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by IggleSniggle on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:15PM (#40289450)
When you can do all inference at the edge, you can keep it disconnected from the network if you don't trust the data handling.

I happen to think they wouldn't, simply because sending this data back to Apple in any form that they could digest it is not aligned with their current privacy-first strategies. But if they make a device that still works if it stays disconnected, the neat thing is that you can just...keep it disconnected. You don't have to trust them.

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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by chem83 on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:36PM (#40289756)
Except that's an unreasonable scenario for a smart phone. It doesn't prove that the minute the user goes online it won't be egressing data willingly or not.
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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by IggleSniggle on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:43PM (#40289836)
I don't disagree, although when I composed my comment I had desktop/laptop in mind, as I think genuinely useful on-device smartphone-AI is a ways of yet, and who knows what company Apple will be by then.
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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by bee_rider on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:55PM (#40290000)
To use a proprietary system and not trust the vendor, you have to never connect it. That’s possible of course, but it seems pretty limiting, right?
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