The hardware, the power systems, the cooling systems. They need maintenance.
The OS needs updates, file systems get corrupted.
Fans get dirty.
All the things that you need to deal with in hosting your own server infrastructure you have to deal with when hosting your own AI infrastructure (which runs on servers...)
The opposite of that has been happening for 20 years now with cloud compute.
It won't happen with AI models either.
It's almost ingrained in the American business model now. Outsource everything. Nobody wants to manage a room full of servers when they can spend 2-3x as much and outsource that headache along with the responsibility for it.
Same will happen with AI. Whether that means paying Anthropic that premium or paying AWS.
I'm in a relatively small business, we recently had an outage related to our local infrastructure.
I got pressure from the CEO saying it wasn't reliable to host our own infrastructure anymore even though our total internal down time over the last 5 years is significantly less than even a single of the larger recent AWS outages.
Everyone wants to shuck the chore and the responsibility.
yes. it's an argument that since EVs are heavier than fossil-fuel vehicles due to their batteries, that they generate more particulate emissions (brakes/tire dust) than fossil-fuel vehicles.
it's a wrong argument, but it's still circulated in groups of factually-challenged people
It's infinitely better than HDA2 at tracking and maintaining lanes.
HDA2 cuts out if there is a break in lines more than 50ft or so.
Openpilot can track the slightest of roads, even able to follow off-road the tracks in grass from a leading car.
It does basically everything HDA2 does and then some, and does it much better.
It has a driver-monitoring camera that you control, that monitors for inattentiveness which is much more effective than simple wheel-torque based sensors.
The hardest thing about splicing fiber is not splicing fiber(at least not anymore)
It's cable management and routing to keep things from kinking and breaking while accounting for cable flexing, thermal expansion, and unforseen circumstances like another company lashing their cables to yours for vertical support.
Looks like the first $1000 goal is specifically for maintaining to he NTP website and maybe developers? While the other is a broader goal for the foundation
[11] Ads on Family Hub Cover screens will serve contextual or non-personal ads. Family Hub devices are not collectiong[sic] personal information or tracking consumers.
How are they serving "contextual" ads without collecting/tracking anything?
The OS needs updates, file systems get corrupted.
Fans get dirty.
All the things that you need to deal with in hosting your own server infrastructure you have to deal with when hosting your own AI infrastructure (which runs on servers...)