Technology

I mean that depends? Does it actually work? Does it record all my data constantly and send it to Apple in a continuous stream, or is it fully local? will it actually provide some useful service like better search, will it be able to bootstrap projects for me? Learn my workflow patterns and assist by preparing stuff preemptively, or make intelligent suggestions on how to improve efficiency? Can it attempt to organize my awful, trash filing system of pictures, movies, half-started projects into something less painful to look at? Can it help my computer get out of my way when I don’t feel like being all computery (which I love but sometimes it shouldn’t be the focus)? Can it do these things well and without leaking them to some cloud?

Because that’s what we’ve been trying to make computers do since the PC first came along and I’d fuckin pay for that.

EDIT: to more directly answer your question, no one wants SaaS AIs by the FANG because they’re labor-replacement machines aimed at the ultimate grift; extracting capital out of the capitalists at the expense of the everyday workers. But that doesn’t mean that every AI is a speculative language model trained on the stolen data of all humanity to be used as a tool for class warfare; if they can create a neural net that can focus on other things besides language (or hell? Even language) that runs locally- if they can eat Microsoft’s lunch and create an actual co-pilot; they’d charge a premium as they always do but if it works well enough, it might be worth it.