alt Hacker News> AI is much more available to people than motors of any kind
Vacuum cleaners, washing machines, refrigerators, air conditioners, automobiles of all shapes and sizes (private and shared), power tools are all examples of electric motors that you own and can do useful things with.
What electric motors do is give you power over your environment.
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You don't own Gemini. You are allowed to use Gemini as long as your economic value to Google exceeds the cost of the electricity to run it.
With Gemini, Google has power over you.
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The home appliances you list all cost money; Gemini (or ChatGPT, etc.) are all available for free, even on devices you already owned before they were even invented. They could not be any cheaper.
> You don't own Gemini.
That distinction is academic here -- just as a car that I rent instead of owning offers me no difference in "power". I don't care at all who owns the thing that answers my "What is autorotation?" question about a clip I just saw on Reddit.
Gemini was a bad choice of example but how would open-weights model one can self-host on their local device be different than the electric motor in your line of thinking