The death of a robot designed for autistic children proves Apple's on-device AI is the right path

The Moxie robot that used cloud processing for a large language model was designed to be a companion and education tool for autistic children, and it's being unceremoniously shut down by the owners. This absolutely insensitive and destructive move practically demonstrates that Apple's on-device approach is right. Moxie Robot is now dead Launched in 2020, Moxie was billed as an AI-based robotic companion for children. It offered hope to parents of autistic children with the possibility of helping...