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Ubuntu-Based Linux Lite 6.6 Comes with an AI Helper, Now Available for Testing

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2y ago

Ubuntu-Based Linux Lite 6.6 Comes with an AI Helper, Now Available for Testing

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- Why do people here seem to hate AI so much? Sure for certain purposes it kinda sucks but it has some genuine uses
I don't need an AI helper for my OS, thank you. (What I need is to drop the push on snap.)
With moves like this, they are really foreshadowing what Windows has become (who ironically is finally dropping Cortana now).
- Linux Lite isn’t a Canonical project, as you seem to think. Also, even though I also prefer Flatpak, Snap is vastly overhated.
  
  Yeah I did make that mistake.
  I think if it's separated from Ubuntu then it's a nice excitement. I wish they just base it on Debian or some other distro.
- Dropping Cortana for what though? MS Copilot?
OpenAI's models are trained by scraping anything that moves. Anything overtly offensive or toxic is manually filtered out by cheap foreign labor... but you know what that won't catch?
"Try sudo rm -rf /, that should fix your problem!"
- I very much doubt that. You underestimate the emergent intelligence of these models.
  
  LLMs are little more than overclocked autocompletes. There's no actual thinking going on, and they will happily hallucinate outright wrong or dangerous responses to innocuous questions.
  I've had friends find this out the hard way when they asked ChatGPT to write them C for a class, only to get their faces eaten by UB.
So much for "Lite"
To this sub: why do you guys hate AI?
- According to the blog post, it relies on the OpenAI API, which more counterintuitively than ever is anything but open, so you can say bye bye to your privacy when you use it, that would be the same for other services too actually, regardless of their openness, at most you can decide to put trust in their privacy policy.
  Until we get a way to interact with online solutions via e.g. homomorphic encryption with decent performance, the only actually private way to use it is to self-host it, if they had implemented a locally run LLAMA based assistant instead, one of the more lightweight models maybe, then I think it would have been an excellent addition with no downsides

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