What’s funny about current GPTs is how much manual adjustments they’re doing on them, when the whole idea of making them is so that they “adjust themselves” which of course was total bullshit from the start.

attempt at “real” AI

I’m going to argue that there’s no such thing as “real AI”. We are going to create replicas of brains once we understand them fundamentally. I mean to the point we can explain them the same way we know how a CPU architecture works. Right now I think we’re insanely far from that. We barely understand brain diseases or how neurotransmitters work exactly, let alone big structures of neurons.

My argument is, we don’t even know what “real AI” means, because we don’t know what “I” means yet.

Cool, but again, seems proprietary, which is not ideal. Also isn’t it a bit backwards to add artifacts, instead of look for ways to detect artifacts in generated images, so that we catch early and avoid AI in the first place?

I’m going to link this at the current revision, so that it makes sense in the future: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transformer_(deep_learning)&oldid=1333135164

Read the first line from the link, I’ll add it here if you’re lazy: “In deep learning, the transformer is an artificial neural network…”

Do you know what “GPT” stands for? “Generative Pre-trained Transformers”

What were you thinking LLMs use? They’re literally just neural networks stacked as much as possible. That’s why they require all of those data centers, because their only solution to the problem is adding more neural nets and more data which means more hardware, at this point it’s borderline brute forcing. Sure, you can mention the “”“clever”“” tricks they use to “tokenize” words at the beginning, but that’s still a neural net in itself. Don’t get confused by their terminology, every single bit of the “technology” has impressive sounding names until you see how they actually work and smack your forehead so hard it leaves a mark forever.

Well that’s what the project I linked does, although I’m not sure it solves all of the issues right now, it’s definitely a start.

Yep that’s nice, although it seems to be proprietary which isn’t ideal, it’s the last thing we need now. Companies exploited the hell out of everything, now companies/universities exploiting the solutions too, when there’s absolutely nothing stopping it from being open.

I think there are a couple of things here.

I think he’s coping honestly, I’m not sure if he truly believes it’s democratizing anything, he has spoken against AI as well, so it’s weird seeing this contradiction. He has also been very against programming without thinking deeply about the code for so long, again a contradiction. He seems to be coping with all of the work being wasted. All of those years he and others have worked to produce good code, just gone.

The other thing I feel is going on right now is, how corporations kind of took over Linux. At some point they were improving the project, but now they definitely aren’t and he can’t do anything about that. There are many contributions accepted now, despite not being very well done, just because they need to keep going and there’s so much to go through, but there aren’t enough maintainers and probably never will be because of how everything in Linux is organized.

Which brings me to my last point, maintainers. I think he’s hoping that LLMs will be a great tool to help or even replace maintainers, because they can’t deal with the work otherwise.

I think with this whole mess, he’s just trying to keep it together and be pragmatic about it as he’s always done, but this time he’s just losing.

That’s a really cool idea actually. I feel like we need more proper tools and communities for filtering like this.

Wow such an informative comment, great argument. <3

If you don’t root your Android, you can barely do anything. The UI on Android hides all of the ugliness of the implementation and that shows up as jarring bugs, which you can do nothing about as an ordinary user. If you use the manufacturer’s stock OS it’s always a horrible experience as well. They also use kernels which are very far from upstream and have a ton of custom proprietary patches. That’s exactly my point regarding flashy nonsense. And that’s exactly what Windows does as well.

Chromebooks rely on containers and web apps, but once you need to configure your OS, good luck.

MacOS and iOS rely on the company’s complete control of their hardware, OS and apps. They have the most closed system out there and rely on things not changing too much. They also expect users to pay for every little inconvenience.

I’ve been using Linux for plenty of years now, I’m a fan, I love the model, I love the way it’s developed, but I also recognize the issues it has. I love programming and going deep in the system, but that’s not what ordinary users necessarily want. That’s just the reality, the kernel is not setup and documented in a way that would allow easy comprehension and configuration. If you don’t have that, then what can a user do when they have to configure the OS and you always need to do that for one reason or another. Companies like Canonical tried to market a model of keeping the system stable and comprehandable, but it never worked out in practice.

The age old question. You have to understand that Linux the kernel is made in such a way that anything built on top of it will always require way too much from the user. It feels like something made from programmers for programmers, just like how UNIX was designed. No distro will be able to change that. Windows is packed with bandaids to make it behave closer to what users expect, but anything that comes from UNIX has it’s focus in making the code nice, not making ordinary users happy necessarily.

So picking a distro is entirely a choice on how you wanna interact with the kernel’s interfaces, but they’re still the same interfaces. No pretty UI will change that.

Just make sure that the distro you choose has a mature community behind it and that packages are being actively maintained. Make sure that if you file a bug report it will get some attention. That’s the only thing you should care about in a distro, everything else is flashy nonsense.

Edit: Also as you can see by the replies to my comment, Linux is kind of a cult, so beware of that.