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Linus Torvalds on the state of Linux today and how AI figures in its future (www.zdnet.com)

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At Open Source Summit Japan, Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds talked about Rust in Linux, Linux maintainer fatigue, and AI's future role in Linux and open-source development.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 11 months ago (17 children)

Looking ahead, Hohndel said, we must talk about "artificial intelligence large language models (LLM). I typically say artificial intelligence is autocorrect on steroids. Because all a large language model does is it predicts what's the most likely next word that you're going to use, and then it extrapolates from there, so not really very intelligent, but obviously, the impact that it has on our lives and the reality we live in is significant.

Exactly.

[+] [email protected] -44 points 11 months ago (16 children)

It is very intelligent though.

It's not simple to come up with coherent statements on such a wide variety of tasks.

It's not just stringing random words together like predictive text. It understands context in a way that is very complex.

It is more knowledgeable than the average person by a huge amount.

For example I asked it to write songs about squidmas, an imaginary holiday I made up to irritate my children. It was able to rewrite Christmas songs but with a squid theme. That's way more complex than predictive text.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (10 children)

It's not intelligent because it's not thinking.

At least my definition of intelligence is thinking. Otherwise a simple pattern matching algorithm like a regexp is also intelligent, or a sorting algorithm that puts things in the right order.

But I agree it's very efficient and has more data than any single person ever could. It's a computer, they are great at storing and processing information.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

While I mostly agree, I'd like to point out that GOFAI (good old fashioned AI) exists, and at its core it is basically just pathfinding like a* or something similar. And we still call that AI, because it "intelligently" finds a path quickly.

So my main point is that I agree that it isn't magic or sapient or anything, but in a sense it is definitely intelligent.

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