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Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout the Next Year

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Re: Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout the Next Year

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Post by estimator7292 »

They're going to be adding a bunch of AI features. They don't have any plan for what the features are, but they will definitely be AI.

This is almost as dumb as rebranding a shoe company as an AI company, or your tea brand as a blockchain brand.

The only clue they have is the incredibly generic "explain system logs". That's it, that's the only AI feature they've come up with so far. What an absolute load.

Re: Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout the Next Year

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Post by lunar_rover »

red-iron-pine wrote: post #9
lunar_rover wrote: post #5

Hopefully they're bringing existing ML features from other systems to Linux.

and what would those features be, exactly? and why couldn't i just 'apt install' them in myself, if/when i wanted them?

> and what would those features be, exactly?

Have system search index image, video and audio contents, for example. So you can type dog and media with dogs in them will show up.

> and why couldn't i just 'apt install' them in myself, if/when i wanted them?

Because as of now you can't 'apt install' nonexistent packages.

Re: Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout the Next Year

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Post by esbranson »

I'd rather the system start managing models rather than each app doing their own thing. Whether that's engineering for and supporting KServe and inference snaps, an Ollama systemd service, or something else I don't care. But it's time to get serious about system tooling around AI.

Re: Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout the Next Year

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Post by tomalbrc »

lunar_rover wrote: post #23
red-iron-pine wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and what would those features be, exactly? and why couldn't i just 'apt install' them in myself, if/when i wanted them?

> and what would those features be, exactly? Have system search index image, video and audio contents, for example. So you can type dog and media with dogs in them will show up. > and why couldn't i just 'apt install' them in myself, if/when i wanted them? Because as of now you can't 'apt install' nonexistent packages.

AI does not let you 'apt install' nonexistent packages either
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