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Being real, this is why I fucking hate the bullshit, corporate greed hype of LLMs and generative software. All the "bubble" shit? It tars all versions of the technology with the same brush.
This? This is exactly what it should be used for. And, ffs, earlier speech to text was really the same fucking thing in essence. Software that took input in the form of voice, compared it to a set of data, and made a best guess at what you meant. Yeah, the details are different, but it's the same concept.
This? This is fucking awesome. Locally run, and doing a job that's vital in accessibility, with the side benefit of being useful to others. Assuming canonical is being honest anyway.
But this kind of thing should be the way things are done.
That's why we should not call everything AI
Even if we called them LLMs, which we should, people will keep having these negative connotations to the technology because of overmarketing. This feature is still using LLMs, and that's not supposed to be a bad thing.
Stop blaming the technology, and blame the corpos pushing it to the moon. This is "BitTorrent is only used for piracy" bullshit all over again.
But it is AI, so it should be called that. People should adjust their simplistic notions about the term instead
Nah, it isn't. Intelligence implies independence. What it is is a fancy algorithm with a big data set.
It doesn't have to be general ai to be called ai, but so far none of the models I'm aware of have reached a standard to be called intelligence in the colloquial sense for sure
The term used in academic literature and the field itself for that kind of technology is and has been AI for at least ten years. Intelligence doesn't imply independence anyways? And besides, even if it did, thats why an entire 50% of the term consists of the modifier "artificial". So like, you're right that it isn't intelligence in the colloquial sense. It's artificial intelligence in the technical and standardized sense, though. The use of term is pretty much totally undebatable. Just because people don't like the term now doesn't change that.
This would have been better received if they just didn't use AI in the name. Sure, it's just using an LLM under the hood, but it's running purely locally. It also betters Linux since it helps address an accessibility issue.