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I feel that the AI desktop is really seductive and I'm not surprised a company is using Linux this way, even though I feel it is misguided because LLMs are not the AI we were promised.
Really, it appears like the fulfillment of the scifi future depicted in the pre-home-computing era for automated computing devices using "natural" interfaces. Think say the Jetsons or something. We are free from the keyboard and mouse drudgery of organizing and finding things ourselves,just tell the computer to do things.
A lot of people really really do hate using their computer and this is their dream, for better or worse.
The majority of people would probably use a voice UI (VUI) over a GUI or CLI, but even more so with NLP involved. Hey I want it just for accessibility reasons.
Its just not worth it to rent from cult, facist, or megacorps willing to destroy the world to do it. Local LLMs though are cool, and hopefully we set up for better distributed training again.
KORA is built around that idea. Their "Cortex" engine runs workloads on local LLMs first and will use resources on other computers on the network before it sends work to the cloud.
It's a very good idea and if it works as advertised I suspect Microsoft will offer them a LOT of money for it because it's almost exactly what Microsoft's "Hybrid Intelligence" is trying to do.
Local LLMs can be really useful if your hardware can handle them.