Technology

I would like to see one integrated into a gnu os like linux where its only capability is to understand the os and guide you through it. No generation and no expertise outside the os exosystem. Maybe allow for it to be given the privelege to search the web. I would have it have capability to use other ais to perform other tasks so modules or whatnot could be added to give it more capability as a general computer butler type. Basically an os that acted like a start trek computer.

There are efforts there. The new Deepseek 4 compresses a lot of its knowledge using something they call engrams. But it's unfortunately still too big for a consumer GPU.

Gemma 4 is small enough to run on your cellphone.

If your GPU has at least 8GB there are a lot of options for self hosting your own local models

If I understand correctly, if we actually said "this model is great, let's put a pin in it", then it could be turned into a dedicated chip that would be much more efficient and perhaps even something that could get embedded in consumer hardware - but then you are just stuck with that model instead of "the next shiny new model" that they keep making.

I feel like there is a future of more targeted AI. At the moment something that does spreadsheets has to carry knowledge of programming and chemistry and lots of languages and this seems very heavy for what ultimately we need. A programming language focussed AT dedicated to Rust or Go or Java could potentially be quite a bit smaller especially if they focussed on algorithm snippet and auto complete smarts. There is definitely a market for smaller more targeted uses than these all encompassing chat bots where the goal is to move the state of the art on for existing algorithms.

You must be new to the IT then.

Clouds are only US, and they hold all the data and traffic for most of the world.

Before them, operating systems - everyone and their mother using Windows.

Phones? Google or Apple.

Communication? Teams. Shared documents? Exchange. Countries are balls and hair deep in the US since the 90s and nobody really cared to do anything about it. SAP, Sellsforce, Palantir, Jira, Confluence, Github, many others I'm not even aware of, all US companies holding everything that companies and countries need in the US way before any AI. Which doesn't even fucking work.

None of this is new.

Alternatives are there, but they need the money everyone sends to the US.

Yeah, that's what I really don't get.

Why would any serious company think it's a great idea to outsource all your intelligence work to a handfull of US companies, making yourself wholely dependant on their goodwill and the goodwill of the US government?

So much this.

If we take a look at how the current AI behemoths got there, there’s a trail that goes straight from stolen data to proprietary models. They are charging their users for the privilege of using better aggregated public data. I hope that, when they raise prices once again and more and more users are cut off their larger models, people would understand where their place is, according to corpos.

Yes it is. If the rich and governments have it, then it’s existential. Since it’s here, it’s now existential that the people can run these intelligent systems as well.

You all trying to curtail this tech by making it illegal in various capacities for the people is fighting for the rich, the mega corps, and the empires of this world.

It is now. If you want it not to be, go ahead and stop all this modern bullshit happening around me.

You can't yell at people on the ocean that they don't really need boats, and then attack boats. I mean you can, but it's foolish and unproductive.

It's not going to. Saying all AI should stop is like saying "all gunpowder should stop". Would everyone be better off if no one was using it? Maybe. But that's not going to happen at this point, and will give you a strategic disadvantage if you unilaterally disarm.

And to be clear I'm not talking about using AI to write a screenplay or something creative, I mean like using it to write software, to optimize industrial processes etc.

game theory, my friend. You can't stop if there's a chance someone else is building it. The only way to prevent this would be some sort of AI proliferation treaty like we have for nukes but nukes you test by making large explosions which are easy to detect. How are you going to detect some state backed group in a bunker somewhere disconnected from the internet developing a super AI? I'm fully against ai but the cat is already out of the bag.

Not many people can afford to run their own models.

You can run AI without causing environmental problems just like you can drive cars without burning fossil fuels and you can have industrial production without creating pollutants.

All of that just cuts into the profits though.