Offline-only speech-to-text, integrated with the desktop for push-to-talk voice typing? That’s the kind of AI that I’d like to see. Actually add features that can help people without harming their rights. I’m still moving new machines to Debian but this is nice.
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
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.
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.
The framework split things into two groups, implicit AI that quietly improves what you already use and explicit AI that are features you’d actually summon on purpose.
The very first paragraph already upsets me. Have in mind, I would criticize this on every other operating system too. I believe no one should use Ai tools that act autonomously in the background, to improve or change what you already use. It should always be a “summon on purpose”.
I think Ubuntu is the Windows 11 of Linux distros.
Canonical can take its AI and walk into the sea
You don’t like accessibility?
Not for that price.
The “price” of a free offline speech to text AI model? Three of them, actually, to work with varying levels of compute resources available?
You anti-AI folks are friggin’ ridiculous.
I admit I don’t know the details, but the title makes it seem like there is a “product” there, by a “company”, probably in it for the profit. And since there is a huge problem with datacenters as it is, why would we encourage more? Most of you AI enthousiasts are blindly walking us into a pit of regret.
I admit I don’t know the details, but the title makes it seem like there is a “product” there, by a “company”, probably in it for the profit.
You don’t know more than the details - you don’t know anything about it.
And since there is a huge problem with datacenters as it is, why would we encourage more? Most of you AI enthousiasts are blindly walking us into a pit of regret.
Guess you’ll want to research what “offline” means. I doubt you have any idea what any problems with datacenters are either given your… we’ll call it “knowledge” of the situation.
Fuck AI.
Well “reasoned” argument there. You’ll go far in MAGA.
You want “reason”? AI is a jumped up chatbot with delusions of grandeur that jacks up energy prices, consumes a stupid amount of scare water and throttles the supply of computer parts just to tell people there are 5 Rs in strawberry and that they should kill themselves. Not to mention the outright theft of the works of authors, designers, and artists.
FUCK. AI.
And fuck you for comparing me to those shit dribbling twats in MAGA.
Thanks Canonical…I’ll just throw it in the pile with all the other “wonderful” things you’ve made. It can go on the shelf next to Mir.
Well fuck you too Canonical.
I’ll just leave this here… https://debian.org/
God fuck them. They are hunting for hype and not making linux better for the masses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHepKd38pr0
One more step towards the discovery of what androids dream about.
More AI stuff as usual, waiting to see demonstration how this will work
