Linus Torvalds: Speaks on Hype and the Future of AI

Have you been using AI?

I’m a data engineer that was recently laid off a Microsoft due to them deprioritising data and focusing on CoPilots and core infrastructure. The hype is so strong here that they don’t even see the relationship between data and AI anymore.

People often get trapped with Linus' eccentricity and miss his greatest asset which is clarty of thoughts. I've been using Linux since 1999 and the road map (& adoption) of Linux OS has been miraculous and largely thanks to just one guy....Linus Torvalds!

One individual had an interesting insight: AI should occupy itself with the MENIAL and MUNDANE tasks so people can pursue the emotional creative, and uniquely human side of life!

I use Arch btw

I use AI to get quick answers that I don't feel like doing a whole research on google or Wikipedia. It saves me time. I wouldn't use it to code for me. I have used it to aid me in learning new libraries, frameworks, orms, etc etc. Saves me time instead of having to dig through lots of documentation of some library I can ask it to give me simple examples. It's been a great learning tool.

Linux as an educator of computer system programming!!! WORLD NO1!!!

I'm really starting to get concerned about these models and all the latest developments over the past year. While most people say things like 'this is the worst it's going to be,' 'it's just beginning, imagine what it will be like in a few years,' or 'the improvement is exponential,' from everything I see, it looks like this isn't the baseline. It seems like we've already hit the peak of this technology, which is why there isn't much difference between the models. That's why they're looking for new approaches, like using agents or mixture of experts.

Company where I work has been selling financial compliance system as "AI powered" for the last 5 years and all we have are static rules.

He doesnt care about AI, like he said, he's interested in the CPU and the kernel, AI is just like any other computer gimmick to him, he sees it as software running on CPU at a higher level than the kernel

Great to see my icon Sir Linus Torvald live ❤❤❤

Short version - AI label is akin to the use of "gluten free" on everything.

I think it could also be noted that certain members of the I.T. community should be cautious that they don't inadvertently perpetuate various Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in regards to A.I. and bring about the very realities that they have been fearfully predicting. Sometimes there's a fine line between predicting a trend, and unconsciously causing/creating one.

Linux creator is you

You can run some really old CPU’s on Linux if you have to, but my limit past experience with Nvidia is that it has the firmware support lifecycle of a cheap android phone that expires before it leaves the store shelf.

Ok… and who finds the bugs of the tool which finds bugs? Can you feed the source code of this tool to the tool itself to see if it has bugs? This reminds me to the Turings’s Halting Problem.

for me AI feels like an iteration of Google Search Engine, but that just it... it won't replace anything it just makes things a bit easier to search but not that much tbh. I do use Copilot a bit, but I dont notice much improvement than doing a regular Google Search, but Google Search Engine has got worse over time, maybe AI its not better than a Google Search, maybe its just less worse.

where's the full talk?

Most people have misinterpreted the apparent intelligence of AI as coming from the technology used. In reality the intelligence of AI derives from the intrinsic properties of language itself.

Damn odd. I think I remember watching this video to the end, but Youtube cut it somewhere at 70%.