Linus Torvalds: Speaks on Hype and the Future of AI

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• Have you been using AI?

• Linus and Bill Gates is irrelevant in the era of AI.

• 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.

• AI that catches bugs is ”compiler” – that will be how a compiler would get described by marketing. Compared to 1960s almost every software and hardware we use now is like "AI". So much advanced and magical in abilities compared to a few decades earlier. Full AI means sentience, which opens up a pandoras box of ethical questions.

• This comment section is being weird. Lot's of IT people and only a couple of comments with deep knowledge on current AI.

• as much as I love linux, Linus is a complete tool. his egotistic and rudeness to people completely puts me off on the guy.

• I'm a software engineer and I use AI for the mundane tasks like giving it an interface and ask it to create some dummy data for tests. Or give it a test example, some context and ask it to generate tests. I am 1000000% confident I won't be replaced by AI simply because I know and understand how it works — it's a tool, it has no intelligence per se, whatsoever.

• people love to anthropomorphize everything especially something with the word "intelligence" in it. is the tech interesting yeah sure. can we look at it objectively i hope so. was it hyped to the moon to dumb finance guys yeah and they bought it. is the hype waning yeah thank god now lets all get real.

• Beautiful chairs. I appreciate that you cut this at the time the bad 'joke' was pulled out for a second time. My take on Ai: expect over estimation in the short term & underestimation in the long term. I use Ai as a tool for analysing telemetrics & user preferences in mobile Apps; end user sees nothing but a delightful result; couldn't achieve this otherwise. Functionality will be more obvious with 6G & Edge computing.

• Why is this guy not in prison for inventing git?

• Deeplearning has been underhyped at least to the people in my timeline.
  Anti AI hype is more pervasive and misleading than AI hype.

• 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.

• You can call it auto correct on steroids, but it's over simplified and extremely reductive. It's like going up to an American patriot and saying the constitution is just ink on paper.

• Talk about stating the obvious.

• Hilarius in itself to watch Swedesh people… in general.

• Consider the source. A finished agi means the end of linux. There will be no more need for it. It will develop much better software than Linus ever could, on the fly. On an as-needed basis, and then just delete it so the resources can be used for other things 1 minute later. A competent Ai basically puts an end to his life's work, so it's no surprise he's "doubtful"

• Thanks

• 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.

• who else thought in the first 25 seconds that YT video playback is broken? reloaded YT a couple of times 😀

• leenus

• 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.

• AI is absolutely an awesome tool to add to your developer team's toolbelt.

  But anyone thinking it will outright replace developers are completely drowning themselves in kool-aid.

  I agree with Linux's take. It's awesome but the hype is seriously overblown.

  It's basicaly auto-correct on steroids; and that includes the warning that autocorrect can get things wrong too.

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