The Linux community isn’t like most groups. There is a great deal more tech knowledge they have in common compared to other communities. They like genAI, but they are absolutely aware of the abuses possible with a model that learns by watching you work.
The windows community isn’t like that generally, though there are certainly those there who sound the alarm. They tend to be the people who need MS office or a legacy app for work, or some kids playing a video game. They have no idea how shit works. They only know “it came with windows so everything I use must be windows.” Most windows users are what people think Mac users are anymore. It’s not particularly great at anything.
Copilot is a terrible idea for Microsoft from a publicity standpoint. But they are taking the risk because business majors learned two new letters and now it’s all anyone can talk about. I would like to see more non-x64 PCs out there but that they push the spyware in the marketing for the ARM devices as a blessing of some sort. that sketchy sentinel being built in gives me pause. Because it’s Microsoft, we know they don’t respect users and turn things on after updates that the user had already turned off all the time.
This is why I started “testing” Linux Mint on all my personal machines 6 months ago.
With that said the training data that Copilot Vision could generate may begin a sea change in both AI and the PC industry.
can we make an open source version for this for linux?
Probably but there is literally zero reason to do it. There is no overlap between people who use Linux and people who want copilot.
You would be surprised.
An awful lot of people, including Linux users, are into genAI. And not many understand anything behind it.
The Linux community isn’t like most groups. There is a great deal more tech knowledge they have in common compared to other communities. They like genAI, but they are absolutely aware of the abuses possible with a model that learns by watching you work.
The windows community isn’t like that generally, though there are certainly those there who sound the alarm. They tend to be the people who need MS office or a legacy app for work, or some kids playing a video game. They have no idea how shit works. They only know “it came with windows so everything I use must be windows.” Most windows users are what people think Mac users are anymore. It’s not particularly great at anything.
Copilot is a terrible idea for Microsoft from a publicity standpoint. But they are taking the risk because business majors learned two new letters and now it’s all anyone can talk about. I would like to see more non-x64 PCs out there but that they push the spyware in the marketing for the ARM devices as a blessing of some sort. that sketchy sentinel being built in gives me pause. Because it’s Microsoft, we know they don’t respect users and turn things on after updates that the user had already turned off all the time.
We’ve just had survey at work about genAI, a large part of the devs use Linux and LLMs, yet nobody could explain how genAI works.
I was very surprised.
It’s inferences derived from pattern recognition of large data sets! Jesus, it’s not hard!
But even senior devs don’t know that.
I’ve seen a senior describe the chatbot as ‘expert senior colleague to discuss ideas with’.
Which is horrifying. Cause that’s the most wrong take there could be.
Sounds like that senior has a career in sales.
I haven’t heard of any yet
Open source version of what? Copilot vision?