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.

Canonical can take its AI and walk into the sea

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".

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.

More AI stuff as usual, waiting to see demonstration how this will work

Bit of a click baity title lol. Of theres one good use of AI, its probably accessibility.

Out of curiosity would it be accurate to call this sort of technology generative ai, or just machine learning? Or it depends on the implementation?

I feel like most of the anger around ai is because gen ai has a bunch of harmful baggage, and I'm curious if this is an example of gen ai having a productive use case, or an example of ai being more useful outside of gen ai specifically

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.

Implicit optional features to use local LLMs for STT is something that I think most reasonable people could get behind. Too many accessibility tools for the disabled sit behind paywalls and subscription models.

Erm, no.