Shouldn’t someone who uses Windows get a choice about what AI is used? The AI model or brand or whatever should be modular; if someone wants to swap Co Pilot for a different AI surely it’s someone’s right to do so? Isn’t this comparable to someone choosing the browser?
Second, has there been any security assessment of using AI with an OS? As sure as the sun rises tomorrow hackers will be see an opportunity.
I want nothing to do with AI bound up with my OS. I will use some AI in a product such as Google Workplace add ons. If that’s useful. But that isn’t bound up with my OS so it’s not a security risk.
I’m not buying the whole AI hype. I agree with Brodie:
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Copilot is useful for boilerplate, and can be faster than a search engine for some issues. But as an experienced developer I agree with the general sentiment in this video:
In short I don’t use it and don’t think it that useful yet.
This devon thing doesn’t scare me yet either. Come back when it actually ships something useful. It seems to impress non-developers, and there seems to be this idea that people wont need to think or understand the machine anymore.
You will still need people who actually understand data structures and algorithms.
Otherwise you end up with NPM is-even()… I’m sorry but If you don’t even know how to use a modulus operator, you need to go back to class…
the web in general is a fucking mess… but I digress.
Locally processed AI can have uses.
But I have 0-faith in any remote cloud AI at this point in time. And I certainly don’t want it baked into the OS level as a forced on by default and difficult to disable or opt out.
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I’m still waiting for AI that can clean my house and make me food, then when I’m sleeping it can take the bus across town and work on building me my house.
I’ve been waiting for that for 15 years now.
Until then, I don’t see a use case.
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I find it funny that the reason the AI does this is probably because it frequently occurred in the training data, which says more about the developers than the ai lol.
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AI didn’t make that package. I was talking about the state of the industry as a whole.
So many junk bloated JS frameworks and garbage packages that shouldn’t even exist litter the web.
That’s what I am getting at. This is a developer problem. That package is 7 years old and gets over 100k downloads weekly by inexperienced developers who don’t know how to program. Embarrassing imo… It’s illustrative of why everything is bloated and falling apart. Too much abstraction with too little understanding.
But now with AI, developers may think even less and let gpt generate their code, if they don’t take the time to truly understand it. Literally brain dead… its a tool not a replacement.
To be clear I am not anti-AI. Its a useful tool.
But this hype is insane and I don’t need “AI” shoved in every orifice, Operating System, and IoT device possible.
I meant to say that it is the reason why the AI includes the package in the generated code, not that the AI made the package itself.
Reminds me of how Alexa was received in 2016-2018 lol.
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And Alexa still isnt even that useful.
Wow it can set a timer and turn on a light, amazing. So could the clapper in the 80’s
Text-to-speech and speech-to-text is useful. Hands free is useful.
Cortana, Bixby, Siri, Alexa are all still largely gimmicks in my opinion.
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