Get out your popcorn because this should be fun to watch. They’re already vibe coding all of the value and stability out of their OS.
As someone who only still has a Window install because Wine can’t handle the CAD tools I rely on, I look forward to the day when Linux becomes a more attractive platform to release professional software for. I’m not holding my breath for the Year of the Linux Desktop but I can certainly enjoy the ride of MS’s self sabotage to get there.
I’m not much of a programmer and I don’t host any public sites, but how feasible would it be to build an equivalent of Night Shade but for LLMs that site operators could run?
I’m thinking strategies akin to embedding loads of unrendered links to pages full of junk text. Possibly have the junk text generated by LLMs and worsened via creative scripting.
It would certainly cost more bandwidth but might also reveal more bad actors. Are modern scrapers sophisticated enough to not be fooled into pulling in that sort of junk data? Are there any existing projects doing this sort of thing?
Not a definition of intelligence, but something I often come back to is what it does at rest.
To the best of my understanding of how LLMs work, if you’re not feeding the thing inputs, the program is doing absolutely nothing. It isn’t curious and doesn’t seek new information or stimuli. It effectively is just on pause until the next prompt. There is nothing akin to an inner monologue or thought process happening in absence of what is fed to it.
I’m not up on all of the epistemology or theory of mind type stuff, but I’d imagine some might argue about that distinction in humans; we are always processing input in some form as the input from our senses is never shut off until we’re dead. But I think the “at rest” case is a relevant distinction that does get at motivation and real thought born of real intelligence.