Linus Torvalds: Speaks on Hype and the Future of AI

Linus Torvalds Speaks on the Hype around AI / LLM and what the future of AI looks like on Linux. Will things like ChatGPT and other AI bots help the Linux Kernel get developed? We'll listen to the Creator of Linux.

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[memnon]

I’m a data engineer that was recently laid off a Microsoft due to them deprioritising data and focusing on CoPilots and core infrastructure. The hype is so strong here that they don’t even see the relationship between data and AI anymore.

[Cryptic]

Finally someone is saying it. ML is a useful tool and will have far-reaching effects, but 99% of the hype around "Put an AI in it and lay off half the staff" is based on natural stupidity, not artificial intelilgence.

[asofotida]

Company where I work has been selling financial compliance system as "AI powered" for the last 5 years and all we have are static rules.

[PM]

People often get trapped with Linus' eccentricity and miss his greatest asset which is clarty of thoughts. I've been using Linux since 1999 and the road map (& adoption) of Linux OS has been miraculous and largely thanks to just one guy....Linus Torvalds!

[henok]

10-15 years ago, the tech industry told us that in 5 to 10 years, there would be self-driving vehicles and no one would drive manually anymore. Tesla was selling their cars a few years ago, promising that your car would be a self-driving taxi after the next software update. Now, we have adaptive cruise control and lane assistants, but we are still driving. The hype is a marketing strategy to collect money from your customers, but mostly from your investors.

[cebugdev]

somebody actualy shouted "thats not hype!" when crypto was mentioned... theyre in a cult

[DavidCalderonNJ]

I use AI to get quick answers that I don't feel like doing a whole research on google or Wikipedia. It saves me time. I wouldn't use it to code for me. I have used it to aid me in learning new libraries, frameworks, orms, etc etc. Saves me time instead of having to dig through lots of documentation of some library I can ask it to give me simple examples. It's been a great learning tool.

[georgeageorgopoulos]

Linux as an educator of computer system programming!!! WORLD NO1!!!

[jeremyhennessee]

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.

[rdailyhadith]

The very real impact of Gen AI is that CEO's and managers actually believe that they need a lot fewer software engineers.

[RusuTraianCristian]

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 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.

[supriyochatterjee]

Great to see my icon Sir Linus Torvald live ❤❤❤

[cesarlabastida]

When linus speaks we developers must listen carefully

[Maisonier]

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.

[JoFFRae]

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.

[doug]

Even though Linus said hes not a "peoples person", his perspective is humanistic and about people and their interests. The guy is a legend.

[gxtoast]

The critical point that needs to be explored and opened up is who really benefits from an AI infrastructure that wraps every facet of human technology, that ultimately automates human interactions with a large part of the human world previously staffed with other people. Who benefits? Who is pushing AI the most? Very, very large corporations and certainly the banking and finance sector. Then there is the resources and energy sectors, and the tech industry for sure.

Now ask the question - Who wrote the book "The Fourth Industrial Revolution"?

[maddevskilz]

Sometimes videos with Linus are a bit hostile. I half expected the attitude towards AI to be a bit acidic. That fact that he is skeptical towards AI replacing developers and that he sees it as a tool makes me feel validated with respect to my own view of AI which aligns nicely with this conversation.

[CrucialFlowResearch]

He doesnt care about AI, like he said, he's interested in the CPU and the kernel, AI is just like any other computer gimmick to him, he sees it as software running on CPU at a higher level than the kernel

[YellowRambler]

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.