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Linux market share passes 4% for first time
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
There are very legitimate usecases.
Better offline translation, image descriptions for the less visually able, being able to search for specific images (e.g. going to the gallery app and searching for all your dog pics). This all could be done offline, privately, using ethically-sourced training data.
Is that how Microsoft will use AI? Lmao of course not
It'll be used as a shitty chatbot that only exists to siphon your data and send it to Microsoft so they can target you with more ads, some of which will be pushed to you via that very same AI "assistant".
You have a point and I was a little too against it. Still, having offline AI will transform any PC into a heater, no?