Canonical wants to IPO with AI buzz shit.

stt AIs and thing like this could be really good for accessibility, however, I doubt they think about that they wdo this for anything but buzzwords.

I actually think this is good as it is local and not cloud. I have wondered for years why this has not been implemented. I believe it might set a new standard as what should be included in a distribution. Just imagine how this can help old people that usually type slow. Yes, I want Jarvis as well. Just easy to install but not preinstalled.

Anything similiar being developed for Plasma?

We had Microslop, now we have Slopuntu

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.

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.

I think Ubuntu is the Windows 11 of Linux distros.

Bit of a click baity title lol. If there’s one good use of AI, its probably accessibility.

My grandma used to hate tech until she learned to use the voice assistance on her mobile phone. It unlocked the phone for her because she doesnt have the dexterity to type. I hope one day this tool could get to that same point.

Well fuck you too Canonical.

I'll just leave this here... https://debian.org/

Well they can listen to my voice when I say this:

no thanks

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

Based on what I read/saw and got out of it, I am real disappointed it looks like it's gonna be using genAI instead of another form of AI we've been using for transcription. Otherwise, sounds like trying to be a modern genAI version of that speech to text software I'd see ads for on TV. Possibly good for accessibility, but I'll wait and see after it comes out.

At least they claim the whole thing to be done offline after model installation and it's allegedly sandboxed with the audio data being stored in a memory buffer that allegedly will be erased after the session. So I'll have to wait and see how this all plays out before making more judgments on it.

Canonical can take its AI and walk into the sea

Erm, no.

God fuck them. They are hunting for hype and not making linux better for the masses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHepKd38pr0

One more step towards the discovery of what androids dream about.

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