Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout the Next Year

anthk

Good. Let the slopwares collapse into themselves, from GNU/Linux, to Hurd (sadly) and Ubuntu. Trisquel will be damned, but Hyperbola BSD -after Hyperbola GNU- will be like the Phoenix bird. https://arxiv.org/html/2601.05280v2

goldenarm

Has anyone ever seen a person using "context-aware OS" features like Microsoft Recall ?

anygivnthursday

Also in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919835 with the original announcement

lunar_rover

Hopefully they're bringing existing ML features from other systems to Linux.

throwa356262

If they can improve the driver situation and make those copilot+ NPU better supported under Linux I am all for it. But if AI is going to be the new snap, I think more people will switch to Debian despite their ancient kernel and applications.

ryandrake

I don't get this focus on the technology that's driving the features, over the features themselves. Maybe I'm just not the typical Linux user anymore, but as a user, when I think about what I want feature-wise from software, I think in terms of concrete features: I want X, Y, and Z new functionality. If the developer can "use AI" to power it, fine. If they use traditional algorithms to power it, also fine. If they use literal sorcery to power it, great, I don't care. At no point in my life have I ever said "I want technology ABC to power features, but I don't really have in mind what those features might be."

rf15

well, I guess I left Ubuntu just in time for the inevitable AI enshittification. I stayed even as Unity and Gnome 3 made the rounds (which I was also unhappy about), but changed a month ago to a European Linux and Desktop Environment.

olivierestsage

I wondered which of this distros would be the first to attempt this shit. Hopefully Red Hat has more sense

ChrisArchitect

Source: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-future-of-ai-in-ubuntu/81... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919835 )

estimator7292

They're going to be adding a bunch of AI features. They don't have any plan for what the features are , but they will definitely be AI. This is almost as dumb as rebranding a shoe company as an AI company, or your tea brand as a blockchain brand. The only clue they have is the incredibly generic "explain system logs". That's it, that's the only AI feature they've come up with so far. What an absolute load.