What happens when I, a potential new Linux user, need to search for how to make something work on Linux and thanks to SEO and AI driven/created search results I can't find the solution?
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2024
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I wonder if some big AI heads will publish some "AI enhanced" Linux distros, that will also have other issues...
There is a command line program called tesseract that does image to text generation. It produces plaintext from a picture of text. I didn't look into exactly how it works but iirc, image to text that's actually good and accurate needs ai shenanigans.
It's built by Google, but it's open source, and is probably the best optical character recognition by far. It's one pip/pipx installation away and I find it pretty useful on occasion. Same as WhisperAI by by OpenAI. Fully open source and one pip/pipx command away, probably close to the best audio transcription there is as well.
Not sure either count as AI, at least not AI chatbot kind of AI more like more simple algorithms, but they're great in the sense it's just another program but a very useful tool. Not some baked in copilot kind of deal
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I guess id be ok with an installable debian package for an end user controlled llama package with gui avatar interface overlay. Local learning data set storage plus ability to use API calls to injest info from other cloud based llm ai systems when the local dataset doesnt have a reliable answer.
I expect canonical to do it to Ubuntu.
IBM's Watson Enhanced Red Hat
imagine if pop os does it first.
I'd actually be surprised.
Almost definitely.