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Comment by nightski

10 hours ago

AI being a product is not the future. It's more like an operating system that deserves to be open and free (aka Linux). Unless that happens we are in for a very dystopian future. I wish I had the intelligence, resources and/or connections to try and make that happen.

What we need today is a standard local API (think of it as a POSIX extension). So that each desktop app that needs AI to enhance a feature can simply call that. This way, those apps will need to handle the case where AI is not availabile. This will empower users.

  • All major operating systems Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android have local APIs for using AI.

    • Why would I use those instead of just grabbing a model from hugging face? Are they as good as qwen 30B?