The Management demanded an AI cover and here we are. It’s highly likely a machine told them it was a good idea and, to be fair, it is a hot topic right now.
Linux Format has looked at machine learning multiple times in the past, but the latest leap forward with ChatGTP 3 in 2022 and more recently v4 has really fired up imaginations – largely with regard to how corporations can improve profits by making swathes of humans unemployed. From dreary support chat to medical advice, legal challenges and automated news writing to code, art, music and video creation, there’s currently a lot of eyes and puny human minds figuring out just how to take advantage of this new technology avenue.
Of course, this all runs on top of Linux as it’s designed to be rolled out on the server farms of Google, Amazon et al, but this means that with a bit (250GB!) of downloading, you can play around with your own TUX 9000 chatbot, auto translator and robot artist at home. Let’s just not think too long about the ethics of that training data…