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Canonical's plans for LLM features in Ubuntu |
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Ubuntu developer Jon Seager shared a lengthy post on the distribution's Discourse forum, outlining plans for new AI features in Canonical's operating system. One of the key points Seager raises is the difference between LLM tools which enhance existing features in contrast with new LLM features: "Over the past few weeks I’ve begun to develop a framework to help think about different kinds of AI adoption within Ubuntu. At the centre of that is the idea of explicit and implicit AI features. Implicit AI is about enhancing existing operating system features with the use of AI, without introducing new mental models for users. One exciting example of this is bringing first-class speech-to-text and text-to-speech to Ubuntu. I don’t see these as 'AI features', I see them as critical accessibility features that can be dramatically improved through the adoption of LLMs with minimal (if any) drawbacks. Much of this can be achieved with local inference using open source harnesses and open weight models, which are both accurate and efficient for this use case.
Explicit AI features are those which are more obviously AI-centric, and could include more 'agentic' workflows. This could be for authoring new documents or applications, automating troubleshooting workflows or even personal automation tasks such as targeted daily news briefings. With this comes a big responsibility for us to ensure that the relevant security and confinement controls are in place to prevent unwanted side-effects." The rest of Seager's post shares more thoughts on how Canonical plans to introduce LLM features.
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