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Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare (www.lifewire.com)

submitted 5 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Half of Linux usage is on the text-based command line anyway, just what LLMs are good at.

You are going to allow an LLM to run commands on your system?

[–] Val@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You could have a command that recommends commands and then you select them on a drop-down list.

Alternatively if the dataset is verified you wouldn't need to worry about it running dangerous commands, since it doesn't know any. Or you could have a list of verified commands that run automatically and any command not on that list requires confirmation.

But this is missing the point that most of the time I know exactly what command I want to run so adding a LLM Is quite useless. The reason so much of linux is still relying on commands is because for a lot of people (myself included) commands are quick and efficient.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago

You could have a command that recommends commands and then you select them on a drop-down list.

Still dangerous. One character (even a space) might make a huge difference. You wouldn't want a hallucinating probability matrix barf out a command and run it only half understanding what it does. By building it yourself, you get a better understanding.

But this is missing the point that most of the time I know exactly what command I want to run so adding a LLM Is quite useless. The reason so much of linux is still relying on commands is because for a lot of people (myself included) commands are quick and efficient.

100% agreed here.

[–] Buttons@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe.

Like, if I could type "extract the audio of this video and re-encode it as a medium quality MP3, break up the audio into 30 consecutive tracks" in a shell, and the next line was populated with the appropriate ffmpeg command, but not yet executed, I could quickly look over the command, nothing looks fishy, so I go ahead and run the command.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago

And it will be optimized for nothing looking fishy, right.