China’s homebrew openKylin OS creates a cut for AI PCs

China has jumped on the AI PC bandwagon, with the team behind local OS openKylin creating a cut of its Linux-based software that can run AI models on the desktop. Revealed on Sunday, openKylin for AIPC was touted as including “a series of intelligent functions including AI assistant, intelligent text map, intelligent fuzzy …

[LazLong]

Homebrew OS?

Don't you mean "cribbed OS" in the stereotypical Chinese way of "Embrace and extend?"

[MyffyW]

Re: Homebrew OS?

Let's not stereotype, I mean Linux was a copy from an OS printed in a Prentice Hall text book :-)

[Bebu]

Re: Homebrew OS?

Linux was a copy from an OS printed in a Prentice Hall text book

Not really true, or fair to Linus but I wouldn't be too concerned as he has a thick hide by all accounts. :)

[Bartholomew]

Re: Homebrew OS?

"Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, by Andrew S. Tanenbaum" was published by Prentice Hall, and it does contain a lot of Minix source code. But yea I would not say that Linus copied the source verbatim, but it did help inspire him. It was a very important book.

"... claims that Linux was initially illegally copied from MINIX. Tanenbaum published a strong rebuttal, defending Torvalds"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate#The_Samizdat_incident

[Dickie_Mosfet]

Re: Homebrew OS?

Kylin OS is China's Ubuntu-style, "open source" operating system...

...but with a copyright notice attached.

https://handwiki.org/wiki/images/thumb/f/f7/Kylin_OS.png/1200px-Kylin_OS.png

[karlkarl]

No such thing as "AI".

No such thing as "AI PCs"

Next!

[Bartholomew]

> No such thing as "AI".

An artificial general intelligent (without imitating nature) should require, multiple orders of magnitude, fewer resources than would be required for the current human brain simulation efforts.

An lot of money has been invested into (destructively) scanning dead brains, and simulating them. And the tipping point is just about now for human brains.

Look at the graph (click on it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_brain#Approaches_to_brain_simulation ), 2024-2025 is when simulation of a human brain is technically possible. But yea it is totally infeasible, it would need the power output from a medium to large country 24/7 just to fully simulate one human brain.

So I do agree that there is no such thing as an "AI", an "AGI" may exist today, or tomorrow.

I do not expect that there will ever be an AGI PC, but it would be cool having a brain in a box, like Orac ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_Blake%27s_7#Orac )

[Neil Barnes]

fundamentally change and improve the experience of using a PC

Call me old and cynical, but I've noted that whenever someone wants to change and improve the experience, they usually mean they want me to watch adverts...

In just what way, exactly, does the experience of using a PC need fundamentally changing and improving? Or is this just a get with the program, grandpa, moment?

(Oh, wait, I've got it: the AI will be used to ensure that pale text on a slightly paler background will be made visible? Or it will reflow text to fit a window? Or it will be able to tell a website, hey, this screen isn't on a mobile phone, you idiot? Nah... it'll be adverts.)