r/linux • u/MMORPGDev • 20h ago

Development Linux Kernel Developers Plan To Remove "Assisted-By" Tag Requirement For AI/LLM Usage

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Assisted-By-Req
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u/SinnohConfirmed 19h ago

This right here is the core reason why I personally don't like LLMs at a fundamental level. Pretty much all forms of automation pre-LLM were deterministic. Any decision that wasn't deterministic was made by the creator of the machine or the person using it. LLMs automate that kind of decision making. Even if LLMs were efficient enough to run on a netbook and made everything we want with no mistakes at all, I have a hunch that surrendering our minds to tech like this will send humanity down a dark path. It takes the soul out of creating something that no form of automation has before.

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u/WaitForItTheMongols 18h ago

Why does it actually matter that it's deterministic?

DOOM is deterministic - anything that needs randomish behavior uses a lookup table with shuffled values. You could easily swap that function in for an LLM's temperature function and it would perform essentially the same while still being deterministic.

I am not convinced that non determinism is a critical thing.

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u/inemsn 18h ago

I am not convinced that non determinism is a critical thing.

For everyone's sake, NEVER give yourself the responsibility of maintaining a system anyone depends on.

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u/WaitForItTheMongols 17h ago

I literally build life support systems for crewed spacecraft.

You missed the point. The non determinism of AI systems is not the problem with them. It is trivial to take a system driven by RNG and instead drive it by a deterministic number generator. And as I said, doing that would not fix the problems with AI, despite it eliminating the non deterministic aspect.

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u/lemontoga 16h ago

I literally build life support systems for crewed spacecraft.

Just as a side note this sounds cool as shit