Devconf.cz This year, along with all the usual in-depth technical talks about Linux at Red Hat's Devconf.cz developer conference, there were also several people there to promote AI-linked projects and tech bros' previous favorites – blockchain projects.
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The promise of said projects is that they will change the world and free us from tedious burdens like financial regulation, government oversight and taxation and so on – leading to the undefined and empty (but surely immensely lucrative) web3.
Although this is getting everywhere now, its connections to open source Unix are not obvious, and it is not directly related to FOSS. Of course, the algorithms commonly used to generate and update blockchains are mostly open source. So are many of the tools that generate the gigantic statistical text prediction models that these marketing people are absolutely desperate to make you believe artificial intelligence works. (They are not, and the proof is that they have moved the target by inventing the new term "AGI" – artificial general intelligence – for it.)
But while the tools may be FOSS, what they do with them certainly isn't – and it's clear that the companies building large language models don't own the data used to generate the models.
