this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2024
300 points (99.3% liked)

Linux

48310 readers
840 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This has been standard usage for nearly 70 years. I highly recommend reading the original proposal by McCarthy et al. from 1955: https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmouth.html

Arguing that AI is not AI is like arguing that irrational numbers are not "irrational" because they are not "deprived of reason".

Edit: You might be thinking of "artificial general intelligence", which is a theoretical sub-category of AI. Anyone claiming they have AGI or will have AGI within a decade should be treated with great skepticism.

[–] B97@mastodon.social 4 points 10 months ago

@GenderNeutralBro @db2

20 or 30 years ago it was assured that the only variable types we would need now would be int and char......

Because those were the only types rational to humans.....