Don't forget the world of software, especially when discussing the ISA evolution. Yes, x86 is seeing more and more competition on the hardware side. But the world of software is still very strongly in the x86 camp. Or more to the point, the volume of software development in the market as a whole is still largely skewed toward x86. I'm old, so I won't be worrying about the ISA alternatives to x86. It will take too long for any market shifts to affect me before my "big reveal" (shout-out to Tuomas). However, I'm interested in EC's take on this.
@tomlynn1000 Says:
Let's explore how to use AI to get more value out of existing tools. For instance, I'm exploring using PrivateGPT to answer questions about all of the documents that are accumulating in my document store. The store is built using Paperless-NG, which automatically scrapes attachments from my various email accounts and scanner. I plan on using PrivateGPT to provide insights across all my documents. What's interests me here is the intersection of these two tools as a value multiplier.
@mohitsonkamble5822 Says:
I would like to see how to build some projects using Rasberry Pi 5. On internet there are many articles, videos but I would love to see your take on it.
@oskarkilo9033 Says:
If you doing a Raspberry PI I vote for the new Pico 2, because it has ARM and RISC-V in it. This gives it an interesting combination that needs exploration.
@jorgemejias6701 Says:
Regarding AI, whenever I hear or read about AI being used for all sorts of tasks, I can't help but remembering Terminator. Certainly you can get really nice pictures of furry friendly monsters, and beautiful landscapes of distant unknown worlds, but what if an evil individual or, most likely, an evil organization uses AI for their own benefit? Or, more in line with Terminator, what if an AI goes wild and decides humans are a pest? I recently read about a scientific AI that had to be shut down because it started to modify its own code to get rid of some limits set by its creators. I might be worrying too much about something that may never happen, but what if...?
@mrtuk4282 Says:
What might be a very interesting AI video is a way to block Big Tech from using it on us minions, Obviously using Linux and a properly configured Firefox browser but how else can we keep AI out of out lives. I know the obvious first step to to only use a smart phone as a phone and text rather than installing multiple apps which will suck your personal data off to Google, Apple, FB, MS etc. What other ways can we limit our personal data being collected for use with AI ?
@channelite Says:
I think AI topic would be interesting if you talked about the possibility of AI getting really intelligent and the possibility of the end of the human race.
@adfab5344 Says:
It will be interesting wrt ISA etc wrt the (enforced?) rise of a fairly separate Chinese hardware/software ecosystem built on non-US stuff. New thoughts and perspectives possibly.
@thecontentfactory8957 Says:
Hi will you be covering the launch of the rtx 5090 / 5080? Best wishes
@ZeldaGames852 Says:
It is really expensive but amd has a threadripper with 64 cores and 128 threads.
@C-141B_FE Says:
Look forward to your Linux Mint review.
Mint removed SNAP from its distribution install-bits while the mainstream distributions (Ubuntu) continued including it at install by default.
SNAP is pure garbage and contradicts the premise of open source. It's why I'll never go back to Ubuntu and remain on Linux Mint.
@simonlauer9379 Says:
still rocking my ryzen 5 2600
I want a new rig. Do I necessarily need one? Probably not 😅
@ucmRich Says:
no one knows real ai... what they call ai now is a joke and just not worth the time to make videos about more than once a quarter or maybe semi-annual
@bekaheni Says:
In response to your question about what type of AI video you can do. How about how you can integrate AI in your working day with out it costing a fortune! So many AI subscription coming in at $20 per user per month to fully integrate with Office etc, is there away to do it on the cheap :)
@Not_So_Weird_in_Austin Says:
Agree on upgrading hardware. When Windows 10 goes away I will switch to Mint or equivalent for two dedicated laptops running several radio transmitters.
@9a3eedi Says:
I think you should make videos on self-hosted FOSS AI that can run on your own machines... especially ones that you can run on small ARM boards. I think it really fits the theme of this channel, and is very interesting from a learning perspective.
@pecm Says:
_"Visiting some trees"_ lool 😂
@WillTheBills Says:
One thing that I don't see enough of on YT is how to run small AI models on affordable hardware. Conveniently is the intersection of two things you mentioned: the lower barrier to entry in hardware, and artifical intelligence.
Always loved and appreciated your work. Will keep watching regardless of topic!
@marktadlock5428 Says:
I would think building a weather display with an AI forecasting of weather compared to the standard reports
@eglspl425 Says:
As someone who doesn't watch videos relating to AI here is my opinion: I think you're up against a transiently poisoned well regarding AI content. A lot of negative feeling, some quite passionate, exists around generative language models. Many people cannot get over the utility to plagiarists, scammers, and corporations looking to dispose of artists and writers etc. Future AI content might do better, when AI's worthier uses are more widely evident. But while its most visible use is ruining various arts, media and professions it's just not going to excite many people. It has a web3, crypto, NFT stank about it, also. The people who do watch AI content aren't likely to follow an extremely charming and very good computing channel, I think.
@powermonkeys5000Gena Says:
As for AI - more RPi / Jetson image processing tutorials. That'll be great!!
@TruthLivesNow Says:
I have a Linux Lubuntu 18.04 laptop w/ Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, ReactOS, had Longhorn, but expired, Haiku inside the VirtualBox. Christopher, Lubuntu 18.04 is no longer supported. I would like to figure out the easiest way on how to update the Linux Operating System without having to put in all those Operating Systems with their Software within them in again.
@Frank-fh2qn Says:
People aren't interested in AI, investors are interested in AI.
@beckyholt Says:
This seems to be the perfect forum to ask a tech question. Do you or your subscribers remember a technology that pre-dated the internet called The CUBE? The CUBE was a technology that allowed subscribers to instantly communicate or participate in instant interactions. The time frame would be late 1960’s to mid to late 70’s. I have checked the IEEEE.
@Theta313 Says:
A topic regarding AI that I would love to see would be ways that we can employ locally hosted AIs for various uses, and how we can actually control and alter setting of our locally hosted AI to suite our needs and not have to worry about it mining our data and invading privacy.
@myroslav6873 Says:
100% true about Telegram. It has become a scammers harbour.
@c.santerre4784 Says:
In response to one user's comment re AI re preserving privacy, I think examining privacy issues in AI would be very interesting as well, to disentangle the myth from reality. I personally believe that my personal contributions to Gemini for example could be making the service better for other users but I'm not entirely certain.
@joerinaldi5 Says:
I have always enjoyed your videos. I think to many AI is a little scary. I think if you mix it with quantum computing it could be a little fast. But even normal computing was scary to many 30 -40 years ago, but once people got to use the technology the mystery was gone and so was the fear. Maybe if you start explaining the basic of AI and explain the technical sides and give some examples of everyday uses and benefits, and demystify AI.
@pardonless Says:
I love that this channel has pretty much the same design since 2012 I bumped into it as a 14 year old boy
@johndoes7739 Says:
I have to check your AI video's but for me it would like see video's about what AI can do for me/us now (where are the most advancements made / where can I use AI for to make our live easier)?
@RichSzerman Says:
Are you planning on doing one on the Xberry PI ?
@JH-pe3ro Says:
I'm a little late to this video but I think there's a convergence underway between a "software regression", an iteration in the core systems, and developments in the software industry towards a unionized labor model.
The problems software developers face now are basically motivated by the "increasingly sufficient hardware" phenomenon. The easiest way to deploy a computer is to use it to generate *wrong answers*. You can always generate more wrong answers faster than right ones. When taken online, that creates spam, scams, bots, disinformation, etc.
Interest in retrocomputing touches on this because the older software did not have room to humor wrong answers, other than those done for the benefit of a video game. The features implemented were the ones most in demand for their respective users. Modern software fills space mindlessly and persistently falls into dark patterns made to draw attention, build habits and collect data.
A labor movement in software creates a basis for properly representing interests other than those of the capital markets, and I believe that is a foundational step towards fixing the "lasagna layers" of dependencies that result in software that can't be built without handing over too much trust to potential adversaries.
AI and blockchain applications converge with each other in that they present a ying and yang: both are capable of facilitating extremely wrong answers, but they can also be effective at doing very narrow things very well, as evidenced by the Waymo cabs that go around my city now. I think they have a disruptive role in this space because, when used in a sector without strong labor organization, the abuses are many and notorious. They act to generate the crisis, but simultaneously provide some radical alternatives.
@scottwatschke4192 Says:
Thank you
@georgegenerke1553 Says:
Sorry I'm late to reply, it's been over a month since I last watched your video's. After watching this video on Update July 2024, I thought I'd at least respond to your confusion about how to get across to more viewers on AI and cognitive computing. My version of AI and your version of AI are definitely different in my opinion. I recently went through an entire weekend of watching YouTube videos on nothing but AI, and the first video I saw that got me interested in the subject was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgCUn4fQTsc where the first 1:30 minutes of this 10+ minute video convinced me that there was more to AI than what I knew. In short; OpenAI is a major player in the U.S. for developing AI. From their prospective, and particularly Sam Altman, AI has the potential of harming peoples lives. Here he is in a 7+ minute video being questioned by the U.S. congress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l0GVXpN2q4 I'll wrap this up by saying that you should at least make the distinction of your version vs my version (and I believe most peoples version) of AI and Cognitive Computing. I think your version is more in line with Linus Tech Tips where he produced a 14+ minute video that "AI is a Lie" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGIpdiQrFDU I'll leave it at that, and keep making your GREAT videos. 😉
@bertnijhof5413 Says:
Sufficient hardware, I profit from that trend, since I retired on 1-1-11. I used the following desktop hardware:
2009-2014; HP d530 SFF (from 2003); Pentium 4 HT (3.0GHz); 2 GB DDR; 320GB HDD.
2014-2019; HP dc5850 (from 2008); Phenom X4 (3.2GHz); 8GB DDR2; 128GB SSD; 500GB + refb. 1TB HDDs (Both died in 2023 at ~10 power-on years).
2019-Now; New ($349) Ryzen 3 2200G (3.7GHz); 16GB DDR4; 512GB nvme-SSD (3400/2300MB/s); 128GB SSD and 2TB HDD (~1.5 power-on years).
The current software; a minimal install of Ubuntu (since 2008) with VirtualBox (since 2009) and OpenZFS (since 2018). In 2018 I moved all the applications to VMs and the system runs 1 to 3 VMs at the same time. VM boot times are between 6.5 to 7.5 seconds (Xubuntu 24.04 LTS) and 50 to 60 seconds (Windows 11 Pro). The performance is still sufficient, but due to more complex software, I see an increase in CPU usage and memory usage from say 10% to 20% compared to April 2019. Time for a mid-life upgrade to a Ryzen 5600G and 32GB DDR4. That should be SUFFICIENT till 2030 :) :)
@joseph_donovan Says:
Never mind about AI Chris, what about the disturbing proliferation of Blue-Tak on your desk?! Where is Stanley the knife when you need him to protect you against the Blue Tak blobs?
@f.a.j.4685 Says:
Would be cool if you could do videos about raspi pi5 pihole, NAS OMV, and on, as i couldn't find good content which lags one, or the other part.😅
Love your way!
@GARY-v7w Says:
Not looked, but have you done, using your phone as a desktop?
@Superdooperhero Says:
Best Android TV box would be nice and what PC attributes to get for future AI needs.
@nefelejtselirni Says:
AI... Maybe a video where you show what AI you use the most.
@jpdurr Says:
Cyborg Fusion? Really?
@thomasmcguire2227 Says:
Oops, "digital printing" should be "3D printing" in my last comment.
@thomasmcguire2227 Says:
Since you asked, how about a look into soldering in light of digital printing (a filament with heating head). Someone has thought of a filement with a graphene (metallic carbon) core by now.
Also , I am trying to convert an old video camera to easy-to-handle digital cards. I already solved the sealed lead-acid problem but, my battery can only give 2.8 amps at 12V. I wonder if the hi-res hat would work on a Pi4?
@montecorbit8280 Says:
At 13:09
AI....
You said AI gets great feedback, but poor views. I may have an idea of the reason why! AI fatigue!! You are standing in a crowd trying to deliver a message while everybody else is trying to deliver their own version of that message. Like smoke in a hurricane, it gets lost quickly....
AI may be important, but we're here in about it every 3 or 4 minutes every day. Some are not convinced that it is the way to go either, I can't say either way....I just know it seems like half the channels on YouTube are talking about AI, you turn on the television you hear AI this AI that AI something another else. It is the new thing to talk about, I am fairly certain I saw an advertisement for AI sunglasses the other day.
While your die-hard subscribers will watch The video because you made it, others may not watch it because it's "just another AI video....".
I hope this doesn't hurt you, love your videos, just trying to help. And that didn't really help, you are asking how to help get the message across. Maybe at least you now May know why the message is getting lost, maybe you would have an idea on how to change things up.
Can't fix it if you don't know what the problem is!!
Thank you for your time....
@ianstorey1521 Says:
As a subscriber for some time, and as a teacher, I find your explanations very easy to understand, given the complexity of the topics. I still find your video of the amoeba (?) eating up stray data a good way for students to visualise big data and its potential advantages.
Maybe people would be interested in an overview of the different neural network architectures & deep learning? Different architectures are useful for different functions and there is a kind of logic behind it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJNHXPs0XDk
@nivmhn Says:
Always look forward to and learn new things from the videos, Christopher. Thank you.
@e_valley2707 Says:
RE: AI (Cognitive Computing) - FWIW -- seems that lots of people meet AI in 'recognition' programs; recognizing Plants (flowers, trees etc.) and Animals especially birds both visually as well as auditory (e.g. Merlin etc). The idea of parameters (features) matched with lots of data seems to make AI practical and real. Just a thought.
@marsrocket Says:
YouTube is saturated with good AI channels, so it’s probably not worth trying to compete at this time. OTOH, somebody is going to make an SBC that can effectively run ollama soon, so you could jump on that process now. Do any of he Raspberry Pi AI hats let you run ollama? What do they do?
@justinnamilee Says:
Honestly, I keep coming back just to work on my impression of the outro, it's been years and I still can't get the timing of "very soon" right. Until I get it down pat, you can bet I'll keep coming back! ;-)
@Billybobble1 Says:
For AI videos, I'd like to see explanations of useful ways we can use this exciting new tool.
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