Re: Including AI into Emacs

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net> [2024-12-06 22:12]:
> On of the issues is to define what is an open source AI system.

Without referring to common definitions, all of computing can be
considered artificial intelligence as it extends the mind functions
and memory of humans.

It is just a matter of development level to determine how far it may go.

At first, it might handle tasks like invoices. It could ask the user
every day, "Is there any invoice to enter?" If the user answers "Yes,"
the computer could then request the details.

On the next level, the computer may not need to ask the user but
could, through observation, understand that an invoice needs to be
entered. For example, it could recognize a customer's face through a
camera, identify the customer, and automatically generate an invoice.

All Emacs programs and essentially all programs in the world are forms
of artificial intelligence.

But now there are fantastic new developments where computers can
recognize pictures, generate new images through imagination, create
videos, correct text, and more easily understand what we think. This
is what we have been striving for.

And common users now can use it without tedious programming, and that
is huge advance.

It is like jumping from shell usage of Internet to graphics
browser. That happened in past, and is now happening with the AI
accessibility for all.

Of course, the notorious Emacs psychotherapist is predating all of the
modern chatbots. 

-- 
Jean Louis