GNOME's Newelle AI assistant

As spotted by ZDNet, GNOME's AI assistant, Newelle, is now ready for its 1.0 release. As you might imagine from a Linux project, you have a lot of control over Newelle, including not installing it at all if an AI assistant isn't something you want on your PC. If you do, you can pick and choose which LLM Newelle uses instead of making-do with a pre-set one.
Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linuxs-gnome-based-ai-assistant-released/

It looks like it's very similar to Alpaca. I suppose it has a few extra niceties like the ability to read documents and generate commands... Mmm, I would be very careful with that.

The Question would be here: How long can I decide that? To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised when it will be implemented in the Gnome Desktop and You can't uninstall it.

Not only generate Commands. Running Commands. But to be fair: To be able to do it, You have to use Flatseal to give it Permissions that it can do it.

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That's what I meant, sorry... but I wouldn't mind to have the ability to see the command first before I agree to it.

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Here a little teaser:

and here (post #7 the lucky number) finally the real deal:

Be great to have an AI that could perform all the manual stuff around a PC. Saw a PC with an array of built-in mics and twin speakers - the theory being that you just tell the AI what to do and it will say 'yes.' Capable of running a smaller LLM locally, but not really high-powered enough to run a large one.
Model Size Recommended VRAM
Small LLMs 7B - 8 GB
Medium 13B - 12 GB
Large 30B - 24 GB

(On top of that, need a kernel at least 6.15 plus the firmware)

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Yep totally, welcoming Terminators to your doooooom!


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I can just imagine.

A.I.: "I'm sorry, 'open a terminal' is not in my vocabulary, but I can launch the latest Terminator. It's name? rm -rf" :rofl:

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