Good questions. I guess if you can trademark Apple, you can trademark kernel. But just as you don't have to respect the Apple trademark when talking about apples, I doubt you have to respect a kernel trademark when talking about kernels.
It doesn't just rub me the wrong way, it's actually bugging me. The hubris of claiming an exceptionally well-defined word in concurrent use in computing from the very beginnings of modern operating systems is staggering.
Their prior branding was even worse – its used to be OS2 before they went with rabbit. OS/2 is a thing, but they went with OS2… really? My guess is it’s a relatively young technical team.
Personally, I feel like I can direct a computer to do what I want way more precisely using a terminal (or even classic GUI) right now than I ever could using the ambiguity of natural language.
I wonder if it may be the other way actually. Helpdesk has own knowledge, training, expectations, etc. Given enough data, AI can dispassionately adapt to common user misconceptions, unofficial names, ignore terrible grammar, etc.
Whenever I get on a call with an automated system, the first thing I do is figure out what do I need to tell it to dispatch me to a human in the shortest amount of time, sometimes I purposefully phrase it in a way that I know a machine cannot understand.
If I go though the trouble of making a call, then it's usually a complex problem that had no solution in the UI of the service that I am using, therefore it's highly unlikely that some automated system can solve it, if it could, there would probably be a button for it already.
i asked it to play an album and it started streaming me the screen from a remote ubuntu instance asking for my spotify credentials -- press command+shift+i to bring up the window menu
I don't understand this at all but the demo was very disappointing. Basically just a Siri-style AI to talk to that can schedule tasks. Not very inspiring
They don't lay it out clearly but it seems that they're aiming for a mobile device that allows you to dispatch tasks that are done in the cloud using natural language.[1]
I think this is exciting, it gives me vibes of LCARS and voice commands from Star Trek. Whether it turns into something more than hype we'll have to see.
I find the idea of putting a natural language model in front of my OS silly and misguided, because I naturally know how to use my computer and translate my thoughts into actions on the mouse and keyboard swiftly. Putting a (probably poor quality) text input as a barrier feels like it would degrade my experience
I want to balance the overall negative response here. I think people's criticism falls into one of the following categories:
- "This is AI bullshit.":
I haven't tested it extensively, but I think giving LLM's or similar constructs the ability to execute tasks and perform actions is the next step in AI capabilities. So this makes sense to me.
- "This is not an Operating System."
Maybe we need to rethink what an Operating System is. As long as computers were boxes under our desk, an operating system was the thing that operated these boxes. Now computers are everywhere and - when connected to each other in the cloud - form sort of higher level computers. Calling a system that operates the higher level computer an OS is legitimate in my eyes.
- "They put TM behind Kernel"
Ok, that one is weird.
> - "This is not an Operating System." Maybe we need to rethink what an Operating System is. As long as computers were boxes under our desk, an operating system was the thing that operated these boxes. Now computers are everywhere and - when connected to each other in the cloud - form sort of higher level computers. Calling a system that operates the higher level computer an OS is legitimate in my eyes.
Or maybe find a better name since OS is already taken and defined?
“ Now computers are everywhere and - when connected to each other in the cloud - form sort of higher level computers. Calling a system that operates the higher level computer an OS is legitimate in my eyes.”
If that is the case then why is a new device (and hardware) justified?
I love how asked about weather it told me it doesn't have access to real-time weather, so I then asked what it can do, and it replied with weather forecast I asked for but couldn't read because immediately it replaced it with "I can do whatever", i.e. the reply to the second question. :D
It seems like a fun idea, though I can't see any situation where it'd be useful to me, whatever it is. But then you add on the marketing, and it just seems like a sketchy startup. The TM mark on kernel (and reusing the term kernel in the first place) immediately raises red flags.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 128 ms ] threadIt would be like General Mills advertising its new breakfast(TM) cereal.
Doesn’t it take like a year to register a trademark? If this is a fresh new startup are these things actually even trademarked?
And can you even trademark a common word like this? Is the trademark the word in that particular font?
And finally, what is the point?
It’s not a registered trademark sign. That’s ®
https://web.archive.org/web/20230808234114/https://www.os2.a...
But the kernel runs in the cloud?
Ah, so it's AI bullshit.
If I go though the trouble of making a call, then it's usually a complex problem that had no solution in the UI of the service that I am using, therefore it's highly unlikely that some automated system can solve it, if it could, there would probably be a button for it already.
There's a reason secretaries aren't really a thing anymore.
"Computer, look through the youtube suggestions on _topic_ and return one that is half hour long and from a respected, but not too popular channel"
I would be very happy
RabbitOS: [grandly] Human Intention Interpreter!
Clerk: What
RabbitOS: I coalesce the vapour of human intentions into a viable and logical comprehension.
Clerk: Oh, so you're a bullshit artist
Nothing to do with an OS, no. There has been a trend for the last 5 years or so of calling cloud services "operating systems".
Seems like I'm just talking to LLM and that's it?
I tried the demo. Most of the time the model understands the request but fails to deliver a valid response.
I think this is exciting, it gives me vibes of LCARS and voice commands from Star Trek. Whether it turns into something more than hype we'll have to see.
[1] https://www.rabbit.tech/rabbit-os
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- "This is AI bullshit.": I haven't tested it extensively, but I think giving LLM's or similar constructs the ability to execute tasks and perform actions is the next step in AI capabilities. So this makes sense to me.
- "This is not an Operating System." Maybe we need to rethink what an Operating System is. As long as computers were boxes under our desk, an operating system was the thing that operated these boxes. Now computers are everywhere and - when connected to each other in the cloud - form sort of higher level computers. Calling a system that operates the higher level computer an OS is legitimate in my eyes.
- "They put TM behind Kernel" Ok, that one is weird.
Or maybe find a better name since OS is already taken and defined?
Same for kernel btw.
If that is the case then why is a new device (and hardware) justified?