KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal
Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user
The KDE project is marking its 30th anniversary at the annual Akademy conference in Graz, Austria. The conference, which begins on September 19, features a potentially controversial proposal for an AI-native desktop. Eva Brucherseifer and Jan Muehlig, long-time KDE contributors, will present a talk titled "What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE."
The talk is divided into three parts: lessons learned from a 2003 usability study of KDE 3.1, the case for an AI-native desktop, and the importance of a sovereign European computing stack. The proposal for an AI-native desktop has the potential to divide attendees, as it would involve personalizing the desktop for each user and device, using a small portable model of the user.
This concept has been likened to the Resonant Computing Manifesto, which was launched by a similar group earlier this year. Critics, such as writer and AI skeptic David Gerard, have expressed concerns about the proposal, but it is still an intriguing idea for the future of desktop computing.
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