Key insights of today’s newsletter: Tech leaders like Andrej Karpathy are predicting the emergence of an LLM-powered operating system (OS). It’s envisioned as a new system built from the ground up, with the LLM as the OS, AI agents as applications, and natural language as the programming interface.
We used English pseudo code as an intermediate programming step 40 years ago. As you say, natural language is not only full of ambiguity, but potentially over verbose for machine application. Gosh, I wouldn't trust an LLM to run an OS. Nor am I clear why human users would want or need to get involved at OS level.
What is an OS? People use this term metaphorically more than literally in most of the commentary I've seen on this topic related to LLMs. Access to common services? Maybe. Manage device and software resources? Less likely anytime soon. Traditionally, an OS is a service and translation layer b/w the application and hardware layers. I think most people assume it will work between applications or between users and applications for orchestration and microservices access. Much more likely. Whether that fits the definition of OS is a different matter. 😀
We used English pseudo code as an intermediate programming step 40 years ago. As you say, natural language is not only full of ambiguity, but potentially over verbose for machine application. Gosh, I wouldn't trust an LLM to run an OS. Nor am I clear why human users would want or need to get involved at OS level.
What is an OS? People use this term metaphorically more than literally in most of the commentary I've seen on this topic related to LLMs. Access to common services? Maybe. Manage device and software resources? Less likely anytime soon. Traditionally, an OS is a service and translation layer b/w the application and hardware layers. I think most people assume it will work between applications or between users and applications for orchestration and microservices access. Much more likely. Whether that fits the definition of OS is a different matter. 😀