Linus Torvalds has it possibly all wrong [Artificial Intelligence] (Was: Hades: fast hardware synthesis tools and a reconfigurable coprocessor)

From	Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
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Subject	Linus Torvalds has it possibly all wrong [Artificial Intelligence] (Was: Hades: fast hardware synthesis tools and a reconfigurable coprocessor)
Date	2025-09-30 08:40 +0200
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Hi,

Was Linus Torvalds cautious or clueless?

"I think AI is really interesting and I think it
is going to change the world. At the same time,
I hate the hype cycle so much that I really don't
want to go there. So, my approach to AI right now
is I will basically ignore it because I think
the whole tech industry around AI is in a
very bad position, and its 90% marketing and
10% reality. And, in 5 years, things will change
and at that point, we will see what of the AI
is getting used for real workloads".

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/101381/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-ai-is-useless-its-90-marketing-while-he-ignores-for-now/index.html

I think his fallacy is to judge AI as hype.
So his timeline 2030 might have received a
suckerpunch by Copilot+ already now in late

2025. Before in 2024, when he made his statement,
AI was already not hype at all:

2009–2012 (Deep Learning Wave): GPUs began being
used for deep learning research, thanks to frameworks
like Caffe and Theano. This was when convolutional
networks for vision really took off.

2012–2015 (Big Data + Deep Learning): Data centers
started leveraging clusters of GPUs for large-scale
training, using distributed frameworks like
TensorFlow and PyTorch (from 2016). Text analysis
and recommendation systems were already benefiting from this.

2015–2020 (Specialized Accelerators): Companies
like Google (TPU), Nvidia (A100), and Qualcomm
(Hexagon DSP) developed purpose-built hardware
for AI inference and training. Large-scale NLP
models like BERT were trained in these environments.

2020–2024 (Commercial AI Explosion): On-device AI,
cloud AI services, Copilot+, Claude integrations —
all of these are the practical realization of what
had been quietly powering research and enterprise
workloads for over a decade.

Bye

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