@MaximeRivest: This image makes me, even more bullish about Linux and AI. 6 years ago, I bought a DELL xps 13 2 in 1. I immediately re…
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A user recounts how the AI model FABLE! successfully reverse-engineered and fixed a webcam driver on Linux for a Dell XPS 13 laptop, highlighting AI's advancing capabilities in resolving technical challenges.
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This image makes me, even more bullish about Linux and AI.
6 years ago, I bought a DELL xps 13 2 in 1. I immediately removed Windows and installed ubuntu. Most things were working great. The webcam was not. I spent a weekend looking for solutions online, there was none. Nobody had written the driver for that webcam.
About 1 years ago, I tried asking AI to solve it. They told me they can’t, and said that nobody wrote drivers for it and we did not have all the information to do it.
Yesterday night, FABLE! reversed engineered it and got this picture of my living room! While I was sleeping, my webcam got fixed.
This webcam issue was SO known that even FABLE! agreed to reversed engineer it (a model known for aggressive cybersec filters). This was not in any models training set. The steps to accomplish that were!
I had accepted as a fact of live that this particular laptop with linux would just never have its webcam working.
I was wrong, now it does!
It really truly is the year of linux!
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