Torvalds spoke at the Open Source Summit in Vienna earlier this month, where he expressed his impression on the current state of AI:
I: What are your thoughts on the modern technologies that are happening these days?
L: Just be specific.
I: Let’s say GenAi for example.
L: Yeah, just I was assuming you are aiming for. You know what? I think that AI is really interesting
and I think it is going to change the world and I at the same time 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 because I think the whole tech industry around AI is in a very bad position and it’s 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 every day for real workloads […] I really hate the hype cycle and it’s not just AI, it is an industry problem. I mean before AI a coupe of years the only thing people talked about it was crypto and I don’t like the hype cycle and part of it is I fundamentally am the kind of person who I find something interesting and I stick to it, this is why I’m doing the kernel 30 years later right?