AI models need a virtual machine

A million years ago in AI time, AKA yesterday, there was a HN post from John Carmack talking about how Meta wasted a ton of time and money making XROS and how nowadays it doesn’t make any sense to write a new OS [1].

And then this post today which makes a very strong case for it. (Yes, a VM isn’t an entire OS, Yes, it would be lighter weight than a complete OS. Yes, it would be industry-wide. Yes, we’d likely use an existing OS or codebase to start. Yes, nuance.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066395

WebAssembly with its sandboxing-by-default paradigm is pretty much halfway there, just need a well defined interface to transfer data and access rights between instances, and creating new instances from others.