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I don’t really see a use case for it on calibre. Maybe others are more creative than I am and can tell me what they would use it for.
As far as I see it on the release notes it is completely optional and nothing gets loaded until the Provider is defined and activated so it’s peachy for me.
Well, have you ever read something and went "what the hell is this?", "I don't get this", "what is an abubemaneton?". Well, now you'll be able to quickly ask AI about it.
I remember having an Oxford Dictionary CD as a child (got it with the physical copy).
Unfortunately, it stopped working long ago (and I didn't rip it), but while it did work, I had quite a lot of fun reading up on word-origins, synonyms/antonyms, pronunciations and whatnot.
I'd honestly rather be able to connect something like that to Calibre (and other programs) with DBus, rather than use AI for a definition. And that was just a single CD (I can be sure, because I didn't have a DVD reader).
So, perhaps some other use case?
AI is not only capable of definitions. In fact... You wouldn't use it for that. But It's terribly good at context. So it can interpret a whole phrase, or paragraph. Maybe calibre even passes the book metadata so it can infer characters, places and broader context.
Yeah, that won't really be doable just by an extended dictionary.
I myself tend to use Google sometimes, to look for stuff like "one word for the phrase ..." and most of the times the AI is the one giving the answer.