Radar Trends to Watch: May 2024
In the past month, we saw a blizzard of new language models. It’s almost hard to consider this news, though Microsoft’s open (but maybe not open source) Phi-3 is certainly…
To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money
Learn faster. Dig deeper. See farther. Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the…
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TL;DR: Learn the fundamentals of Amazon Web Services and prepare to earn professional certifications with the 2024 AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and Architect Certification Bundle, just $24.99. Technology advances quickly.…
Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents
Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that…
Attacking Supply Chains at the Source
We’ve been very lucky. A couple of weeks ago, a supply-chain attack against the Linux xz Utils package, which includes the liblzma compression library, was discovered just weeks before the…
Quality Assurance, Errors, and AI
A recent article in Fast Company makes the claim “Thanks to AI, the Coder is no longer King. All Hail the QA Engineer.” It’s worth reading, and its argument is…
AI Has an Uber Problem
Learn faster. Dig deeper. See farther. “The economic problem of society…is a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality.” —Friedrich A. Hayek,…
Radar Trends to Watch: April 2024
There are lots of new models, including one from Apple, but that’s hardly news. AI news is infiltrating other sections of Trends (particularly Programming and Security)—but that’s also hardly news.…
ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote
TL;DR LLMs and other GenAI models can reproduce significant chunks of training data.Specific prompts seem to “unlock” training data.We have many current and future copyright challenges: training may not infringe…
Vacuum Tubes and Transistors
I’ve had a ham radio license since the late 1960s and observed the transition from vacuum tubes (remember them?) to transistors firsthand. Because we’re allowed to operate high-power transmitters (1,500-watt…
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