Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT
Imagine for a minute that you’re a programming instructor who’s spent many hours making creative homework problems to introduce your students to the world of programming. One day, a colleague…
Fearing the Wrong Thing
There’s a lot of angst about software developers “losing their jobs” to AI, being replaced by a more intelligent version of ChatGPT, GitHub’s Copilot, Google’s Codey, or something similar. Matt…
Radar Trends to Watch: July 2023
A surprising number of the entries for AI are about generative models that don’t generate text or artwork—specifically, they generate human voices or music. Is voice the next frontier for…
Risk Management for AI Chatbots
Does your company plan to release an AI chatbot, similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Bard? Doing so means giving the general public a freeform text box for interacting with…
AI’s Opaque Box Is Actually a Supply Chain
Understanding AI’s mysterious “opaque box” is paramount to creating explainable AI. This can be simplified by considering that AI, like all other technology, has a supply chain. Knowing what makes…
The Alignment Problem Is Not New
“Mitigating the risk of extinction from A.I. should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war,” according to a statement signed by more than…
You Can’t Regulate What You Don’t Understand
The world changed on November 30, 2022 as surely as it did on August 12, 1908 when the first Model T left the Ford assembly line. That was the date…
ChatGPT, Now with Plugins
A few months ago, I wrote about some experiments with prime numbers. I generated a 16-digit non-prime number by multiplying two 8-digit prime numbers, and asked ChatGPT (using GPT -3.5) whether…
Radar Trends to Watch: June 2023
AI, and specifically large language models, continue to dominate the news–so much so that it’s no longer a well-defined topic, with clear boundaries. AI has infiltrated programming, security, and virtually…
Pause AI?
It’s hard to ignore the discussion around the Open Letter arguing for a pause in the development of advanced AI systems. Are they dangerous? Will they destroy humanity? Will they…
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