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Can Language Models Replace Compilers?

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:January 9, 2024
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:January 9, 2024

Kevlin Henney and I recently discussed whether automated code generation, using some future version of GitHub Copilot or the like, could ever replace higher-level languages. Specifically, could ChatGPT N (for…

Radar Trends to Watch: January 2024

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:January 4, 2024
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:January 4, 2024

More large language models. Always more large language models. Will the new year be any different? But there is a difference in this month’s AI news: there’s an emphasis on…

Copyright, AI, and Provenance

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:December 12, 2023
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:December 12, 2023

Generative AI stretches our current copyright law in unforeseen and uncomfortable ways. In the US, the Copyright Office has issued guidance stating that the output of image-generating AI isn’t copyrightable…

Radar Trends to Watch: December 2023

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:December 5, 2023
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:December 5, 2023

We’re continuing to push AI content into other areas, as appropriate. AI is influencing everything, including biology. Perhaps the biggest new trend, though, is the interest that security researchers are…

Strawberry Fields Forever

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:November 30, 2023
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:November 30, 2023

Tim O’Reilly forwarded an excellent article about the OpenAI soap opera to me: Matt Levine’s “Money Stuff: Who Controls Open AI.” I’ll skip most of it, but something caught my…

Generative AI in the Enterprise

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:November 28, 2023
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:November 28, 2023

Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. Almost everybody’s played with ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, GitHub Copilot, or Midjourney. A few have even tried out Bard or Claude,…

Creativity Isn’t Just Remixing

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:November 14, 2023
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:November 14, 2023

This is not the first time that I’ve written about AI creativity, and I doubt that it will be the last. It’s a question that comes up repeatedly, and that…

Radar Trends to Watch: November 2023

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:November 7, 2023
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:November 7, 2023

Our Security section has grown almost as large as AI (and longer than Programming)—and that’s not including some security issues specific to AI, like model leeching. Does that mean that…

Questions for 2024

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:October 31, 2023
Post category:Online Learning Open Source
Post last modified:October 31, 2023

This time of year, everyone publishes predictions. They’re fun, but I don’t find them a good source of insight into what’s happening in technology. Instead of predictions, I’d prefer to…

Preliminary Thoughts on the White House Executive Order on AI

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:October 30, 2023
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:October 30, 2023

Disclaimer: Based on the announcement of the EO, without having seen the full text. Overall, the Executive Order is a great piece of work, displaying a great deal of both…