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Passwords and their Discontents

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:May 22, 2024
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:May 22, 2024

This article originally appeared in Business Age. In commentary supplied to Business Age, I shot my mouth off saying that passwords are a poor solution for authenticating users–but none of…

The OpenAI Endgame

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:February 13, 2024
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:February 13, 2024

Since The New York Times sued OpenAI for infringing its copyrights by using Times content for training, everyone involved with AI has been wondering about the consequences. How will this…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Prompting Isn’t The Most Important Skill

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:October 17, 2023
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:October 17, 2023

Anant Agarwal, an MIT professor and of the founders of the EdX educational platform, recently created a stir by saying that prompt engineering was the most important skill you could…

Automated Mentoring with ChatGPT

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:October 10, 2023
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:October 10, 2023

Ethan and Lilach Mollick’s paper Assigning AI: Seven Approaches for Students with Prompts explores seven ways to use AI in teaching. (While this paper is eminently readable, there is a…

The Real Problem with Software Development

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

A few weeks ago, I saw a tweet that said “Writing code isn’t the problem. Controlling complexity is.” I wish I could remember who said that; I will be quoting…

The ChatGPT Surge

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:August 8, 2023
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:August 8, 2023

I’m sure that nobody will be surprised that the number of searches for ChatGPT on the O’Reilly learning platform skyrocketed after its release in November, 2022. It might be a…