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A collection of 66 issues

Another Big Short

Ed Zitron wrote a well researched, no-holds barred, non-technical opinion piece on the current state of AI. Have We Reached Peak AI?Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a 10-minute-long interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, with journalist Joanna Stern asking a series of thoughtful yet straightforward questions that

LLM's peaking?

One final article on actual LLM performance which is interesting. Then I need to do something else with my Sunday. Evidence that LLMs are reaching a point of diminishing returns - and what that might meanThe conventional wisdom, well captured recently by Ethan Mollick, is that LLMs are advancing exponentially.

What will people do?

In the open source software community tensions are beginning to rise because a lot of projects are being swamped with PRs right now. But it’s become very apparent, very quickly, that the PRs have come from AIs and the people submitting them cannot fully explain what it does or

Wants vs Needs

The good thing about hopes, dreams and ambitions is they can be limitless. The bad thing is that they meet reality eventually (dammit). I can have my super secure fridge with AI that’s built to stop hackers. This is the world’s most secure fridge - but it’s

Yes, but No

Well this is disappointing. Back in November Google Deepmind claimed to have an AI/ML tool that discovered over 2 million crystals including 380k stable materials ‘that could power future technologies’ I was not fond of Materials Science (I blame the lecturer, yawn) but I thought this was very cool

Beyond the hype

This is an interesting opinion piece, as it goes a little beyond the ‘You need to buy a monorail’ hype* Are Expectations For Gen AI Lower Than Planned?At least 90% of the POCs for gen AI that launched during 2023 will not make it to production in 2024. Yet,

You should learn to code

The CEO of Nvidia at the end of last month claimed (again) that there was no need to learn to code. AI would take care of it. Unlike Jensen, I could code - a very long time ago. Oh I could have made money in the noughties if I still

The centre of the Universe

What’s a good use of ChatGPT? Sometimes it feels a bit vague and magic, or a good way to put confidential data at risk. On a UK IT Leaders call yesterday (Vegas rules) somebody mentioned it was very handy for quick code reviews where there wasn’t any great

Be cautious

Cautionary tale, be careful because of the potential hits to your reputation and customer experience: Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbotAir Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.Ars TechnicaAshley Belanger “Air Canada was seemingly so invested in experimenting with AI that

Meetings are broken

A long time ago I learned the KT-method from Kepner-Tregoe for problem solving. It came in very handy when running time critical major incidents, but I’ve used it pretty much ever since. When looking at problems and solutions you can develop tunnel vision very easily (SUPER quickly with Technical