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Can it forget?

Interesting. This might be why a lot of tools aren’t currently being released in the EU? Pesky ‘Right to be forgotten/erasure’ eh? Making AI models ‘forget’ undesirable data hurts their performance | TechCrunchA new study finds that making generative AI models ‘forget’ information hurts their performance on other tasks,

Show me the other money

This is a long but good read. Zitron really researched this. How Does OpenAI Survive?Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to accumulate money and power, the desperation of the most powerful executives to maintain control and

Model collapse again

Ah ‘Model Collapse’ is rearing its head again. So the problem still stands. I haven’t seen anything recently on ‘Temporal Degradation’ - but they keep releasing new versions. ‘Model collapse’: Scientists warn against letting AI eat its own tail | TechCrunchIf the models continue eating each other’s data, perhaps

It's Gartners opinion

Interesting analysis from Gartner. Yes, things have been incredibly slow, but do CIOs really have ‘change fatigue’? Gartner nudges down global IT spending forecastMeanwhile, software vendors are left paying the GenAI ‘tax’ as users yet to see valueThe RegisterLindsay Clark “IT services spending is now projected to rise 7.1

ERP Projects always a disaster?

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Same for ERP projects? Far too many cliches in the below. Practically a case study in what not to do. Who cares what the business or users want/need, we have a system to

Ooo shiny things

In Technology we always used to think in 3-5 year cycles. Mostly because it involved hardware. It was very handy for total costing and giving a timeframe to determine what was next. To think in terms of a lifecycle. The age of Cloud and SaaS has turned that on its

A Year of building with LLMs

This is not a short read but could be an interesting series. It will be split into tactical, operational and strategic. This is the tactical part. What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part I)O’Reilly MediaEugene Yan, Bryan Bischof, Charles Frye, Hamel Husain, Jason Liu,

Google with a late night announcement

Ah late Friday announcements. Google have explained how they deleted Unisupers account - their $125billion pension fund customer in Australia causing two weeks of downtime “Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backupsUniSuper, a $135 billion pension account, details its cloud compute nightmare.Ars TechnicaRon Amadeo Now

Recall is insane

A few days ago I said ‘Wait and see’ about Microsoft’s announced Recall feature. Initial discussions were a bit too ‘Henny Penny’ for me. Sometimes it’s good to base things on facts. The security aspect is concerning. Snapshots seem to be protected only by disk encryption (which is