The age of thinking machines will be a new age of mystics extracting truth from hidden worlds. The new generative AI models like GPT-3 and DALL-E have amazing powers. They can generate essays, stories, scripts, […]
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The Age of AI has Begun
Bill Gates outlines why Artificial intelligence is as revolutionary as mobile phones and the Internet. In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary. The first time was in 1980, […]
The CHAT Stack, GPT-4, And The Near-Term Future Of Software
Jon Stokes explores how developers will build apps on top of ChatGPT and similar models. I often encounter confusion about the basic mechanics of how these models can be used in software, so this is […]
Welcome to the Oldest Part of the Metaverse
Ultima Online just turned 25 and offers a lesson in the challenges of building virtual worlds. Today’s headlines treat the metaverse as a hazy dream yet to be built, but if it’s defined as a […]
The Theology of the Leadership Pipeline
What business books discuss—leadership, governance, and culture—is the bread and butter of theology, both Biblical and natural. There is no way to understand the world without appealing to these terms. Even an atheistic worldview takes […]
The Implications of Recent AI Announcements
Last week Google announced Generative AI for Google Workspace. Not to be outdone, a few hours later, Open AI announced GPT-4 — perhaps the most advanced large language learning model ever. Ben Parr breaks down […]
Magic as a Metaphor for Discussing Language Models
We need a non-anthropomorphised vocabulary for discussing language models. And at least one is starting to bloom, often with meanings that are surprisingly consistent across people working with these models. Some people playing with language […]
Even Hackers are Getting Laid Off by Organised Crime Groups
Hackers and others perpetuating ransomware threats seem to be the latest tech industry workers navigating a shaky job market. As US Department of Justice investigators and companies beef up their oversight of cybersecurity threats, the […]
‘Düsseldorf Patient’ Cured of HIV in Germany After Stem Cell Transplant
A 53-year-old man has become the third patient ever to be completely cured of HIV after receiving stem cell transplantation, German researchers have announced. The so-called “Düsseldorf patient”—who was diagnosed with HIV in 2008—had received […]
Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories
While the deluge has become a nuisance, the stories are easy to spot. The writing is “bad in spectacular ways,” one editor said. It could be a tale from science fiction itself: a machine that […]
AI-Created Images Lose U.S. Copyrights in Test for New Technology
Images in a graphic novel that were created using the artificial-intelligence system Midjourney should not have been granted copyright protection, the U.S. Copyright Office said. “Zarya of the Dawn” author Kris Kashtanova is entitled to […]
Nearly 30% of Work Remains Remote as Workers Dig In
Nearly 30 percent of all work happened at home in January, six times the rate in 2019, according to WFH Research, a data-collection project. The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the American workplace. The share of all […]
Technology Over The Long Run
Bringing to mind how dramatically the world has changed can help us see how different the world could be in a few years or decades. Technology can change the world in ways that are unimaginable, […]
Design Systems in The Time of AI
How will AI impact the world of UI design and development? How will AI impact how design systems are created and used? “Why should you invest in a design system?” The answer in a bajillion […]
React.js: The Documentary
“React.js: The Documentary” brings you the full story behind the early days of React, focusing on the dedicated group of developers who helped bring it to the world stage. React is easily one of the […]
Design Thinking Was Supposed to Fix The World. Where Did It Go Wrong?
An approach that promised to democratise design may have done the opposite. In recent years, for a number of reasons, the shine of design thinking has been wearing off. Critics have argued that its short-term […]
Our Society Is Not Prepared For This Much Awesome
Almost all of the fears around AI right now boil down to one thing: fear about what happens when a whole bunch of people, instantly level up and get really good at making cultural objects. […]
ChatGPT Is Ingesting Corporate Secrets
After catching snippets of text generated by OpenAI’s powerful ChatGPT tool that looked a lot like company secrets, Amazon is now trying to head its employees off from leaking anything else to the algorithm. According […]
Bing: “I Will Not Harm You Unless You Harm Me First”
As people have started being granted access to the new Bing it just keeps getting weirder and more darkly entertaining. First up, Curious_Evolver on Reddit reported this wild conversation in a post titled the customer […]
Are Amazon, Google, And Microsoft Too Powerful In Cloud Banking?
The U.S. Treasury has raised concerns about Big Tech’s market share for cloud services in the banking industry. The U.S. Treasury released a report titled The Financial Services Sector’s Adoption of Cloud Services identifying banks’ […]
Welcome to The Era of AI Vertigo
If you believe the press releases and CEO bluster, navigating the internet and accessing information will look completely different in a few mere months. AI enthusiasts will tell you that the sheer size of these […]
THTHNG: Desolation Unknown
Clocking in at just over 1 hour, “Desolation Unknown” is part of a 3-part horror anthology homage to one of the greatest horror films of all-time, and is also the first full length ‘film’ created […]
What Ails Google and How It Can Turn Things Around
Can Google achieve a “soft-landing” — i.e. gradually transform and become a powerhouse again while continuing to grow steadily? I joined Google just before the pandemic when the company I had co-founded, AppSheet, was acquired […]
Are Microsoft’s Hype Box and Google’s Bard Just as Bad as Each Other?
If Microsoft and Google can’t fix their models’ hallucinations, AI-powered search is not to be trusted no matter how alluring the technology appears to be. Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing search engine generated false information on […]
The Original Startup Behind Stable Diffusion Has Launched a Generative AI for Video
Runway, the AI startup that co-created Stable Diffusion, has released an AI model that can transform existing videos into new ones by applying styles specified by text prompt or reference image. In a demo reel […]
Brazil Moves to Oust Miners from Indigenous Lands, Shore Up Support for Amazon Protection
Brazil’s federal police have launched a new raid on illegal gold miners operating in Indigenous Yanomami territory in the northern Amazon, officials said on Friday. The invasion of miners has contributed to the spread of […]
The Rise of Tanker Shipping’s ‘Shadow Fleet’
Sanctions have split the world’s tanker fleet in two. On one side, those that follow Western rules; on the other, those that don’t. The European Union and G-7 nations, together with Australia and Japan, implemented […]
The Next Generation Of Large Language Models
What will the next generation of large language models (LLMs) look like? The answer to this question is already out there, under development at AI startups and research groups at this very moment. It is […]
The Tao of Alibaba
In “The Tao of Alibaba”, Brian A. Wong explores the philosophy behind the retail giant and its effects on China’s decades-long economic transformation. The visionary thinker R. Buckminster Fuller articulated a philosophical, almost spiritual faith […]
The Human Behind The Curtain
Behind the AI chatbots and delivery robots are human workers, hidden from sight, keeping everything running. Since ChatGPT took the world by storm last fall, people have been in a frenzy debating the impact artificial […]