Software: Most software outsourcing to be replaced by AI?
AI-based code generation is poised to greatly increase software developer productivity to the point that there may soon be too many software developers.
Microsoft’s Quantum Computing
This could be huge, if it pans out: Microsoft claims to have achieved first milestone in creating a reliable and practical quantum computer (phys.org)
Automation: White collar jobs are at risk of big change if not outright elimination, due to AI and automation
“People used to say that the robots are going to destroy skilled labor. Well, not really. I haven’t seen any plumbing robots. I haven’t seen any electrician robots. And I…
AI: Rodney Brooks – the problems with AI
“What the large language models are good at is saying what an answer should sound like, which is different from what an answer should be.”—Rodney Brooks, Robust.AI Source: Just Calm…
Vint Cerf receives 2023 IEEE Medal of Honor
Vint Cerf is an awesome individual: For the past five decades, Cerf, now 79, has been perfecting, extending, and evangelizing the Internet. It is for this—his contributions in cocreating the…
Believable: “47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022 | Security Magazine”
A new report reveals that in 2022, 47.4% of all internet traffic came from bots, a 5.1% increase over the previous year. Source: 47% of all internet traffic came from…
AI: AI top topic at secret Bilderberg Group meetings
Artificial intelligence will be a key focus of the talks between members of the business and political elite in Lisbon, Portugal. Source: Bilderberg: OpenAI, Microsoft, Google join AI talks at…
AI: ChatGPT falsely accuses professor of sexual harassment
It all started when UCLA professor and fellow lawyer Eugene Volokh asked ChatGPT if sexual harassment was a problem in American law schools and to provide at least 5 examples…
AI: Are web scrapers now mostly AI data harvesters?
As I see this blog (and others) hammered by web scrapers and crawlers, it occurs to me these may be AI systems harvesting content for training.