Comments on: Four short links: 10 October 2013

By Rufus Rock, UCL; Tim O’Reilly, UCL; Ilan Strauss, UCL; and Mariana Mazzucato, UCL Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesse...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/to-understand-the-risks-posed-by-ai-follow-the-money/

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made ...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/rising-tide-rents-and-robber-baron-rents/

We’ve been very lucky. A couple of weeks ago, a supply-chain attack against the Linux xz Utils package, which includes the liblzma compression library, was discovered just weeks before the comp...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/attacking-supply-chains-at-the-source/

A recent article in Fast Company makes the claim “Thanks to AI, the Coder is no longer King. All Hail the QA Engineer.” It’s worth reading, and its argument is probably correct. Generative ...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/quality-assurance-errors-and-ai/

“The economic problem of society…is a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality.” —Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society” Sil...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/ai-has-an-uber-problem/

There are lots of new models, including one from Apple, but that’s hardly news. AI news is infiltrating other sections of Trends (particularly Programming and Security)—but that’s also hard...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/radar-trends-to-watch-april-2024/

TL;DR LLMs and other GenAI models can reproduce significant chunks of training data. Specific prompts seem to “unlock” training data. We have many current and future copyright challenges: tra...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/chatgpt-author-of-the-quixote/

I’ve had a ham radio license since the late 1960s and observed the transition from vacuum tubes (remember them?) to transistors firsthand. Because we’re allowed to operate high-power transmit...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/vacuum-tubes-and-transistors/

January was a dull month, at least in my opinion. Maybe everyone was recovering from their holidays. February was a short month, but it was far from dull. And I’m not even counting the first sh...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/radar-trends-to-watch-march-2024/

In “SQL: The Universal Solvent for REST APIs” we saw how Steampipe’s suite of open source plug-ins that translate REST API calls directly into SQL tables. These plug-ins were, until recen...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/universal-api-access-from-postgres-and-sqlite/

Since its release in November 2022, almost everyone involved with technology has experimented with ChatGPT: students, faculty, and professionals in almost every discipline. Almost every company h...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/corporate-responsibility-in-the-age-of-ai/

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 lawsuit ...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-openai-endgame/

2024 started with yet more AI: a small language model from Microsoft, a new (but unnamed) model from Meta that competes with GPT-4, and a text-to-video model from Google that claims to be more re...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/radar-trends-to-watch-february-2024/

This has been a strange year. While we like to talk about how fast technology moves, internet time, and all that, in reality the last major new idea in software architecture was microservices, wh...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/technology-trends-for-2024/

ChatGPT was released just over a year ago (at the end of November 2022), and countless people have already written about their experiences using it in all sorts of settings. (I even contributed m...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/i-actually-chatted-with-chatgpt/