O’Reilly Data Show Podcast – O'Reilly Radar

Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. Almost everybody’s played with ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, GitHub Copilot, or Midjourney. A few have even tried out Bard or Claude, o...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/generative-ai-in-the-enterprise/

This is not the first time that I’ve written about AI creativity, and I doubt that it will be the last. It’s a question that comes up repeatedly, and that is very much in the current mind, wi...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/creativity-isnt-just-remixing/

Our Security section has grown almost as large as AI (and longer than Programming)—and that’s not including some security issues specific to AI, like model leeching. Does that mean that AI is...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/radar-trends-to-watch-november-2023/

This time of year, everyone publishes predictions. They’re fun, but I don’t find them a good source of insight into what’s happening in technology. Instead of predictions, I’d prefer to l...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/questions-for-2024/

Disclaimer: Based on the announcement of the EO, without having seen the full text. Overall, the Executive Order is a great piece of work, displaying a great deal of both expertise and thoughtful...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/preliminary-thoughts-on-the-white-house-executive-order-on-ai/

Ever since the current craze for AI-generated everything took hold, I’ve wondered: what will happen when the world is so full of AI-generated stuff (text, software, pictures, music) that our tr...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/model-collapse-an-experiment/

Anant Agarwal, an MIT professor and of the founders of the EdX educational platform, recently created a stir by saying that prompt engineering was the most important skill you could learn. And th...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/prompting-isnt-the-most-important-skill/

Ethan and Lilach Mollick’s paper Assigning AI: Seven Approaches for Students with Prompts explores seven ways to use AI in teaching. (While this paper is eminently readable, there is a non-acad...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/automated-mentoring-with-chatgpt/

AI continues to spread. This month, the AI category is limited to developments about AI itself; tools for AI programming are covered in the Programming section. One of the biggest issues for AI t...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/radar-trends-to-watch-october-2023/

I am wired to constantly ask “what’s next?” Sometimes, the answer is: “more of the same.” That came to mind when a friend raised a point about emerging technology’s fractal nature. A...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/structural-evolutions-in-data/

A few weeks ago, I saw a tweet that said “Writing code isn’t the problem. Controlling complexity is.” I wish I could remember who said that; I will be quoting it a lot in the future. That s...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-real-problem-with-software-development/

While the AI group is still the largest, it’s notable that Programming, Web, and Security are all larger than they’ve been in recent months. One reason is certainly that we’re pushing AI ne...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/radar-trends-to-watch-september-2023/

To follow up on our previous survey about low-code and no-code tools, we decided to run another short survey about tools specifically for software developers—including, but not limited to, GitH...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-next-generation-of-developer-productivity/

I’m sure that nobody will be surprised that the number of searches for ChatGPT on the O’Reilly learning platform skyrocketed after its release in November, 2022. It might be a surprise how qu...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-chatgpt-surge/

Artificial Intelligence continues to dominate the news. In the past month, we’ve seen a number of major updates to language models: Claude 2, with its 100,000 token context limit; LLaMA 2, with...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/radar-trends-to-watch-august-2023/