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6 articles
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AI Is Not the Solution. It's the Tool.
The argument against AI is the argument I heard against Google in 1998, with the nouns swapped. It was a bet against literacy then, and it lost. The tool is neutral; the judgment has to stay yours.
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2025 State of Tech Talent Report
The Linux Foundation surveyed more than 500 hiring and training leaders. They expect AI to add value, they're short of people who can build it, and most would rather train their own staff than hire. The key numbers and…
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Open Source vs. Proprietary AI Models
Yesterday Meta released Llama 3.1 405B and called it open source. It's a remarkable model, and it isn't open source by any definition the term used to have. What "open" means for AI models, how open-weight models…
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The Sci-Fi Vision for AI
Science fiction has been writing about thinking machines for a century, and in 2024 the stories and the headlines have started to overlap. Where the fiction came from, what the real history looks like next to it, which…
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The Impact of William Gibson’s “Neuromancer” on Computer Science and the Internet
Neuromancer turned forty this month. It was written on a manual typewriter by a man who'd barely used a computer, and it gave the internet its vocabulary and its mood. What it got right, what it got hilariously wrong…
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Leveraging AI Tools to Increase Efficiency: Pros and Cons
AI assistants are genuinely useful for technical work and genuinely dangerous when trusted blindly. Where they save time for engineers and sysadmins, where they've already embarrassed people who believed them, and the…