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APRIL 4, 2024

And of course, today IPOs are delayed, often precisely because companies can get all the capital they need from a small number of deep-pocketed investors. Google raised only $36 million in venture capital on its way to dominance. The capital-fueled AI land grab is of course only one axis of premature market concentration.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

What should copyright law mean in the age of artificial intelligence? Is it possible to distinguish between creative output (“Write in the style of Jesmyn Ward”) and actionable output (“Write a program that converts between current prices of currencies and altcoins”)? But Google has the best search engine in the world.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It’s not just memorizing the syntactic details of some programming language, or the many functions in some API, but understanding and managing the complexity of the problem you’re trying to solve. Anyone who works in programming has seen the source code for some project evolve from something short, sweet, and clean to a seething mass of bits.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And everyone has opinions about how these language models and art generation programs are going to change the nature of work, usher in the singularity, or perhaps even doom the human race. AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. Many AI adopters are still in the early stages.

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MARCH 23, 2023

LaMDA Developed by Google; few people have access to it, though its capabilities appear to be very similar to ChatGPT. Notorious for having led one Google employee to believe that it was sentient. PaLM Also developed by Google. Google has announced an API for PaLM, but at this point, there is only a waiting list.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s the single most popular programming language on O’Reilly, and it accounts for 10% of all usage. This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. In programming, Python is preeminent. Figure 3 (above).

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