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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.

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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

Mid-sized Organisations – Haven Power , Holiday Extras , ">Exeter Family Friendly , ">Royal Opera House , ">Total Jobs , Retail Companies – Shop Direct , Nisa Retail , Kurt Geiger , Sport Pursuit. Media and Entertainment – BBC , Channel 4 , ITV , News UK , The FT , Trinity Mirror , The Guardian.

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AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3

O'Reilly

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Using models like GPT-3, multiple entities could inundate social media platforms with misinformation at a scale where the majority of the information online would become useless.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

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Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

Smashing Magazine

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Alibaba is one of the e-commerce giants that have “run the gamut” from a regular online retail store to a native application (created for mobile shopping purposes) and then on to a PWA. Hence, this feature is also not a perk of only traditional apps.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup.