LLM Proliferation Will Challenge Emerging Testing Market Cover image from Meta's llama 3 via a prompt by the author. The advent of smaller, more efficient LLMs will result in an even more rampant LLM proliferation as they become available to run on smaller and smaller devices. At the same time, problems with models, from safety to misinformation and bias, have created a … [Read more...] about LLM Proliferation Will Challenge Emerging Testing Market
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2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report: The Worrisome Microsoft and LinkedIn Report
2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report: The Worrisome Microsoft and LinkedIn Report All images via Dalle-2 and Microsoft Copilot. Some images may have been edited after their creation. The 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report from Microsoft and LinkedIn delivers some worrisome insights about the future of work. Most notably, it shines a bright light on the power of automation … [Read more...] about 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report: The Worrisome Microsoft and LinkedIn Report
Listening to the Future: Revisiting “The Thinking Factory”
Listening to the Future: Revisiting "The Thinking Factory" Cover image via DALLE-2 from Microsoft Copilot on Edge. I was sitting in a ballroom of the famed Queen Mary ocean liner, docked and aging in Long Beach, California. A filtered light streamed through the curtained windows behind me. At the front of the room was a large square screen. Round tables with sumptuous … [Read more...] about Listening to the Future: Revisiting “The Thinking Factory”
Thinking Out Loud: What Should an AI PC Do?
What Should an AI PC Do? Previous versions of PC-based AI did live up to their promise. Cortana was too primitive. Like Apple's Siri, it performed only rudimentary tasks. Microsoft deprecated Cortana as a Windows 11 feature. It now exists only as a download from the Microsoft store. I will return to Siri later, as it is likely the Apple interface to AI. AI will likely … [Read more...] about Thinking Out Loud: What Should an AI PC Do?
AI Hallucinations, Bias and Lies: Why We Need to Stop Ascribing Human Behavior and Attributes to AI
AI Hallucinations, Bias and Lies: Why We Need to Stop Ascribing Human Behavior and Attributes to AI [All images generated with Dall-E 3 via Microsoft's Copilot in Microsoft Edge on a Macintosh.] The new era of AI has made a mistake. Makers, users, marketers, critics, and academics have ascribed human attributes to AI, overloading understood terms. When we overload terms, … [Read more...] about AI Hallucinations, Bias and Lies: Why We Need to Stop Ascribing Human Behavior and Attributes to AI
