PLATO: How an educational computer system from the ’60s shaped the future #VintageComputing @arstechnica
Bright graphics, a touchscreen, a speech synthesizer, messaging apps, games, and educational software—no, it’s not your kid’s iPad. This is the mid-1970s, and all this was on PLA…
There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is.
The concept of copyleft is
compelling in a lot of ways, at least for those who want to promote
software freedom in the world. Bradley Kuhn is certainly one of those
people and has long been working on various aspects of copyleft licensing
and compliance, along with software freedom. He came to Everything Open 2023 to talk
about copyleft, some of its history—and flaws—and to look toward the future
of copyleft.
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowe…
Unlock the Next Wave of Machine Learning with the Hybrid Cloud
Even when analysts and data scientists overcome the hurdle of getting access to data in other parts of the business, they quickly find that they lack effective tools and hardware to leverage the data. Domino Data Lab's Kjell Carlsson discusses how to achieve AI transformation with a hybrid-cloud machine learning strategy.
A US Agency Rejected Face Recognition—and Landed in Big Trouble
Officials working on Login.gov, used to access dozens of government sites, worried about algorithmic bias. Their decision breached federal security rules.
Bill Gates explains why AI is as revolutionary as personal computers, mobile phones, and the Internet, and he gives three principles for how to think about it.
This article is the first chapter of a concise field guide for running and supporting JVM applications, focusing on memory. The guide focuses on the most practical aspects of dealing with JVM applications, primarily server-side ones.
I don’t know if the human body can change as fast as the changes being brought on by meta-sizing of everything. As someone who loves the possibilities of technology, it is inevitable we will need c…
r/Futurology - I asked GPT-4 to compile a timeline on when which human tasks (not jobs) have been/will be replaced by AI or robots, plus one sentence reasoning each - it runs from 1959 to 2033. In a second post it lists which tasks it assumes will NOT be replaced by 2050, and why. (Remember it's cut-off 2021.)
AIOps cuts support ticket numbers but not support desk jobs, claims report – Blocks and Files
More than 60 percent of business and MSP help and support desk operations saw an incident ticket cut with artificial intelligence (AIOPs) help, claims a 57 page OpsRamp research report that seems to indicate that AIOps doesn’t kill support desk jobs. HPE is buying OpsRamp and so enabling GreenLake to have an ITOM presence. Using […]
“The computer wants you to click this button.” “It thinks you asked for something else.” “He’s mad at you.” Thousands of generations ago, we evolved our wa…