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The Weekly: Technology and Art, a conflict in purpose
It has taken me longer to get this edition of The Weekly out. It’s partly because I have been organizing my thoughts around art and technology. I am starting to worry that tech is doing art dirty. I also suspect that technology’s impact on art, is a precursor to tech’s troubling impact on humanity at…
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The Weekly: Being Obviously Wrong
… also in this issue: life of legos and eggs, a brief crosspost, and a nagging question. Being obviously wrong, i.e., in a manner that is obvious and clear, can be a strength for automated systems. Because when a machine breaks — digital or mechanical — with a lot of sound and drama, it becomes…
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The Weekly: Language is not Math
… and more from this edition of the Weekly. Counting and numbers as concepts strike me as different from words and language. This became obvious to me when I saw my toddler learning how to speak and count. We may assign words and language to numbers, but the abstract ideas of counting and arithmetic do…
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Threads Dev Interview #20: A fun conversation about Software, AI and No-code
I recently took part in an edition of the Threads Dev Interviews. Ryan Swanstrom conducts these awesome interviews, nearly every day on Threads, where he connects with developers on Threads, and interviews them — on Threads! It is a remarkable format, and I have seen nothing like it. These interviews have become part of my…
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Threads Dev Interview #20: Are you aware of research work or new products being created for software testing with AI?
Are you aware of research work or new products being created for software testing with AI? [Threads] [Web Archive] Interestingly, Software Test Suite Generation is something that Software Engineering Research communities have been tackling for a while now! You have tools like Evosuite (evosuite.org) and Pex (microsoft.com/en-us…) that use tech like Genetic/Evolutionary algorithms or Symbolic…
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Threads Dev Interview #20: What is one area of tech currently interesting you? And Why?
What is one area of tech currently interesting you? And Why? Software Testing. (I know! Boring!) But it has me fired up a lot lately. I’m deeply interested in how GenAI can help with writing software tests. It has me fired up, because when writing tests, you are doing something interesting: you get to define…
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Threads Dev Interview #20: How much AI do you use in your current work? And for what?
How much AI do you use in your current work? And for what? [Threads] [Web Archive] I use it a fair amount for writing docs, creating presentations, generating meeting summaries (for meeting I did not attend), literature reviews (if I am working on research). I am yet to use it for writing code. Will be…
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Threads Dev Interview #20: What are the concerns of software written by AI?
We are entering an era in which AI can write code, what are the concerns of software written by AI? [Threads] [Wayback Archive] Great question! And I wanted to couch my answer in some basic outlook I have about coding: Coding is simultaneously an act of expressing and comprehending human needs. That is, we write…
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AI Poetry Slam: Chuck
Welcome to Poetry Slams on Winter Rant! Today’s LLMs [↪]: GPT 4 on chat.openai.com GPT 3.5 on chat.openai.com Google Bard Microsoft Bing on Edge Prompt: Write a poem with rhymes for the following title: "Chuck" GPT4 In a town where the laughter and cheers would abound, A jester named Chuck would oft be found, A…
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AI Poetry Slam: The Different Infinities
Welcome to Poetry Slams on Winter Rant! Today’s Large Language Models: GPT 4 on chat.openai.com GPT 3.5 on chat.openai.com Google Bard Microsoft Bing on Edge Prompt: Write a poem with rhymes for the following title: "The Different Infinities" Results: GPT4: In the vast expanse of the cosmos untold, Lies a secret that whispers, a story…
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