AI is everywhere—we’re in a middle of a technology shift that’s as big as (and possibly bigger than) the arrival of the web in the 1990s. Even though ChatGPT appeared almost two years ago, ...
A recent article in Computerworld argued that the output from generative AI systems, like GPT and Gemini, isn’t as good as it used to be. It isn’t the first time I’ve heard this complaint, ...
This month, we’ll give AI a rest. Alex Russell has finished an excellent series of posts titled “Reckoning.” It’s a must-read for web developers. If you want to understand why our network...
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/radar-trends-to-watch-september-2024/
Platform engineering is the latest buzzword in IT operations. And like all other buzzwords, it’s in danger of becoming meaningless—in danger of meaning whatever some company with a “platfor...
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/platform-engineering-the-next-step-in-operations/
Over the years, many of us have become accustomed to letting computers do our thinking for us. “That’s what the computer says” is a refrain in many bad customer service interactions. “Tha...
July was a big month for model releases: There are new large models from Mistral and Meta, smaller multilingual models from Mistral and DeepL, another Mistral model that specializes in code gener...
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/radar-trends-to-watch-august-2024/
Like almost any question about AI, “How does AI impact software architecture?” has two sides to it: how AI changes the practice of software architecture and how AI changes the things we archi...
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/software-architecture-in-an-ai-world/
The first AI image generation model I got to play around with was Midjourney v2 in summer 2022. A month earlier, OpenAI had launched DALL-E 2 in beta, and the results looked unbelievably magical....
It’s clear that generative AI is already being used by a majority—a large majority—of programmers. That’s good. Even if the productivity gains are smaller than many think, 15% to 20% is s...
Can anything that is programmable have an embedded LLM? Apparently so. llama.ttf is a plain old font that looks like Open Sans—you can download it and install it. We don’t know whether this i...
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/radar-trends-to-watch-july-2024/
As AI continues to advance at a rapid pace, developers are increasingly turning to AI-driven development (AIDD) to build more intelligent and adaptive applications. However, using natural languag...
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/unlocking-the-power-of-ai-driven-development-with-sudolang/
Last month, The New York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional...
AI is too often seen as an enterprise of, by, and for the wealthy. We’re going to take a look at a Digital Green’s Farmer.Chat, a generative AI bot that was designed to help small-scale farme...
Generative AI may be a groundbreaking new technology, but it’s also unleashed a torrent of complications that undermine its trustworthiness, many of which are the basis of lawsuits. Will conten...
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-new-oreilly-answers-the-r-in-rag-stands-for-royalties/
At O’Reilly, we’re not just building training materials about AI. We’re also using it to build new kinds of learning experiences. One of the ways we are putting AI to work is our update to ...
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/answers-generative-ai-as-learning-tool/