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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Why is it now subject to the same kind of antitrust complaints faced by Microsoft, once the “evil empire” of the previous generation of computing? That difference in price (and its impact on pharmaceutical company profits) shows the extent of the rent. For example, consider drug pricing.

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Why Best-of-Breed is a Better Choice than All-in-One Platforms for Data Science

O'Reilly on Data

Do you engage many small startups, each focused on one part of the problem? We see trends shifting towards focused best-of-breed platforms. This article, which examines this shift in more depth, is an opinionated result of countless conversations with data scientists about their needs in modern data science workflows.

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AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3

O'Reilly on Data

I’d like to share my thoughts on GPT-3 in terms of risks and countermeasures, and discuss real examples of how I have interacted with the model to support my learning journey. Note that the dataset on which GPT-3 trained terminated around October 2019. Among other things. These models will continue to become more powerful.

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Copyright, AI, and Provenance

O'Reilly on Data

In an article in The New Yorker , Jaron Lanier introduces the idea of data dignity, which implicitly distinguishes between training a model and generating output using a model. This fallacy was probably encouraged by another New Yorker article arguing that an LLM is like a compressed version of the web. How do we make sense of this?

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When the Voice of the Customer Actually Talks

Rocket-Powered Data Science

In recent years, even government agencies have increased their attention on Citizen Experience (CX) and Voice of the Citizen (VoC), to inform and guide their citizen services. CX has become increasingly data-informed and data-driven, with VoC data being one of the key data sources.

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I Actually Chatted with ChatGPT

O'Reilly on Data

ChatGPT was released just over a year ago (at the end of November 2022), and countless people have already written about their experiences using it in all sorts of settings. (I I even contributed my own hot take last year with my O’Reilly Radar article Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT.) What more is left to say by now?

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A history of tech adaptation for today’s changing business needs

CIO Business Intelligence

The best weapon to make decisions in a dynamic world is accurate and relevant information so organizations can carry out strategic plans in the most reliable way. But to get to this point, the organization has had to rely on technology for decades as a strategic tool.