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Fearing the Wrong Thing

O'Reilly on Data

There’s a lot of angst about software developers “losing their jobs” to AI, being replaced by a more intelligent version of ChatGPT, GitHub’s Copilot, Google’s Codey, or something similar. Matt Welsh has been talking and writing about the end of programming as such. But what does this mean in practice?

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AI Hallucinations: A Provocation

O'Reilly on Data

What it really can’t do is make something completely new and different, and that’s ultimately what drives the arts forward. We need someone (or something) who can do what Beethoven did: horrify the music industry by breaking music as we know it and putting it back together differently. We don’t need more Beethoven.

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Creativity Isn’t Just Remixing

O'Reilly on Data

Ethan Mollick (with whom I rarely disagree) writes, “In the real world, most new ideas do not come from the ether; they are based on combinations of existing concepts, which is why innovation scholars have long pointed to the importance of recombination in generating ideas.” The current wave of AI startups is no different.

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The Quality of Auto-Generated Code

O'Reilly on Data

” Imagine asking Copilot to write a function that sorts a list. But a unit test has no way of telling whether a function is implemented using quicksort, permutation sort , (which completes in factorial time), sleep sort , or one of the other strange sorting algorithms that Kevlin has been writing about. Do we care?

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3 areas where gen AI improves productivity — until its limits are exceeded

CIO Business Intelligence

Even though generative AI is a relatively new technology, it’s now difficult to imagine a world without it, given the impact it’s making, and the business value it can create. for every $1 spent. for every $1 spent. EY is one example of a company widely deploying gen AI. We did side-by-side testing,” he says.

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What LinkedIn learned leveraging LLMs for its billion users

CIO Business Intelligence

So the social media giant launched a generative AI journey and is now reporting the results of its experience leveraging Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. For LinkedIn, this was no different, as its road to LLM insights was anything but smooth, said LinkedIn’s Juan Bottaro, a principal software engineer and tech lead.

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Take Your SQL Skills To The Next Level With These Popular SQL Books

datapine

Now it’s time to ponder over our hand-picked list of the 20 best SQL learning books available today. Business leaders, developers, data heads, and tech enthusiasts – it’s time to make some room on your business intelligence bookshelf because once again, datapine has new books for you to add. SQL isn’t just for database administrators (DBAs).