'Companies that have taste do not conduct design via surveys.' https://
daringfireball.net/2023/07/aptos
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Companies with taste reject survey-driven design approaches
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Big Tech and Open Source: Beyond Savior Narrative
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Now now. You and I both know it's more nuanced than that (they're neither savior nor pariah anymore, but def not tie saviors some suggest). I do wish they hadn't sullied shared source
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Shared Source Terminology: Microsoft Legacy and Perception
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Don't use my words against me! (I do think "shared source" is fine. The downside to it is that its origin (under a less loved Microsoft) gave it a pejorative connotation. The denotation is fine. The connotation is soured. But maybe could be improved?
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Google Leader Advocates for Artificial Intelligence Regulation
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Google head calls for AI regs
#AI #AIio #BigData #ML #NLU #Futureofwork @ahier @guzmand
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Google PaLM2: Exploring the Advanced Large Language Model
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Curious about PaLM2? https://
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Amazon Bedrock General Availability Coming Soon with Enterprise Controls
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'Amazon Bedrock will become available generally to any customer very "soon," Sivasubramanian said. He declined to state when, adding the company aims to address issues around cost allocation and enterprise controls first.' https://
reuters.com/technology/ama
zon-has-drawn-thousands-try-its-ai-service-competing-with-microsoft-google-2023-07-26/
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Google Announces Bard AI Partnership Updates
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GitHub Copilot adoption surges: 27K organizations, 90% self-service
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Of all the impressive things in Microsoft's earnings call, GitHub Copilot stats stand out:
— Matt Asay (@mjasay) 26 juillet 2023
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– 27,000+ organizations are using GitHub Copilot for business, up 2x QoQ. pic.twitter.com/VP2uhetx7YOf all the impressive things in Microsoft's earnings call, GitHub Copilot stats stand out: – Roughly 90% of GitHub Copilot sign-ups are self-service (fast-growing installed base, leading to…)
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Amazon AWS generative AI healthcare tool Microsoft Nuance acquisition
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would Amazon have done this if Microsoft hadn't bought Nuance? https://
cnbc.com/2023/07/26/aws
-announces-generative-ai-tool-to-save-doctors-time-on-paperwork.html
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BritGPT Dead: Governments Build AI While Tech Regulates
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I think the BritGPT idea is dead now … but am marvelling at the world were governments want to build AI and "big tech" wants to regulate it. Sometimes I wonder if the LHC really did create a black hole and we all fell through it to a parallel Universe.