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There is a notorious rush to build data centers tailored to either training or inference for LLM, hoping that the mere scaling will build AGI. Assumong that the bubble pops,and those data center suddenly become less…

I know that it's tongue in cheek to ask when AI is going to "cure cancer and solve climate change", but, is there a company / university / lab working on using AI (or mRNA, or CRIPSR, or whatever) to solve the more…

As programmers, we're used to systems that expect precision and don't like ambiguity. As human beings, we've had centuries to build lots of ambiguities :) For example: * anything related to timezones / dates ("Oh you…

I know we all fancy ourselves as expert in AI, autonomous systems, software architects, etc... but let's face the hard truth: for our non-geeky friends, families and foes, we are best-known as "computer…

A shirt is made somewhere in an given factory. The shirt was made from raw materials, energy, labor. Maybe, some part of the labor was marketing - a couple people worked on an ad in the local news, a model was paid to…

It's a cliche that news is biased toward "bad news", and that you need to look at the bigger pictures to see improvements. ("Factfullness" is written on this premise.) However, those days, it's hard to find of a topic…

The question is a bit tongue in cheek, but there is a point hidden. By definition, the Turing Award is meant for long lasting contribution ; meaning the recipients get their prize a long time after their work has been…

Meta: I keep seeing headlines like "Mino Games is hiring developers in Montreal". Am I the only one ? (I always assumed the frontpage was not personalized, is that the case?) If it's the same for everybody... why ? Is…