O'reilly - artificial intelligence
Protocols and Power
The AI Frontiers article (reproduced below) builds on a previous Asimov Addendum article written by Tim O’Reilly, entitled: “Disclosures. I do not think that word means what you think it means.” I (Ilan) think it’s important to first very briefly go...
Hanoi Turned Upside Down
Prompted in part by Apple’s paper about the limits of large language models (“The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity”), I spent some time playing with Towers of...
AI and Education
At the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco this June, cofounder Benjamin Dunphy announced the new AI Education Summit. He introduced the free online event, stating that he could imagine a future of human-computer interaction and the potential...
Generative AI in the Real World: Phillip Carter on...
Phillip Carter, formerly of Honeycomb, and Ben Lorica talk about observability and AI—what observability means, how generative AI causes problems for observability, and how generative AI can be used as a tool to help SREs analyze telemetry data. There’s...
From REST to Reasoning: A Journey Through AI-First...
We’ll start with a confession: Even after years of designing enterprise systems, AI architecture is still a moving target for us. The landscape shifts so fast that what feels cutting edge today might be table stakes tomorrow. But that’s...
How Human-Centered AI Actually Gets Built
The following is from the High Signal podcast. You can find the original audio version here. Fei-Fei Li talks with Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Duncan Gilchrist about AI as a civilizational technology: a technology that’s going to transform governments, geopolitics,...
The Next Leap for AI: Why Agents Need to Learn to ...
The agentic AI systems that dazzle us today with their ability to sense, understand, and reason are approaching a fundamental bottleneck—not one of computational power or data availability but something far more elusive: the ability to navigate the messy,...
Where Is AI on the Enshittification Curve?
After listening to Andy Jassy’s “lean into AI” comments to CNBC about using AI to deliver a better experience to customers, I came across Ford CEO Jim Farley’s comments at the Aspen Ideas Festival predicting massive job losses from...