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Analogue Evolution, Digital Revolution: Tipping Points in Technology • Dylan Beattie • YOW! 2023

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Funny. speech Dylan Beattie on turning points in technology. This was mostly about

  • Intro The author recounts a guidebook he bought on Amazon that was written by ChatGPT:)
  • Tipping points - a story about the concentration of turning points, one of which we are in, according to the author. (To survive it successfully, you can look at the previous tipping points.)
  • Film vs digital cameras The story of Kodak, who was a leader in analog photography, but then came digital.
  • Music industry A story about the emergence of the iPod and a new model of music distribution compared to buying vinyl discs, cassettes, CDs and buying music albums
  • GenAI About generative AI on the example of DALL-E 3 and image generation
  • Books We used to believe what was written in books, but now it’s easy to get a book written by generative intelligence.
  • Stack Overflow - and this Q&A database goes towards teaching the model and then creating an assistant to help solve typical problems directly in the IDE
  • Will AI replace software engineers? An interesting question, the answer to which is that GenAI is still able to write code, and the software engineer knows how to work with requirements, design a reliable and productive solution. (And while there is scope of work for good engineers)
  • DALL-E The banter over the fact that when generating images, GenAI does not inflate the meaning of the query and the meaning of the answer:)
  • ChatGPT - banter over the fact that ChatGPT does not understand the meaning of the request and response on the example of creating an annagram on request
  • Alice & Bob - a thought experiment with training an assistant on the basis of an LLM and then transferring to him the authority to take care of himself
  • Solid project The author talks about Solid. (Social Linked Data)The project to create a decentralized world wide web inspired by Tim Berners-Lee, the author of the original concept of WWW, developed jointly with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (MIT).
  • Conclusion - a story about stickers and a request to generate a sticker for Metadata ala sticker Metallica (spoiler: DALL-E 3 I couldn’t write the word metadata.)Ones N' Zeros in the Guns N' Roses style, where DALL-E 3 again failed, but was able to help with part of the manual generation

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