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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE STARTS ON EDGE

The best engineering teams develop their own tools while running production code on edge, where progress is made. When programmers are able to directly influence the tools they're working with, they're likely to do so, which makes them learn more. However, this requires being able to immediately use the improvements or bug fixes they helped devise - it doesn't work if they have to sit and wait for the next release. Bug-free frameworks and libraries take work, but the reward is increased engineering excellence.

OPENAI BACKS AI-MADE ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Chad Nelson, a creative specialist at OpenAI, is making a feature-length movie using AI. Expected to be released in theaters globally next year, Critterz is a story about forest creatures who go on an adventure after their village is disrupted by a stranger. Nelson has teamed up with production companies in London and Los Angeles to debut the film at the Cannes Film Festival in May. The team is attempting to make the movie in about nine months instead of the three years it would typically take. It has a budget of less than $30 million, far less than what animated films typically cost.

NO, AI IS NOT A BUBBLE

Bubbles are false beliefs about reality that everyone eventually figures out were false. The dot-com bubble that popped was the idea that businesses would become instantly rich just by being on the internet. People no longer believe that just adding AI to products will make them instant millionaires. The idea that modern AI will significantly transform business and the global economy, leading to massive unemployment for knowledge workers, is not a bubble.

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