OpenAI recently shared a five-level system for tracking its artificial general intelligence progress. The levels go from what is currently available to AI that can perform the same amount of work as an organization. They may change based on feedback from employees, investors, and the company's board. OpenAI executives believe the company's AI is currently on the first level, but it is getting close to level two, where AI can perform basic problem-solving.
Google may be acquiring cybersecurity firm Wiz for $23 billion. Wiz, founded in 2020, had been eyeing an IPO as recently as May, when it achieved a valuation of $12 billion. Its security offering gives companies insight into their full cloud presence. If completed, the deal will be Google's largest acquisition yet.
SpaceX rocket accident leaves the company's Starlink satellites in the wrong orbit (2 minute read)
A SpaceX rocket has failed for the first time in nearly a decade. The upper stage engine of the Falcon 9 rocket malfunctioned several minutes into flight. It left 20 Starlink satellites in an orbit less than half of what was intended. The company is attempting to boost some of the satellites to a higher orbit using onboard ion thrusters, but it is unlikely to be successful. The satellites will likely return to the atmosphere and burn up. The Federal Aviation Administration says the problem must be fixed before SpaceX can fly its Falcon rockets again.
property: Next-gen CSS variables now with universal browser support (4 minute read)
@property extends the CSS language by providing meaning and context to CSV variables. It can be used to define a type for custom properties, preventing unexpected results and supporting new possibilities like animating gradients. The enhanced type safety opens up new opportunities for testing and validation directly within CSS.
Can ChatGPT do data science? (5 minute read)
The challenges of using ChatGPT are worse for data science tasks. Data scientists often work with very large data sets that have quality issues on tasks that may require domain expertise. Using ChatGPT will mean that data scientists also have to understand the context, data, code, and assumptions in ChatGPT's responses. Data scientists are still undecided whether tasks in the field are suitable for ChatGPT or not.
AT&T Says Hacker Stole Cell, Text Data on Nearly All Its Wireless Customers (4 minute read)
The records included details about how different phone numbers interacted with each other but no contents of the calls or messages.
Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again (5 minute read)
AWS' obsession with Generative AI is causing it to neglect everything that made it the leading cloud provider in almost every metric.
X is building a ‘dislike' button for downvoting replies (3 minute read)
X is only considering allowing downvotes on replies to help showcase better replies while moving less-liked replies further down the thread.
Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever (39 minute read)
The human immune system is very good at attacking anything it registers as a disease - if it could be turned against cancer, it could eliminate tumors more thoroughly than surgery and more durably than chemotherapy. Scientists have managed to modify T cells to react to cancer as if it were a virus and destroy it. The therapy has been used to remove glioblastomas, a common type of brain cancer with a median time of diagnosis to death of just over a year.
Why, after 6 years, I'm over GraphQL (15 minute read)
This article looks at why developers should avoid Graph QL and presents alternatives to use instead.
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott thinks LLM “scaling laws” will hold despite criticism (3 minute read)
Critics in the AI community say that progress in large language models has plateaued and the development may be approaching diminishing returns.
How close is AI to replacing product managers? (38 minute read)
Most people underestimate how close AI tools are to replacing the work of a human because they aren't using the latest models or making use of prompt engineering.