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CFEngine is 30 years old this year. For a piece of software, that’s been quite a long life. A lot has happened on its journey to arrive at where we are today, but most users have now forgotten how it emerged from a young lad’s dreams of artificial intelligence. I’ve written at length about the science in my book In ...

Communications of the ACM has a new article titled “The End of Programming” by Matt Welsh. It posits that traditional programs “will be replaced by AI systems that are trained rather than programmed” (emphasis in the original). Welsh is “the CEO and co-founder of Fixie.ai, a recently founded startup developing AI ca...

Previous major advancements in Computer Science and its applications always felt empowering to me, AI feels different.Dall-E 3, “A drawing of a software engineer overwhelmed by recent advances in Artificial Intelligence”To find out why I feel this way, I had to look into the past couple of decades and compare the ma...

Last year, OpenAI’s ChatGPT introduced gpt-4-vision-preview, a model that allows you to ask questions about an image you upload. For example, you can ask it to describe a scene, a room, or even the contents of your refrigerator. I’ve considered using it as an interior designer, but I digress.Today, we’re going to us...

Don’t worry, he’s not madLarge Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI have completely dominated the AI and machine learning space in 2023. The results have been amazing and the public imagination is almost endless. That’s not to mention the progress made in generating creative works — the image above is generated ...