If you hang around with computerists long enough, they start talking about the Semantic Web. If you can represent human knowledge in a way that’s easy for computers to understand it will be transformative for information processing.

But computers, traditionally, haven’t been very good at parsing ambiguous human text.

… [That is now changing.] Do we need to write for computers any more? — Read More

It’s been a long time since IBM has actively touted Watson. Originally created to beat humans at the “Jeopardy!” game show, Watson marked IBM’s early splash in artificial intelligence, but it never amounted to a profitable offering.

About 15 months ago, IBM sold its Watson Health unit for an undisclosed amount to private equity firm Francisco Partners.

Now, Watson has given way to WatsonX, and IBM is trying to ride the latest boom in AI. IBM is billing it as a development studio for companies to “train, tune and deploy” machine-learning models.  Read More

Believe it or not, the Raspberry Pi came out 11 years ago. In that time, single board computers (SBCs) have gotten unbelievably powerful. During this same decade every major telecom provider started rolling out 5G services. Oh, and by the way, AlexNet, the neural network that completely changed they way we process imagery, landed on the computer vision scene in 2012.

This convolution (ha) of small, powerful computers, fast network access, and practical neural networks created the perfect conditions for edge computing to blossom. We live in the golden age of small, cheap computers capable of running software that didn’t and couldn’t have existed 10 years ago. It’s a great time to be alive! Read More

Google’s conversation AI tool Bard can now help software developers with programming, including generating code, debugging and code explanation — a new set of skills that were added in response to user demand.

Coding has been one of the top requests Google has received from users, according to a Friday blog post by Google Research product lead Paige Bailey.

Google said Friday it is launching these software development capabilities in more than 20 programming languages including C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Python and TypeScript. Users can export Python code to Google Colab. Bard can also help with writing functions for Google Sheets. Read More

Today, Amazon CodeWhisperer, a real-time AI coding companion, is generally available and also includes a CodeWhisperer Individual tier that’s free to use for all developers. Originally launched in preview last year, CodeWhisperer keeps developers in the zone and productive, helping them write code quickly and securely and without needing to break their flow by leaving their IDE to research something. Faced with creating code for complex and ever-changing environments, developers can improve their productivity and simplify their work by making use of CodeWhisperer inside their favorite IDEs, including Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ IDEA, and others. CodeWhisperer helps with creating code for routine or time-consuming, undifferentiated tasks, working with unfamiliar APIs or SDKs, making correct and effective use of AWS APIs, and other common coding scenarios such as reading and writing files, image processing, writing unit tests, and lots more.

Using just an email account, you can sign up and, in just a few minutes, become more productive writing code—and you don’t even need to be an AWS customer.  Read More

ChatGDB is a tool designed to superpower your debugging experience with GDB or LLDB, debuggers for compiled languages. Use it to accelerate your debugging workflow by leveraging the power of ChatGPT to assist you while using GDB/LLDB! GitHub Link

#devops

To get both alpaca and llama working on your computer, just run this:

$ npx dalai llama install 7B
$ npx dalai serve

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