This week New York Times columnist Ezra Klein joined the ranks of those who are seriously freaked out about artificial intelligence. And he did this in a column posted two days before OpenAI announced the release of its latest AI, GPT-4—an event that led to such headlines as “5 Incredible, Frightening Things GPT-4 Can Do.”The…
In 1988, Silicon Graphics made a series of workstation computers that were based upon two pieces of technology: the MIPS CPU and the IRIS graphics system. The latter included both a hardware 3D graphics accelerator and the IRIS GL API. IRIS GL would later become OpenGL. These machines all ran IRIX (a derivative of System…
Compared with the attention heaped on Bob Iger’s return to the helm of Disney and the stepping back of Reed Hastings at Netflix, news on February 16th that Susan Wojcicki would resign from YouTube after nine years as ceo caused barely a rustle in the media pages. That is a sign of two things. First,…
