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These are some of my thoughs (maybe a quick review?) after reading Patrick Dixon’s book on AI. His book is a great introduction to the topic for people who are still not familiar with what artificial intelligence is, and it shows a wide range of real world applications of AI as well as the author’s predictions for the future. Patrick Dixon is a futurist and has been writing about the future of the world for many years. Since I am a programmer and particularly interested in LLMs and generative AI, I figured his book would be a good read. ...

This is a summary I have written for a college exam and thought it would be cool to share it here. Language Levels High Level High-level languages are designed to provide programmers with a convenient development environment and control abstractions that make it easier to create programs. They have several advantages, such as: Benefits: Ease of Reading and Learning: The syntax of high-level languages is designed to resemble human language, making the code more readable and accessible to beginners and experienced programmers. Productivity: These languages offer high-level constructs, such as control structures and predefined functions, that allow programmers to write code faster. Portability: Generally, code written in a high-level language can be easily ported to different platforms as most of the hardware complexity is abstracted. Simplified Maintenance: The readability and organized structure of high-level code makes maintenance and error identification easier. Global Optimizations: High-level language compilers and interpreters can perform global optimizations, improving the efficiency of the generated code. Disadvantages: ...

I want to get a remote job after I graduate, so that I can leave this shitty city where I live and move to the countryside or to another country. This place is too violent, loud, dirty and you almost have no peace at all living here. Every night feels like you are going to get your phone stolen or get killed by some criminal. Everything is expensive and everyone is trying to take advantages in detriment of other people. I like cyberpunk cities, but not in real life. ...

Ok, you probably already know about chatGPT at this point. That language model is great and I use it every day to help me do my stuff and learn to program, but, as someone who likes cyberpunk culture, it makes me wonder how the future is going to look like if this kind of technology evolves even more and gets popular amongst other people. Just a few years ago, most people did not have smartphones and now, they are an integral part of our lives. In a similar way, we are currently in a transition period where LLMs are becoming accessible. ...

Just another kid with internet access… For the most part of my life, I haven’t cared a lot about my online privacy, specially when I used to be a kid. I can still remember creating several online accounts and proudly filling all of them with my real private information. I didn’t care about what I was putting there, and I had no idea of what they were doing with all that. A kid like me would never imagine that those cool apps downloaded on my phone were in reality collecting all of my data and selling it to third parties to generate a profile of me and track my activity. ...