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ML and the Stack Overflow 2022 Dev Survey

Here’s the survey if you want to explore it for yourself. First off, explore the sample size used. It’s over 73K developers. Then, understanding that there are about 27M developers world wide, when running a statistical size calculator, like this one, you’ll see that for a survey to be 99% accurate, with a margin of error of only 1%, you need ...

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Space Cadets - An AI-illustrated Novel. Chapter Three.

Continuing my experiment to illustrate a novel using AI text-to-image generation techniques. In this article, I’m going to use MidJourney. Previous chapters used DALL-E. Let me know what you think twitter.com/lmoroney CHAPTER 3 Launch We should always reach for the sky. From the very beginning of history, our ancestors were looking up and...

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Space Cadets - An AI-illustrated Novel. Part One.

In 2015, I wrote a novel called Space Cadets which was beloved by its (very few) readers, but shortly after publication, the publisher went bust. As such I’ve been sitting on the novel for years, and instead of leaving it to gather digital dust, I’m using it for an experiment. An online, illustrated, novel, with all of the illustrations using A...

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The Famous $19 Apple Cleaning Cloth

So I took the plunge and bought one of the famous $19 Cleaning Cloths from Apple. This much maligned and lampooned cloth is actually quite nice. Let’s take a look. It arrives in letterbox packaging like this. Apple makes great products, and they fully understand that the packaging is part of the experience. If you’ve ever spent time in Asia...

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Not technical, but want to learn about AI? Now it's easy!

I’m excited to announce the launch of my latest Massively Open Online Course (or MOOC) called Google AI for Anyone, created with the lovely folks from HarvardX and EdX. The goal of this course, as its name suggests, is to be a broad introduction of what AI is (and perhaps more importantly, what it isn’t) designed for everybody to enjoy! No en...

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Not technical, but want to learn about AI? Now it's easy!

I’m excited to announce the launch of my latest Massively Open Online Course (or MOOC) called Google AI for Anyone, created with the lovely folks from HarvardX and EdX. The goal of this course, as its name suggests, is to be a broad introduction of what AI is (and perhaps more importantly, what it isn’t) designed for everybody to enjoy! No en...

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Making Stargate AI - Part One - The Approach

Recently, I’ve been working on a very exciting project – instigated by an idea from Brad Wright, creator of the ‘Stargate’ TV shows. Given how many attempts there have been for Machine Learning models to consume scripts and to attempt to come up with stories of their own, why couldn’t we do something similar for Stargate – where there are over 3...

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Global Skills Reports - Jobs of Tomorrow

Coursera’s Global Industry Skills Report of 2021 has been released, and it contains some excellent insights into the skills of tomorrow. You can download it for yourself here. It’s been clear for some time that a digital transformation is underway, and that the skills to succeed in tomorrow’s will be vastly different than those of today. I’ve...

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