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Saturday, September 21, 2024

Predicting Technology's Future

It’s the Year 2030. What Will Artificial Intelligence Look Like?
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/future-of-ai-2030-experts-654fcbfe
We asked a range of experts to predict whether, in five years, AI will have lived up to the current hype. Be warned: They don’t all agree.

Will A.I. Be a Bust? A Wall Street Skeptic Rings the Alarm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/technology/ai-jim-covello-goldman-sachs.html
Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs’s head of stock research, warned that building too much of what the world doesn’t need “typically ends badly.”
 
Is Math the Path to Chatbots That Don’t Make Stuff Up?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/technology/ai-chatbots-chatgpt-math.html
Chatbots like ChatGPT get stuff wrong. But researchers are building new A.I. systems that can verify their own math — and maybe more.
 
The breakthrough AI needs 
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/09/19/the-breakthrough-ai-needs
A race is on to push artificial intelligence beyond today’s limits
 
AI has propelled chip architecture towards a tighter bond with software
https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2024/09/16/ai-has-propelled-chip-architecture-towards-a-tighter-bond-with-software
It has also been pushed farther towards specialization

 
The end of Moore’s law will not slow the pace of change
https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2024/09/16/the-end-of-moores-law-will-not-slow-the-pace-of-change
Semiconductors are likely to continue their transformational role.

Tech Jobs Have Dried Up—and Aren’t Coming Back Soon
https://www.wsj.com/tech/tech-jobs-artificial-intelligence-cce22393
Employment for software engineers has cooled as resources shift toward developing artificial intelligence