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The Slow Growing Problems

Both as a DBA and developer, I’ve had plenty of immediate, this-is-broken, fix-it-quickly issues. Usually, I, or someone else, wrote some bad code and somehow got it deployed. I mean, I do test things, and I would (probably) never change … Continue reading

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AI Experiments: Parsing Payment Memos

As part of my running the SQL Saturday charitable foundation, I get sponsorship money from vendors. Primarily Microsoft and AMD, but I hope to change that in the future. In any case, I recently got a payment notification that my … Continue reading

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Liability for AI Errors

This week there was an article that speculated that doctors in the UK could be liable for errors made by AI tools unless rules are changed. The argument is that AI tools should be treated as products, which isn’t necessarily … Continue reading

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Republish: The Degradation of the Turing Test

I’m on my way back from Frankfurt and PASS Europe. It’s been a long week, a quick Tue-Fri trip to the EU and my brain is a bit fried. Lots of chats and conversations, and more than a few time … Continue reading

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