Archive for the ‘Editorial’ Category:
The OpenAI Story of Bob.
The prompt:
Write me a short and inspiring story about Bob in I.T. who lost his job to a new form of Artificial Intelligence. Everything he used to do is now automated by an advanced form of AI. Tell the story of how Bob overcame getting fired from his job and became more successful than ever with a detailed explanation of his 5-step success plan.
Bob had been working in the IT industry for over a decade, and he had always prided himself on his technical skills and ability to solve complex problems. However, one day, everything changed.
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Something Old
Something curious happened during Microsoft’s PDC in 2003 (See ‘geeks bearing gifts‘). They unveiled the then-exciting and anticipated Longhorn operating system that was powered in large part by the GPU. That is, each “window” of Windows would no longer be rendered in software. They would be rendered as full 3D planes using the GPU.
Computing is Getting Worse
The state of user interfaces has reached the point of diminishing returns. In retrospect, it is clear that many user interfaces reached their peak balance of ease and complexity in 2007. Since then, it seems that balancing new features has been a very difficult task for many companies. There’s a curious trend to hide functionality to an obsessive degree that inhibits average users from being able to find often rather obviously necessary features. The learning curve continues to grow tremendously despite the superficial trend towards “simplicity.”
Wow, Windows 8 is Really Awkward (Review)
I’m not one to be easily confused by UI decisions. Comfortable with the command-line, and having used dozens upon dozens of different distributions of Linux, and nearly every version of Windows since 3.11 for Workgroups (and MS-DOS before that, v. 6.22) — I can’t say I’ve ever seen anything like Windows 8.
Granted, that’s how Microsoft wants it to be perceived. Perhaps they’ve succeeded in that cursory endeavor.