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Generally speaking, developing a system requires both frontend and backend. It is almost impossible for a single person to handle it all. There are many aspects and functions to consider, such as the need for a database to store data, a file storage for various files, such as image files, and the backend needs to …

Even though there is an official Slack ChatGPT bot in the works, there’s much more joy in DIY. Here’s a few words about how I spent a few hours building our own for our internal company Slack. My goal was to enhance our existing Slackbot “Loftbot” with ChatGPT like features. Instead of using the web …

I often share the same guidance with teams at both bld.ai and l2m.vc, so I thought it would be valuable to discuss it here as well. In AI product development, speed is crucial. It’s more important than cost and quality. We want all three, but speed comes first. Optimizing for cost hurts quality. Prioritizing quality …

Language Learning with Bing Chat, and the Impending Advent of OmniAssistant Software tl;dr: The new bingchat is an incredibly effective language learning tutor, and its capabilities imply that we are closer than we previously thought to major societal advances and upsets. — – In the past few days my request for access to the new …

In a recent article for The Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance compared Facebook to a Doomsday Machine: “a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life.” In the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, the filmmakers imagine a digital control room where engineers press buttons and turn dials to manipulate a teenage boy through his …

Sign up here for our daily coronavirus newsletter on what you need to know, and subscribe to our Covid-19 podcast for the latest news and analysis. China is willing to offer help to the U.S. in controlling the coronavirus, President Xi Jinping told his counterpart Donald Trump after weeks of rising tensions. The World Health …

MAINZ, Germany, March 5, 2020 — Air pollution is responsible for shortening people’s lives worldwide on a scale far greater than wars and other forms of violence and than parasitic and vector-borne diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and smoking, according to a study published March 3 in Cardiovascular Research. However, research by SPECTARIS, the Fraunhofer …