Maximizing paper clips
We won’t get the chance to worry about artificial general intelligence if we don’t deal with the problems we have in the present.
Commentary
Independent perspectives on the state of business and technology.
Making Facebook a scapegoat is a mistake
Breaking up Facebook won't solve the disinformation or privacy problems. It might well make it harder for Facebook to work on those problems.
Toward the next generation of programming tools
Programmers have built great tools for others. It’s time they built some for themselves.
The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy
Our entire economy seems to have forgotten that workers are also consumers, and suppliers are also customers.
The evolution and expanding utility of Ray
There are growing numbers of users and contributors to the framework, as well as libraries for reinforcement learning, AutoML, and data science.
Reinforcement learning for the birds
Much like human speech, bird song learning is social; perhaps we'll discover machine learning is social, too.
Rethinking informed consent
Consent is the first step toward the ethical use of data, but it's not the last.
7 web dev trends on our radar
Experts weigh in on GraphQL, machine learning, React, micro-frontends, and other trends that will shape web development.
9 trends to watch in systems engineering and operations
From artificial intelligence to serverless to Kubernetes, here’s what's on our radar.
What lies ahead for Python, Java, Go, C#, Kotlin, and Rust
O’Reilly authors and instructors explore the near-term future of popular and growing programming languages.
9 AI trends on our radar
How new developments in automation, machine deception, hardware, and more will shape AI.
Gradually, then suddenly
Technological change often happens gradually, then suddenly. Tim O'Reilly explores the areas poised for sudden shifts.
7 data trends on our radar
From infrastructure to tools to training, Ben Lorica looks at what’s ahead for data.
What we learn from AI’s biases
Our bad AI could be the best tool we have for understanding how to be better people.
The future of work goes beyond the predictions of the World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum’s 2018 jobs report limits research to a narrow range of the workforce.
Shaping the stories that rule our economy
The economy we want to build must recognize increasing the value to and for humans as the goal.
A quick reminder on HTTPS everywhere
HTTPS "everywhere" means everywhere—not just the login page, or the page where you accept donations. Everything.
Why we need to think differently about AI
General intelligence or creativity can only be properly imagined if we peel away the layers of abstractions.