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Worth Reading:

A wise reassessment of Artificial Intelligence from Vu Le of Nonprofit AF.


"Today, we are confronted with the mother of all inappropriate technologies, in the form of AI"

Daron Acemoğlu and Simon Johnson, winners of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, 2024

Acemoğlu and Johnson are referring primarily to the artificial intelligence products based on Large Language Models.

I agree with them, because:

Acemoğlu and Johnson continue:

"Imposing massive surveillance and data collection is not the only path of technological advance, and limiting it does not
mean banning technology. What we are experiencing instead is an antidemocratic trajectory charted by the profit motive
and the AI illusion, which involves authoritarian governments and tech companies foisting their vision on everybody else."



A song for our times... for what it's worth

Some Recent Highlights:

My latest talk: "Database Design Should Be Agile" at the British Computer Society, 20-Aug-2025.

Free Data Quality Monitor and Data Profiler download. This is the latest release of tools that we have developed and used in some large and small organisations over a number of years. Now there are better instructions for how to install, configure and use them. See Data Quality Monitoring and Data Profiling to find out what they do, and Data Quality Tools to get your copies and try them out. Let us know what you think at The Data Studio.

Another talk: How "Big" Ruins "Tech". This one at the British Computer Society, Kent branch. It's the most important message, I think, and a difficult one to get to the people I most want to hear it. Let me know what you think at ron@thedatastudio.net.

Ron Ballard at British Computer Society, Canterbury

  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a product, the main purpose of which is to extract money from Microsoft clients. ... and don't think that you should buy Salesforce instead!
  • "Crypto" - what a blight on the human race!
  • The Book