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If you’re using IP address truncation thinking it makes data “anonymous” or “non-personal,” you’re creating a false sense of security.

With distressingly typical Silicon Valley fake-it-till-you make-it bravado, LLM creators have been telling investors that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is just around the corner (or has already been achieved!). The problem the promoters blithely ignore is that LLMs do not know how the words they input and output relate to the real world.

Many organizations rushing to cut staff in the name of AI efficiency are expected to quietly rehire those roles – often “offshore or at lower salary.”

While Silicon Valley is investing tens of billions of dollars chasing the artificial general intelligence dream, academic computing research in the U.S. is facing a severe drought.

There are two competing forces in IT, and they are at play during the GenAI era as much as they have ever been during prior eras in the datacenter.