Alaa

Engineer | Tweets vary between tech and nature; own opinions, nevertheless.

[Alaa @alsaedwy]

Just got my first official AWS blog post published on the AWS Containers Blog!
It is about logging ECR Image Scan Findings into CloudWatch using a Lambda function, have a look here https://t.co/UZ8H8358RC

#AWS #ECR #containers #CloudWatch #Lambda

[Alaa @alsaedwy]

@airfrance my checked-in baggage is lost in CDG by you, and it has a present to my friend in Egypt for his wedding. Can you help?

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

600,000 people, a quarter of Gaza's population might be dead.

But @piersmorgan will not call it a genocide.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Aged like milk

[Alaa @alsaedwy]

"Opportunities in life come through people. Who do you need to connect with to gain access to the opportunities you want?"

@JamesClear

I guess myself would be a good start.

[Alaa @alsaedwy]

This Muslim man is my brother @mussabholloway. Who is an English philosophical poet, have a look at his productions, quite amazing!

[Censored Men @CensoredMen]

🇵🇸🇮🇱 A Muslim man thanks Orthodox-Jews for supporting Palestine.

[Alaa @alsaedwy]

@eircare are you guys aware that MyEir is not working for about a week now?

I've tried everything; clearing browser cache, different browsers, different devices.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

What a moment. To be quoted in the first few moments of the event is... quite validating, of course. Also inspiring to keep improving, keep opening doors and keep creating. Good looks Tim (doesn't mean I'm going easy on your new phones though 😅)

[Alaa @alsaedwy]

@SueAdel1 Their whole interactions are badass 😄

[Alaa @alsaedwy]

Love these guys, keeping it real.

[dbrand @dbrand]

The customer is always wrong.

[Bjørn Karmann @BjoernKarmann]

Introducing – Paragraphica! 📡📷
A camera that takes photos using location data. It describes the place you are at and then converts it into an AI-generated "photo".

See more here: https://t.co/Oh2BZuhRcf
or try to take your own photo here: https://t.co/w9UFjckiF2

[Sam Altman @sama]

summer is coming

[Peter Nixey @peternixey]

I'm in the top 2% of users on StackOverflow. My content there has been viewed by over 1.7M people. And it's unlikely I'll ever write anything there again.

Which may be a much bigger problem than it seems. Because it may be the canary in the mine of our collective knowledge.

A canary that signals a change in the airflow of knowledge: from human-human via machine, to human-machine only. Don’t pass human, don’t collect 200 virtual internet points along the way.

StackOverflow is *the* repository for programming Q&A. It has 100M users & saves man-years of time & wig-factories-worth of grey hair every single day.

It is driven by people like me who ask questions that other developers answer. Or vice-versa. Over 10 years I've asked 217 questions & answered 77. Those questions have been read by millions of developers & had tens of millions of views.

But since GPT4 it looks less & less likely any of that will happen; at least for me. Which will be bad for StackOverflow. But if I'm representative of other knowledge-workers then it presents a larger & more alarming problem for us as humans.

What happens when we stop pooling our knowledge with each other & instead pour it straight into The Machine? Where will our libraries be? How can we avoid total dependency on The Machine? What content do we even feed the next version of The Machine to train on?

When it comes time to train GPTx it risks drinking from a dry riverbed. Because programmers won't be asking many questions on StackOverflow. GPT4 will have answered them in private. So while GPT4 was trained on all of the questions asked before 2021 what will GPT6 train on?

This raises a more profound question. If this pattern replicates elsewhere & the direction of our collective knowledge alters from outward to humanity to inward into the machine then we are dependent on it in a way that supercedes all of our prior machine-dependencies.

Whether or not it "wants" to take over, the change in the nature of where information goes will mean that it takes over by default.

Like a fast-growing Covid variant, AI will become the dominant source of knowledge simply by virtue of growth. If we take the example of StackOverflow, that pool of human knowledge that used to belong to us - may be reduced down to a mere weighting inside the transformer.

Or, perhaps even more alarmingly, if we trust that the current GPT doesn't learn from its inputs, it may be lost altogether. Because if it doesn't remember what we talk about & we don't share it then where does the knowledge even go?

We already have an irreversible dependency on machines to store our knowledge. But at least we control it. We can extract it, duplicate it, go & store it in a vault in the Arctic (as Github has done).

So what happens next? I don't know, I only have questions.

None of which you'll find on StackOverflow.

(I write on AI from a technical and product perspective. If you find that interesting then please do follow me for more)

[Alaa @alsaedwy]

@mckaywrigley I've watched some of your other videos, and seeing you killing it makes me happy! Well done!

[Santiago @svpino]

AI will not replace you. A person using AI will.

[harley turan @hturan]

here’s a force-directed knowledge graph interface for @OpenAI’s gpt-4. given a topic, it prompts new questions to ask based on its own generated responses, allowing curiosity-led exploration of a concept.

[Alaa @alsaedwy]

Game changer; options are limitless.

[Grant Lee @thisisgrantlee]

The most valuable skill in business is about to become obsolete.

Designing a killer slide deck used to take days. Now AI can do it in seconds for anyone.

Introducing Gamma: your AI design partner for presenting ideas beautifully.

Launching today at https://t.co/HrkL4w2vG7

[Alaa @alsaedwy]

Just passed my #Terraform Associate exam yesterday, thanks to the very straight to the point course by @AddamsTJ

https://t.co/Chv9cgNcAX

[tawny @tawnniee]

tfw you're not good at programming

[Mckay Wrigley @mckaywrigley]

I hooked up an iOS shortcut to GPT-4 and GitHub.

Here’s how it works:
- identifies the repo
- identifies the target files
- writes the code for me
- creates a branch
- commits changes

Now I can code right on my Apple Watch with nothing but my voice!

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

On Friday, the sun put on a dazzling show for us. My friend @TheVastReaches and I worked hard over the last 5 days to produce this incredibly detailed 140 megapixel image to illustrate how wonderfully dynamic and beautiful our star can be. Make sure you zoom in!