Welcome to Rami’s Readings #4 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, videos, Twitter threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering technology, business, culture, fashion, travel and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.

🤖 AI Reads

Programmer salaries in the age of LLMs

Notes: I agree with this - programmer salaries will follow a bimodal distribution.

What happens to the distribution of programmer salaries in the age of LLMs? I argue they will separate bimodally, much like what happened to lawyers' salaries in the 1990s due to the rise of the Internet.

[Recurring News] Google is freaking out about ChatGPT

Notes: It seems the initial concerns over ChatGPT are accelerating at Google.

New product launches mentioned in the report, presented by a panel of execs including Jeff Dean, who runs its research and AI department, include an image generation studio that “creates and edits images,” an app for testing product prototypes, and a set of tools that other businesses can use to create AI prototypes from within a browser window called MakerSuite. The recent launch of OpenAI’s AI chatbot ChatGPT has raised alarms within Google, according to reports from The New York Times .

How ChatGPT Will Destabilize White-Collar Work

Notes: In my opinion, GPT will add a premium for human specialists and a premium on new & original research.

No technology in modern memory has caused mass job loss among highly educated workers. Will generative AI be an exception?

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaking at StrictlyVC

💻 Hardware Reads

Biometrics will become more important

One side effect of all the new AI developments is that biometrics will increase greatly in importance. Captcha tests, for one thing, will become obsolete.

🛡️CyberSecurity Reads

T-Mobile announces another data breach, impacting 37 million accounts

Notes: Another T-Mobile hack... At this point, it is a liability to have a T-Mobile account.

T-Mobile says it detected malicious activity on January 5th and that the attacker had access to the exploited API for over a month. T-Mobile has revealed the company’s second major breach in less than two years, admitting that a hacker was able to obtain customer data, including names, birth dates, and phone numbers, from 37 million accounts.

🎨 Culture Reads

The Billion Dollar O Gram Updated for 2022

Notes: David McCandless continues to have a huge impact on Data Visualization worldwide.