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Tag Archives: ai history

Image of Orwell’s 1984 book cover.

Big Brother Thinks George Orwell used AI

Artificial Intelligence, Foundations of AIBy Mat Newcomb26 August, 2026

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” This is my favourite opening sentence in any novel, which you may recognise as being from George Orwell’s 1984, which was published in 1949. This dystopian novel involves a society with mass surveillance, secret police and a political class that manipulates…

A geological cross-section of software eras: machine code, COBOL, Java, cloud, AI agents, prompts, vector DBs. All stacked like archaeological layers. At the top: chaotic glowing AI systems. At the bottom: old stable layers.

AI Legacy Code – The New COBOL

Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Topics in AIBy Mat Newcomb18 May, 2026

One of the areas where large language models (LLMs) like Anthropic’s Claude have made substantial progress is in generating computer code. Just as LLMs can produce outputs in English or Spanish, they can do so in computer languages like Python, Java, Ruby and more. This is all very cutting edge, and the true effect on…

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