Wim Vanderbauwhede

The current crop of generative “AI”, by which I mean the products of OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google and the likes, is of course deeply problematic for all kinds of reasons: they are an ethical nightmare, and fast on their way to becoming an environmental…

Considering the sheer volume of mobile phones, and the high greenhouse gas emissions resulting from their manufacture, it is imperative to extend their useful life by several decades.

These are the slides for the talk “The Anti-Dystopians’ Guide to Generative AI – for students & educators” which is based on the guide of the same title written by Alina Utrata.

These are the resources for a webinar I have delivered in collaboration with Catherine Brys.

I was interviewed by Elena de Sus of Spanish progressive magazine CTXT (Contexto y Acción).

In this article I have a look at the cost of running queries for GPT-4 and similar models, in view of the drop in price per prompt.

Climate change is an environmental problem.

Chat-assisted search is one of the key applications for ChatGPT.

A few notes on what the computing scientist Edsger Dijkstra said and didn’t say about Fortran, and the origin of that term “infantile disorder”.

In this post I’d like to explain how we have embedded sustainability and decarbonisation learning outcomes in our undergradudate Computing Science and Software Engineering degree programmes.

(Open)AI needs enormous amounts of energy and compute hardware.

I wanted to know if the Uxntal primitives are complete, in the sense that they allow access to all elements on the stack (what I call “covering the stack”).

When @lizmat asked me to write a post for the Raku advent calendar I was initially a bit at a loss.

In a previous post, I introduced Funktal, a frugal functional programming language created for the Uxn VM.

Funktal is a functional programming language for the Uxn virtual machine, a tiny VM with 8-bit opcodes and 64 kB of memory.

ChatGPT and other AI applications such as Midjourney have pushed “Artificial Intelligence” high on the hype cycle.

For a little compiler I’ve been writing, I felt increasingly the need for immutable data structures to ensure that nothing was passed by references between passes.

I wrote a proof-of-concept compiler from Uxntal to C.

Quoting in Uxntal: lambda functions, tuples and lists for free What does it take to bring functional programming to a stack-based assembly language?

On the need for low-carbon and sustainable computing and what developers can do about it.

Compilers are pieces of software that convert program code from one format into another.

I am a lambdacamel and therefore I like to adapt concepts and techniques from functional programming, and in particular from the Haskell language, to Raku.

The CO₂ emissions from manufacturing and use of digital devices (laptops, phones, tablets, TVs, …) are huge and rising steeply.

A few weeks ago I released Haku, a Japanese natural-language programming language.

Haku is a natural language functional programming language based on literary Japanese.