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Stephen Downes

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O'Reilly sells technology books and as such is in a good position to see what the future holds buy looking at what people are studying on its learning platform. So what do they see? "The next wave of AI development will be building agents: software that can plan and execute complex actions." Also, there's less interest in learning programming languages and more interest in learning about security. In raw numbers: "From 2023 to 2024, Machine Learning grew 9.2%; Artificial Intelligence grew 190%; Natural Language Processing grew 39%; Generative AI grew 289%; AI Principles grew 386%; and Prompt Engineering grew 456%."

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