Author: KB
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Future of Denial: to change the climate, we must first change
‘If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself’ George Orwell, 1984 I’ve been wanting to write a review of Tad Delay’s new book Future of Denial – out now with Verso – for a while now. I was kindly sent a proof copy which I read over a couple…
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Less-than-OpenAI
So interesting seeing the reporting of this this morning. OpenAI release a new version of ChatGPT… and the focus is on the fact that the voice is flirty, and that it can do equations. But less coverage has been given to the fact that ‘Open’ AI have been very much less than open about what’s…
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Working Assumptions
Really enjoying this book by Julia Hobsbawm. She’s been generous in her support for my work, and the work we do at work, and this is a very well written and clear bit of writing setting out the future of work landscape. It’s also really lovely to see an acknowledgements page like this: With the…
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AI Eno
My good friend Barry Taylor put me onto a site that a friend of his has created around the works of Brian Eno. The ‘Eno Bot’ is a (Not Very) Large Language Model – an AI trained on the accumulation of Eno’s writings, and coded into a chat interface. What’s interesting about this being an…
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War Machine + the (very) narrow path to good AI
Last week I had the pleasure of chatting to Matt Baker, of the War Machine podcast, about the book. It was a pretty rich conversation – and Matt edits up a very decent intro too! Hope you enjoy listening. I also went up to Oxford on Thursday to go to a lecture being given by…
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Drunk ex-Pastors
I sent them a free book.I’m not even sure they read it.They got the title wrong a bunch of times.They admitted that they doubted anyone in their audience would know who I was.The podcast description fails to mention anything about it.This was some serious professional operation! But, honestly, it was a blast to chat about…