Author: KB
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New Work – Reading on Tues 21st Jan
If you’re in London, I’m going to be doing a short reading of some new poems at Morocco Bound bookshop in Bermondsey on Tuesday 21st Jan. Details here.
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New Year: Resolution?
I’ve been asked a few times – more than last year, it feels, subjectively – what New Year’s resolutions I have. A couple of times in, having dismissed the question, it was asked by my writing group. Well, when a group of writers ask, people you’ve opened your notebooks too (a place more vulnerable than…
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Is the net closing for GenAI developers?
A new report published by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office – the ICO – a few weeks back saw some pretty stark reading for AI companies: We found a serious lack of transparency, especially in relation to training data within the industry, which our consultation responses show is negatively impacting the public’s trust in AI……
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God-like ‘most compelling radical theology text I have read’
Many thanks to Tripp Fuller for including God-Like in his top 20 reads for 2024. Thrilled to have that generous support for the book from someone who reads a LOT, and is an all round very smart thinker too. Some great other books on the list too – including my friend Tad Delay’s excellent exploration…
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Apple Intelligence? Not so much…
Anger has been growing around Apple’s AI-generated notifications on people’s iPhones that have – multiple times – been incorrectly summarising new stories. For example, before he’d even played the match, Apple’s AI was claiming that the BBC were reporting that Luke Littler had won the PDA Darts World Championship: The same system was also happily…
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Meta goes… meta
Welcome to 2025, the year where AI really does its best to embed itself in our lives, for which you can read: get under our skin and up our noses. Meta – the owners of Facebook / Insta etc – already came out of the blocks with the launch of a bunch of AI profiles…