Author: KB
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Hallucination: an ancient and modern concern
I’ve been asked a few times about how the work I did in GETTING HIGH links to the issues raised in the new book GOD-LIKE, and I wanted to answer that with some thoughts around the issue of hallucination. GETTING HIGH plots the history of the human quest for flight, mainly through the twin prisms…
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Mutiny against Mutiny – overcoming a Supreme (in)Justice in an atomised world
Are you worried yet? I am. Genuinely. But what to do? When to act? The past few days have been some of the most politically concerning since I can’t remember. The RN making major gains in voter share in France. The way that the Supreme Court in the US ruled on the powers of Federal…
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AI-Cadabra: say it’s AI and make it so | Talking AI with Caputo
In the last post I set out how we see a sense of ‘magic’ being ascribed to AI systems – especially Generative AI – and this is no more clear than in the icons that tend to get used for them. I’ve been in New Mexico this week for a family wedding, so have been…
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AI has the gift of magic, and that magic is us
There’s a fascinating episode of This American Life just released last week that focuses on “people tethered to one particular other person, whether they want to be or not.” The second act of the show concerns a comedy writer who meets an old friend at a wedding, an old friend who happens to now work…
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Living with the Algorithm – an expert interview with Lord Tim Clement-Jones
It was both a great privilege and great fun to interview Lord Tim Clement-Jones as part of the expert AI conversations that I am putting together. Tim is one of the leading voices in the House of Lords around AI regulation and online safety, and brings great wisdom and passion – and wit – to…