Category: AI
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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…
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Motivation – intrinsic or extrinsic?
Follow my interview on BBC Radio last week, i’ve been thinking more about job quality, and our motivations for work. There’s a really good piece I came across here which outlines some principles around extrinsic motivation (an external driver such as financial reward) and intrinsic motivation. What’s interesting – as set out in the RSA…
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AI and the Novel
I’ve been thinking a bit about Generative AI and the particular form of writing that is the novel. And the more I think about it, I’m becoming convinced that the novel – which is an exceptionally distilled form of creativity, one that takes perhaps the longest time of any art form, and is ultimately created…
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‘People want the human story’ – Björn Ulvaeus on new AI ‘artist’
Interesting piece on the Today programme this morning about a new ‘artist’… who is totally AI generated: Ben Gaya It’s… not what I’d call a ‘hit’ – though they do. But it raises interesting questions about the purpose of art, of music… and of ‘soul’. Because, whatever the new sunny uplands of AI, soul is…
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Data on our minds… emotion-tracking technologies at work
Great to have been involved in the writing and production of this new report. ‘Affective computing’ is about digital tools to track emotions – if you’re smiling enough on a Zoom call, or if your eyeballs are on your screen like a good worker’s should be. Linked with other data – biometrics, sickness etc –…