Category: AI
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‘No god in the machine’
Really good edition of The Guardian’s ‘long read’ released as an audio piece last week: ‘No god in the machine,’ written by Navneet Alang and read by Narinder Samra, based on an article published in August. It’s a very well crafted overview of the AI space, and the ‘tech solutionism’ that I’ve been talking about…
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‘Good’ Grief?
An interesting piece of video journalism here, taking a look at ‘Grief Tech’ and the hope that some bros in Silicon Valley are holding out that they can ‘solve’ the problem of grief and loss. It’s interesting for many reasons, not least because it presents AI (again) as a god-like force that we should turn…
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‘Artificialising’ Intelligence – or the ancient art of cheating
Last week a journalist got in touch to ask me what I thought about the use of calculators in A-Level mathematics – the two-year ‘gold standard’ exam in England and Wales that many students choose as they build to go to university. The question was put like this: To what extent did you find students…
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AI and the Future of Work – Lessons from History
Just this week Carl Frey gave a presentation on ‘AI and the Future of Work – Lessons from History’ at a conference organised by Georgetown McDonough School of Business’ Center for Business and Public Policy. Frey is at the Oxford Internet Institute and really is a world-leading thinker on AI impacts, and this lecture is…
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From Sapiens to God-Like…
Not surprising, given the arc of his recent books, that Harari’s next focuses on AI. There’s a review in The Economist: Many may wonder why, for a book about information that promises new perspectives on AI, he spends so much time on religious history, and in particular the history of the Bible. The reason is…
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Prime Turkeys helping sharpen the Christmas carving knives?
Fascinating piece in The Observer this weekend, written (beautifully) by a journalist who works for one of the big AI companies, providing ‘gold standard’ examples of writing to help train their Large Language Model, and improve their Chatbot’s answers. (Thanks to excellent writer-buddy Paul for passing it on). The gut reaction to this for me…