Kester Brewin

Category: Culture

  • BlueSky

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    Not going to lie, it took a long time building a strong presence on Twitter, getting verified etc. But in Musk’s hands the place has become pretty awful, so I’ve started rebuilding on BlueSky. You can find my profile here: https://bsky.app/profile/kesterbrewin.bsky.social Been reflecting on making those tough tech choices, and it feels increasingly wrong to…

  • A Continental AI Strategy for Africa

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    Very interesting discussion this morning with Rachel Adams from the African AI Observatory. Rachel is based in South Africa and has been a leading figure in putting together the Continential AI Strategy published just last month by the African Union. She’s written a paper about it with Ayantola Alayande here. You’ll be able to watch…

  • Greenbelt

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    Very much looking forward to being back at Greenbelt Festival this year. I’m giving a talk about the new book in the main talks venue on Friday morning at 11am, followed by a book-signing in the bookshop tent. Details here. 4g mobile coverage may well be very patchy, but I’ve put together a series of…

  • Hallucination: an ancient and modern concern

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    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…

  • There’s nothing we can do to stop AI stealing all our jobs! Except… urrm…

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    Atlantic magazine unearthed an extraordinarily candid video interview a couple of weeks ago, in which Brian Wu – a senior engineer at OpenAI responded to a question about AI’s impact on work: ‘I guess it’s kind of deeply unfair that, like, a group of people can build AI and just take everyone’s jobs away, and,…

  • Process This: Artificial Intelligence

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    Absolutely delighted to announce that, through the next few weeks, I’ll be curating a series of conversations around the book with the very excellent Tripp Fuller. This will begin this Wednesday with a live-stream conversation at 6pm UK time which you will be able to watch on YouTube here – or via the embed below:…