Category: Culture
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Which AI type are you? (and would you mind writing a review?)
I was delivering some training for business leaders wanting to be leaders on responsible AI adoption a week or two back, and my excellent colleague began with a discussion question on AI personality types. Consider the ice well and truly broken: The Optimist The optimist looks to the future with AI and thinks: yeah, things…
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Wikipedia for Women (and why AI desperately needs it)
‘Unsurprisingly, I got stuck on Vatican City.’ Interesting piece yesterday in the news about Lucy Moore – a UK academic archaeologist and curator – who has completed a project creating a Wikipedia page for a woman in every country in the world. “She has now written biographies of 532 women since 2019, when she first…
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Auerbach on making art: ‘enjoyable; but that does not mean that it is not difficult’
One of the things that I have been listening to a lot of late is This Cultural Life, ‘in-depth conversations with some of the world’s leading artists and creatives.’ It can be enjoyable listening, but I sometimes wonder why I put myself through it. Hearing supremely successful people talk about their craft, and the time…
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AI vs Car Culture – Fasten your Seatbelts?
Just a typical Friday night in San-Fran. A Waymo driverless taxi stops in the street. A guy jumps on the bonnet and smashes the windscreen. A crowd forms, and cover the car in spray paint, break its windows, and set it on fire. I’ve been thinking a lot about cars as I’ve written God-like my…
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Dear Sky: Photographing North Korea’s Airline
Really great series of photographs by Arthur Mebius, documenting ‘the planes and people of North Korea’s airline’, previewed here.
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Harry Potter and the Death of the Hallowed
In celebration of 20 years since the first Harry Potter book was published, I thought it’d be a good chance to look back to one of my own offerings in which I offered a radical reading of Potter’s relationship to his magical art. During a short speaking tour on Mutiny in the US with Peter Rollins,…