Category: Economics
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Future of Denial: to change the climate, we must first change
‘If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself’ George Orwell, 1984 I’ve been wanting to write a review of Tad Delay’s new book Future of Denial – out now with Verso – for a while now. I was kindly sent a proof copy which I read over a couple…
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Less-than-OpenAI
So interesting seeing the reporting of this this morning. OpenAI release a new version of ChatGPT… and the focus is on the fact that the voice is flirty, and that it can do equations. But less coverage has been given to the fact that ‘Open’ AI have been very much less than open about what’s…
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AI Eno
My good friend Barry Taylor put me onto a site that a friend of his has created around the works of Brian Eno. The ‘Eno Bot’ is a (Not Very) Large Language Model – an AI trained on the accumulation of Eno’s writings, and coded into a chat interface. What’s interesting about this being an…
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War Machine + the (very) narrow path to good AI
Last week I had the pleasure of chatting to Matt Baker, of the War Machine podcast, about the book. It was a pretty rich conversation – and Matt edits up a very decent intro too! Hope you enjoy listening. I also went up to Oxford on Thursday to go to a lecture being given by…
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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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Smashing chat… or how to be a Luddite
Last week I was invited to join the Ned Ludd Raoddio Hour for an interview about the new book. You can listen to it above, or via the podcast page here. Ned Ludd is the legendary figure who, having smashed two industrial knitting machines in protest at their replacement of human craft, gave his name…