Category: News
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Yes, the audiobook for God-like is coming…
Thanks to everyone who’s requested this. Obviously, I’ve taken the pirate approach… taking control of the means of production… 🏴☠️ … but I’m fortunate to have some good audio production resources built up with various work projects and band stuff over the years. It’s actually quite enjoyable to do… but will require some honing, so…
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The Future of Work and Wellbeing
It’s been quiet around here, mostly because my energies have almost exclusively been focused delivering a conference and 180 page report for the closing of the Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing. This is a major, 3-year research project completed with multi-million funding from the Nuffield Foundation exploring how AI and automation…
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14 hallmarks of fascism
Excellent piece from back in 1996 in the New York Review of Books that came across my timeline this week – Umberto Eco on 14 hallmarks of fascism. Highly recommended read. They really are extraordinarily prescient. In summary: The question I’ve been asking myself is this: how does fascism end? Is war required? Or does…
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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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‘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…