Kester Brewin

Category: News

  • Apple Intelligence? Not so much…

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    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…

  • Meta goes… meta

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    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…

  • ‘People want the human story’ – Björn Ulvaeus on new AI ‘artist’

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    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…

  • Data on our minds… emotion-tracking technologies at work

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    Great to have been involved in the writing and production of this new report. ‘Affective computing’ is about digital tools to track emotions – if you’re smiling enough on a Zoom call, or if your eyeballs are on your screen like a good worker’s should be. Linked with other data – biometrics, sickness etc –…

  • Future Narratives Lab

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    On Tuesday next week (Tues 26th) I’ll be presenting at this event in London hosted by Future Narratives Lab, focusing on how we understand ‘work’ and what this means in a coming age of intelligent machines. FNL are a brilliant outfit who help craft narrative workshops to explore topics in depth in a guided way.…

  • The Day Job

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    I don’t say a huge amount about the work I do day to day, but I thought it’d be worth flagging some of what I’ve been up to. I’m an Associate Director at the Institute for the Future of Work, a reseach charity exploring how AI and automation are changing work and working lives in…