Category: Technology
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Darwin Award Nominee – Rigging ChatGPT to an Assault Rifle
This will either end badly for him. Or for all of us. Truly, the Age of Stupid 😬
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God-like ‘most compelling radical theology text I have read’
Many thanks to Tripp Fuller for including God-Like in his top 20 reads for 2024. Thrilled to have that generous support for the book from someone who reads a LOT, and is an all round very smart thinker too. Some great other books on the list too – including my friend Tad Delay’s excellent exploration…
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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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Motivation – intrinsic or extrinsic?
Follow my interview on BBC Radio last week, i’ve been thinking more about job quality, and our motivations for work. There’s a really good piece I came across here which outlines some principles around extrinsic motivation (an external driver such as financial reward) and intrinsic motivation. What’s interesting – as set out in the RSA…
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Overqualified?
I ended up on PM – the BBC’s flagship 5pm news show last week, chatting to Evan Davis about a report that showed that British workers are more likely than most to be overqualified for the job they do. There’s important questions here about the quality of jobs that are being created as we go…