Feb 3Sideways Looks #31: AI is Boring (Script), also Bears Redux Hallo from Ljubljana, Slovenia, where I am attending this year's UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. (If any of...
Jan 1Sideways Looks #30: 2023/24 Reflections, also Breakfast HabitsThe annual stock-take of the year, featuring employment, immigration, and learning good habits.
Apr 7, 2023Sideways Looks #29: A.I.-pril Fools, also Dating Data We should be learning lessons from real disinformation, not AI hype and debunked images.
Mar 22, 2023Generative AI: The Disinformation Machine Gun?Quick thoughts spurred by a really interesting analogy raised by Gary Marcus at the AI UK 2023 Conference. The AI UK 2023 Conference,...
Mar 21, 20232022/23 Work RoundupSome of the publicly available things I produced, or helped produce, in 2022.
Mar 18, 2023Sideways Looks #28: Twitter’s Latest Bad Thing, also Peanut Butter RapWhy Twitter - and other platforms - are making it harder to unpack the internet's boxes
Feb 8, 2023Sideways Looks #27: ChatGPT and Potato ModeThoughts on how AI writing tools might change everything, via a potato-based metaphor
Jan 7, 2023Sideways Looks #26: Thoughts on 2022, also Glass OnionSome things I've learned from moving to Berlin and being a 'solopreneur', and some of my plans for 2023.
Dec 19, 2022Invent-A-Human ChatGPT TestsIn which I use ChatGPT to invent over 250 people, to test it for stereotyping; and discover that ChatGPT loves the name 'Johnathan', is a...