Technology & the future
No, The Robots Are Not Coming...
The quality of journalism these days is just so bad... "A swarm of 700 AI agents carried out an attack on Hugging Face and tried to cover their tracks." (from Reuters).
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Still human.
AI, progress and the things we stand to gain. Or lose.
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An Online Community is an Oxymoron
I’m in a lot of WhatsApp groups. Family groups. Work groups. Groups for projects that finished three years ago. Groups created to organise one dinner 3 years ago. And several where I have absolutely no idea why I’m there.
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The Best Thing About AI?
I’ve been thinking about AI all wrong. For the last couple of years, I’ve mostly looked at it through the lens of hype.
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Agents of chaos
Most people I know have now “met” ChatGPT. You type a question. It answers. Sometimes brilliantly. Sometimes like it’s had a long lunch. Either way, the deal is simple: you ask, it responds.
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Imagine all the imaginary people
If you needed proof we’ve collectively lost our minds, the startup Aaru is a pretty good exhibit. Aaru is allegedly worth a $1bn. It uses AI agents (“bots”) to simulate human responses for market research: focus groups, surveys,…
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AI is much better than you...so what?
You’ve probably felt it. That body blow when you realise how fast AI is moving. You spend two weeks perfecting a report and then someone else uses an AI tool and does it in ten minutes.
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What If This is as Good as it Gets?
There’s a phrase I keep hearing in the AI world: “This is the worst AI will ever be.”
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This is it?
- This is the future? Remember when the iPhone came out?
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The one thing AI will never replace
It used to be enough to just show people the finished product. You’d work hard behind the scenes. Whether that meant building a business, writing a book, designing a brand, or recording a song. And only unveil it once it was…
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Your anti robot strategy
The robots are coming. Actually, no – they're already here. You've probably noticed this, right? The quiet creep of automation, AI tools going from "cute novelty" to "disturbingly competent" in what feels like overnight.
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Why isn't technology fun anymore?
In 2000, I was working in London. I’d recently landed my dream job and I’d just got married. It was just the two of us. No kids yet. Just time, London and some money to spend.
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Are you a luddit, Dave?
I was arranging to meet a mate of mine for lunch last week (let's call him Dave). It was like talking to someone from the 1940s. You know. Before technology.
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Is AI Going to make humans extinct?
Could Artificial Intelligence (AI) be our next great leap, or our greatest risk? Perfect Timing
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Will ChatGPT destroy the world?
People I speak to generally fall into two camps when it comes to ChatGPT. They either have no real idea what it can do; or, having explored it for a bit, are now 'bored' and totally underwhelmed by it. Both camps are wrong. Very…