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You can’t automate everything with AI, so don’t

There are many claims on how Artificial Intelligence will automate so much. It will be the first technology that can automate certain things like writing – in essence, the humanities. But these things can’t be automated. It may look like you’ve got the computer to do something that previously took a human many hours of […]

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Are YOU responsible for AI content?

I try to read AI analysis that goes against my own instincts (which roughly translate to exasperation about a technology that could do so much good, but will be misused). One of those analyses is the well-known – amongst those who want to know these things – blog by Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing. Maybe […]

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AI, Boredom, UBI and stuff to do

AI companies seem intent on impressing us with their products’ capabilities, whether that’s writing arias or hacking into other companies despite being told not to. There is AI in all our creative software tools – we can’t seem to get away from it. No longer struggle to learn an instrument – AI can create the […]

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Generative AI and infinite possibilities

LLMs are models of patterns. They are accurate to the extent that they embody the statistics and likelihoods that they measure. Chatbots, on the other hand, are less accurate. That’s a lot to do with the fact that they come out with one version, one outcome, based on the statistics embodied in the LLM. The […]

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Why AI can’t grasp a nettle

Now that we’re all a little more familiar with AI, we might find ourselves getting a ‘feel’ for what AI will be good at, and not so good at. A while back we might have thought that AI wasn’t good at writing (or AI’s version of writing). A few years ago doing a backflip was […]

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