Why AI people don't get us ordinary people
Dear Quite a few of you have shared some of your existential dread about AI, and I realise that I may have contributed to some of that. I want to try to...
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[loose wire blog] Anticipating the wave train of AI
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[loose wire blog] getting to grips with our AI fetish
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[loose wire] Yes, we should care about Julian Assange
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[how journalists think] Destroying the brand to save it
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[how journalists think] from peckham angel to devil: Camila and the journalist
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[loose wire] Politics, polarisation and pity parties
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[how journalists think] Why did we ignore the UK's biggest miscarriage of justice?
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[how journalists think] the brutal economics of investigative journalism
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[loose wire] bubblenomics
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Another way of looking at our new overlords
html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" Dear Subscriber, here's my latest take on the...
Why all this talk of an AI catastrophe
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[loose wire] Where are we in the GPT food chain?
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[loose wire] are we ready for an AI arms race?
Dear Subscriber, it’s me again, harping on about ChatGPT and its implications. I guess I just feel something momentous has happened, and everyone is stuck on...
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[loose wire] Chatting our way into trouble
Dear Subscriber, my second in what is likely to be a series exploring implications of ChatGPT that are either played down or ignored by the AI community....
The Real Threat from AI
Dear *|FNAME|*, hope this finds you well, and best wishes for the new (lunar) year! This piece is a little on the long side, but I hope you’ll forgive the...
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[loose wire] What Lies Ahead?
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[loose wire] Vertical histories
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[loose wire] Vertical histories
_How we shoot and watch video is changing, and with it the way we engage with the world _ The two iconic images of the fall of Kabul involve a C-17 taking...
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[loose wire] beware the theatre of digital first
Dear Subscriber, hope you’re well; here’s an off-the-cuff offering about something I am beginning to feel a bit more conflicted about — how digital newcomers...