A recent book review I uploaded (thanks to a recommendation by my friend Fiona who I have some back and forth conversations about AI), was Benjamin Labatut’s The Maniac. I think it’ll be one of the best books I’ll read this year as it’s about how man wants to understand – and overcome – nature. […]
Fake News in Our News Media
Everyone is talking about how one of our biggest news channels this week used generative AI to Photoshop one of our politicians photos. Of course she was a young woman and she called it out in X even saying that she knew the photo was clearly wrong because she also has a stomach tattoo that […]
AI Prompts for Inspiration 
Is this a thing now? Selling prompts for ChatGPT? Spare me. There has to be something bizarre when people spend more time refining their questions and asking a machine that trawls through all the sites online some genuine, some not and full of crap…and then pull them together and make them into more products […]
Everything That Is Wrong With Companies Use of AI
Yeah, right. I wouldn’t be LOLing. A friend sent me this tweet yesterday and I had to roll my eyes when I read it. (People send me screenshots of ego-driven LinkedIn posts, weird Instagram photos and various other social media posts so in a way, I’m constantly reassured that getting off social media was one […]
How To Distinguish Truth From Fiction
Continuing onto the third skill highlighted in Robin Good’s article “What We Really Need to Learn to Be Successful in Life – Part 1″ is How to Distinguish Truth from Fiction. Good question. How do we? Especially at an age where it may seem that everything we read and see online may be fake. Going […]
New Video Book Review: Man-Made by Tracey Spicer
If you haven’t already heard about artificial intelligence then you may have been living under a rock but trust me, if you could move over a bit, I’d like to come in there under with you too. This book is a collection of chapters based of research and interviews on how technology today is using […]
Democratic Inputs to AI
Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law. — Read on openai.com/blog/democratic-inputs-to-ai *********OpenAI isn’t really open. It’s actually owned by Microsoft who bought it a […]
Artificial Intelligence For Good
I’ve been going down the rabbit warren of AI and realised that I’m reading and seeing more of the bias in these machines versus the good they can do in the world. After all, most of us are using them in our everyday lives just to function through our devices, calendars, maps etc. I wanted […]
AI Writes a Novel
I hope this product dies a quick death. This tweet stream was sent by a good friend and I nearly choked on my coffee while the developer was going through the demo. Pseudo alright. Read the comments. Then I did a search on YouTube. Already there’s some writers using this tool. It’s making me think […]
AI & The Future of Humanity
This video is worrying. Harari talks about how AI can be a danger for humanity. To be honest, I’m fearful of the future. I’m not a fan of AI but I know that’ll it be part of our lives (and is) already. In the early 20th century when atomic energy was discovered, the Allied powers […]
“Why Do I Have to Look Shit Up For This Machine?”
An excellent post by Alan Devine showing his frustration with ChatGPT. The quote however hits the mark. Lying, Hallucinating? I, MuddGPT – CogDogBlog — Read on cogdogblog.com/2023/05/i-muddgpt/ Another good conversation to follow in Mastodon (HT Stephen Downes) in response to the recent Guardian article by Naomi Klein called AI Machines Aren’t Hallucinating, Their Makers Are […]
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan
I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. I like to think (right now, please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past computers as if they were […]
All Writing is Human
I’ve decided to add another icon on my Home page of this site and along the right banner of each page that shows that all writing on this site is created by me – and not by a bot like ChatGPT or the myriad of others that we will soon be seeing. When I created […]
It Would Feel Like The World Is Gaslighting You
That’s the comment by the two researchers from the YouTube video below if you’re the one questioning AI. This video is mind boggling about the power of Gollem AIs and how companies like Microsoft are now embedding these into their products – and all in an unsafe and unchecked manner by these few tech companies. […]
A Worrying Future
It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of AI. Well, to be clear – it’s not the technology per se – it’s the lack of trust in the tech bros and people who will rush to use AI in everything for ultimate power, control or profit. So far, it seems much of the discussion […]
Klara and the Sun Book Review
Can bots be our friends? I’ve got a new book review up on YouTube. This one is by British novelist, Kazuo Ishiguro and it’s one that stays with you long after you put the book down. Themes of love, hope, loneliness, human-like bots made to be AFs (artificial friends) for children, genetic editing and uplifting, […]
Dabbling With Stable Diffusion: A Puzzle for You
I started playing around with this text to graphic AI image generator called Stable Diffusion. The program allows you to create different images you can use without the need to use copyright images (although I wonder if these images would be repeated if the same search terms are input by others? 
) Here’s some images […]
A Lesson For Me on Posts Written By ChatGPT
Argh. 
I read this post by David Hopkins and it resonated with me wholeheartedly. Until I read the bottom line that it was written by ChatGPT. 
Geez. It was good. It pulled at me heart strings because it resonated with my own experiences with blog writing! My lesson? Despite the sentiment and similar […]
50 Goals to Achieve In Life According to AI
So I continue to ask ChatGPT some questions to see what answers it returns to me for a bit of fun. I’m fast becoming aware that AI is like that nerdy and logical person that we all meet in life that takes things as they are. Never questioning, never taking risks, never enjoying life, never […]
First Carbon, Now Silicon
I majored in Organic Chemistry (with Honours) and I’ve only just realised that the element just below Carbon is Silicon….and that’s how the world is going. One shift down in the Periodic Table of Elements, yet one big massive move for mankind. I stumbled upon this mesmerising video today inspired by Yuval Noah Harari. What […]