The snippets below are what I took away from a 29th June The Guardian article titled ‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind’. “When I first joined DeepMind, it was not at all clear how you were going to get AI you can talk to. Now, by […]
“Let me activate my copywriting expertise …” Sycophantic ChatGPT was bad enough, but I’m not warming to what Claude Opus 4.8 concludes is a personality. Once again, let’s meet again on the other side. Supergraphics, or How Buildings Learned to Shout Let us begin, as one must, with a definition. A supergraphic is a graphic element scaled […]
Two weeks ago I thought I’d give my handy native Chinese AI assistant Doubao (豆包 = Bean Wrap) the job of writing its version of my post of last week. Apart from the first and last sentences, the prompt was about the same level of detail as a note I might make as a seed […]
The future arrived last week in the form of WordPress with enhanced AI functions. I was not happy that this future downloaded and installed itself as a non-consensual update. The AI STUDIO button appears in the toolbar by default but disappears when you close the sidebar. I used the next paragraph to run some tests. […]
