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The kids are alright
AI and social media allow children to learn and create knowledge. Don't ban them!
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Saul Howard

March 2024

Decision making needs explainable AI
Using LLMs to drive a statistical approach to decision making will only end in disillusionment
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Saul Howard

January 2024

Dramatic interfaces
Software in conflict with its user
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Saul Howard

March 2023

Is front-end dead?
Computer, call me a taxi.
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Saul Howard

February 2023

Can ChatGPT educate us?
LLMs, education and the return of Expert Systems
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Saul Howard

February 2022

A unicycle for the mind
Back when you still needed to convince people to buy a computer, Steve Jobs loved to say Apple made “bicycles for the mind”, amplifying our output to…
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Saul Howard
Total communication
As big tech buys up first media and now gaming, we might reasonably ask, is there any sector they won’t eventually consume? It can seem as if Google…
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Saul Howard
Digital Babylon won’t fall
The metaverse is at once a “lazy rebranding of the same old social networks”, and yet also an “attempt to enslave humanity”. This is a familiar place…
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Saul Howard
All is but toys
I spoke to David Wighton at The Times about Gamification of Work, who quoted me as a “fan” of gamification: Yet the impact of the pandemic on the future…
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Saul Howard

January 2022

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