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Tools not oracles

LLMs and intelligence analysis

Jun 10, 2024 •

May 2024

Who makes the decisions?

How we can use AI to understand the world.

May 21, 2024 •

April 2024

The kids are alright

AI and social media allow children to learn and create knowledge. Don't ban them!

Apr 24, 2024 •

March 2024

Decision making needs explainable AI

Using LLMs to drive a statistical approach to decision making will only end in disillusionment

Mar 22, 2024 •

January 2024

Dramatic interfaces

Software in conflict with its user

Jan 4, 2024 •

March 2023

Is front-end dead?

Computer, call me a taxi.

Mar 28, 2023 •

February 2023

Can ChatGPT educate us?

LLMs, education and the return of Expert Systems

Feb 9, 2023 •

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…

Feb 7, 2022 •

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?

Feb 3, 2022 •

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”.

Feb 2, 2022 •

All is but toys

I spoke to David Wighton at The Times about Gamification of Work, who quoted me as a “fan” of gamification:

Feb 2, 2022 •

January 2022

We are entering a new age of knowledge work: the Remote Era.

Jan 24, 2022 •

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