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Taking games seriously
Enterprise software design is converging on the patterns of game design because work is now fully virtual and game interfaces are the language of the…
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Saul Howard
The Remote Era
We are entering a new age of knowledge work: the Remote Era.
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Saul Howard
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
Is front-end dead?
Computer, call me a taxi.
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Saul Howard
Can ChatGPT educate us?
LLMs, education and the return of Expert Systems
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Saul Howard
Who makes the decisions?
How we can use AI to understand the world.
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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”.
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Saul Howard
Tools not oracles
LLMs and intelligence analysis
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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?
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Saul Howard
The kids are alright
AI and social media allow children to learn and create knowledge. Don't ban them!
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Dramatic interfaces
Software in conflict with its user
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Saul Howard
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
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