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Another ‘Web 2.0 isn’t what you think it is’ post
Border control, by Mussi Katz, Flickr I really don’t want to add to the web3 debate (not least because I have skin in the game, advising a PR agency that works with DeFi firms), except to make some...
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Coming to terms with terms (Digitisation)
There’s lots of grey when it comes to three terms that as a journalist I used rarely because they were such turn-offs to readers and editors alike. But companies like them and they’re useful, up to a...
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Bring on winter: We’re out of good ideas
Internal rate of return on VC investment, 1980-2008 (Source: The returns of venture capital investments) We seem to have approached a point where the existing guard has run out of ideas, and the...
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The Real Threat from AI
We are asleep at the wheel when it comes to AI, partly because we have a very poor understanding of ourselves. We need to get better – fast 2023-01-27 Clarification: I refer to ChatGPT throughout but...
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Not ChatGPT, but still the real thing
DALL-E: ‘gaslit in a noir style’ 2023-02-03 I wanted to follow up on last week’s piece on what I perceive to be problems with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In particular, whether what I was interacting with was...
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Chatting our way into trouble
The success of ChatGPT (in winning attention, and $10 billion investment for its owners, OpenAI) has propelled us much further down the road of adoption — by companies, by users — and of acceptance....
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The political implications of AI
Releasing OpenAI’s chat bot on the world is the first salvo in an arms race, and both companies and governments are ready for it. Are we? My experience being gaslit by OpenAI’s GPT is no longer an...
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GPT: Where are we in the food chain?
On November 29 2022 I implored the tech world to bring on winter: We’re out of good ideas. I should have kept my mouth shut: The next day ChatGPT was unleashed on the public, and we haven’t paused for...
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Why are we suddenly talking about an AI catastrophe?
Why, all of a sudden does it seem that artificial intelligence is out to kill us? And why do I think it might well, although not in the way most people imagine? Since the sudden success of ChatGPT a...
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Generative AI: Another way at looking at our new overlord
We have grown sick of social media. But what comes next? We have had nearly two decades of it now and it’s made a lot of us unhappier. What’s coming next could go either way. In some ways generative...
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OpenAI’s flawed bid for mass adoption
There’s a lot of excitement, understandably, about ChatGPT rolling out a “roll-your-own” ChatGPT tool. In fact, it’s been so popular OpenAI have had to suspend new subscriptions, and I’ve several...
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The last few days of chaos at OpenAI have illustrated some deeper chasms within the tech world about the future (and ethics) of artificial intelligence. That it seems to have ended with Sam Altman and...
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Bubblenomics
Cory Doctorow is one of those people I’ve never met, but I think of as one of the Elders of Web 2.0. Someone who was there for the first bubble (the one that popped in 2000/1) and so has seen the...
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Why did journalists ignore the biggest miscarriage of justice in British...
Why do journalists not cover some stories — even massive ones — and can they be persuaded to? I’m writing about the UK’s Post Office scandal elsewhere, but for this column on How Journalists Think, I...
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Politics, polarisation and pity parties: the Post Office scandal unpicked
This is the second in a series of pieces trying to explain what happened in the UK’s ongoing Post Office scandal and why it matters. The first was about the lack of media coverage the story received...
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Destroying the brand to save it
Troops marching through a village during the Vietnam War. Location and date unknown. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams) Companies spend a lot of time talking about their brand(s). But to most journalists the word...
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Why do journalists destroy those they love?
There’s a moment in Lynn Alleway’s documentary “Camila’s Kids Company: The Inside Story where Camila Batmanghelidjh emerges from a UK parliamentary grilling and the paparazzi are there, calling out...
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Yes, we should care about Julian Assange
Still from Annotated short version, Collateral Murder, WikiLeaks It’s easy for most people — journalists included — to look the other way as Julian Assange’s case grinds to its (likely) grim end. He...
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