Democratisation and AI
I keep hearing AI fanatics talk about the “democratisation” of various skills. For example, AI image generators are said to allow users to express their ideas …
Artificial Intelligence Index
The LLM of the Gaps: AI, God and Death Angst
I want to unpack something I’ve been thinking about for a while; arguments in favour of the ‘sentience’ of LLM chatbots, and AI in general, …
LLMs Have Plateaued. Now we can finally figure out what to do!
The most intimidating thing about thinking about technology, whether as an academic, a policy maker or just as a human being trying to imagine the next five …
ChatGPT: An Uncritical Friend?
I’ve recently found myself getting on a bit of a soapbox in my conversations with ChatGPT. Naturally, as an academic and particularly as a philosopher, I …
AI Literacies launch
On Friday I attended the launch event of the AI Literacy initiative of the Digital Society Research Group, aka DISC, at Manchester Metropolitan. I recently …