I try and cut through the hype whenever I can. I'm not suggesting I'm good at it, but I try. In the AI world, the hype machine is...

Open AI recently had to roll back some changes made to its model because it was leaning too far into sycophantic behaviour, which led to...

I’ve always loved horror in all its forms as long as it is at a safe distance, be it movies, books or games. In my mind they satisfy our...

Agentic AI is all the rage at the moment. It isn’t just the influencers filling my LinkedIn and youtube feed telling me so. The...

The wetware in your head, aka your brain, is slow. So very slow. The information transfer between neurons has a typical latency of...

I’ve always been a bit hesitant to use the word   think   when it comes to Generative AI model. If we look at the term purely as a...

I read a long time ago that there were researchers that used William Gibson’s Neuromancer as a fun way to measure technological progress....

MIT and OpenAI teamed up to ask a very important question: How do interactions with AI chatbots affect people’s social and emotional...

Cortical Labs have created something quite amazing. They’ve productionised an in vitro biological mini brain. When reading about it, I...

I like words.  In my youth I thought a language was a pretty static thing and that new words were brought into the language through some...

Went to the Everything Electric here in Sydney this weekend.  The number of Chinese car brands there to take on the Musk-mobiles were...

Gapminder (Gapminder ( https://www.gapminder.org/ ) is an independent educational non-profit fighting global misconceptions. They’ve tested...

I read an interesting article by Avital Balwit, the Chief of staff to the CEO of Anthropic. It was published in May, 2024 and it begins:...

One of the main protagonists in the book THE GOD VIRUS discusses the idea of a singularity and whether it is a flawed concept. “Once an...

A recent interview that was posted on linkedIn where I discuss how my role as IT architect and author intersect....

There are many different ideas of what consciousness is and how it manifests itself. In the research paper “A landscape of consciousness:...

I love AI. I love the fact that AI has been brought into the spotlight these past few years instead of hiding in the murky back alleys of...

In my first post (ref_1) about this I argued that we hadn’t defined AGI or ASI as a term in a way that allowed us to make sensible...

There are many words used to define different aspects of what it means to be living. I found one that boiled it down to the basics:...

I love all the new technology on display at CES 2025. I especially like the weird and wonderful gadgets that are on display.  Check this...