Connections
Much has been written about the ‘eager to please’ nature of contemporary LLMs. This goes beyond the fine-tuned, guard-railed ‘personality’ of the model (see my experiments with LLM personality from last year) – fundamentally the…
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Found in Translation
As I write, it is early 2024, and it feels like “AI” has very much gone overground. For a lot of people, this means playing with generative systems for producing images (and rudimentary videos) from…
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blert – crowspiracy
The vast majority of current artistic activity around AI systems is in the visual domain. However, tools are arriving daily which operate in different domains. One area I find particularly fascinating is speech and music…
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The Death of the Author
My presentation: “The Death of the Author, AI and the future of writing” from #copycon21
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Machine Imagined Art ^2
Just over seven years ago, I created a generative work called ‘Machine Imagined Art‘, based on the then recently released data set from The Tate. The system uses the ontology from the Tate data, and…
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LinkedIn
After a small amount of consideration, I joined LinkedIn, the social network for business. Mostly because I’d heard it is a hotbed of self-indulgent personal-brand-development – which I find fascinating and horrific in equal measure.…
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Algonory
Jackanory ran on BBC television from 1965 until 1996, and was a cornerstone of childhood for anyone raised in the UK between those years. The format was simple: an actor would read a book in…
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algocurios
My friend Matt Muir compiles a weekly newsletter of articles and links from across the internet (you really should subscribe). His prose style is distinct, and delightful, and the relatively short gobbets of text readily…
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I’m old enough to remember Tony Blair coming to power in 1997. The country ebullient at the thought of a left-leaning leader after 18 years of Tory rule. I also remember his inevitable fall from…
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Algo Incantations
I recently had the pleasure at speaking at ‘Adventures on the edge of culture‘ with John Higgs, Melinda Gebbie, Alan Moore and others. I wanted to create a new algorithmic work which could be distributed…