Research – Mark O'Neill

AI as a brainstorming tool

One of the “carrots” of the AI pushers is that it will make us more effective researchers and creators. Given that LLMs are literal fabulation engines I am dubious but Stanford University have just released a trial of their embryonic brainstorming AI called, er, STORM. So let’s give it a go with an input: “AreContinue reading “AI as a brainstorming tool”

Daisy Daisy

So the Tony Blair Institute have done another of their Marvel/DC team-ups this time on AI. I was not going to discuss it but on second glance it does have some interesting aspects. The report is good but suffers from many of the same issues that such reports always have: the belief that the UKContinue reading “Daisy Daisy”

NDA #3 – Minded

I have written before about 2 of the programmes I have worked on where the NDAs I signed have expired. This one is different. For a start, there are no bears involved but, more importantly, the status of that NDA is unknown for reasons which will become apparent. For reasons which escape me, humanity hasContinue reading “NDA #3 – Minded”

Disclosure

January 1st, 2020 and one of the many NDAs I have been bound by has now expired. So I can tell you about one of the odder projects I have been involved in. As I have said many times, above a certain size and complexity organisations embrace mediocrity as the only way to hold themselvesContinue reading “Disclosure”