Time flies when you're having fun. Measure spiders when you're not.
Lots of people have been having fun with DeepSeek, a fascinating new AI from China. Whilst many have been probing its censorship – try asking about Tianamen Square 1989, some have been managing to bypass its output filters by requesting the output in forms such as like leetspeak or similar encodings. Input and output filtering
Every now & then something new and exciting-looking comes along. And it isn’t always obvious, without looking into it dispassionately and in great detail, just how revolutionary it really is. Or isn’t. Blockchain, for example, was supposed to solve all manner of problems. Many specialist blockchain companies sprang up. Some of them even still exist,
When you read an article now online, do you really know who wrote it? Human or AI? Or some hybrid combination? How would you know? Are you sure? Can you be sure? I read an interesting article by Kester Brewin describing the AI Transparency Statement he created for his latest book. This seems, to me,
One of the areas unlikely, in my view, to ever be replaced by AI is that of coming up with brilliant ideas. It’s so difficult to define this process because inspiration often has no logical basis other than perhaps, in some cases, being “obvious” once expressed, but not obvious enough to have been expressed by