This piece was written as a contribution to the Open Society Foundations’ AI in Journalism Futures Project. It speculates on how people will consume news in 5-10 years’ time. Written as if these predictions have already come true, it begins by describing an ‘end state’—a vision of what information ecosystems will look like at a […]
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AI chatbots are improving at pace Large language models (LLMs) sit at the centre of today’s AI boom. They underlie chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini. These models are improving all the time: just a few weeks ago, OpenAI released what it claims is a “majorly improved” version of GPT-4 Turbo. But
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As part of my ongoing efforts to ‘kill the part of me that cringes’, rather than the part that is cringe, and to not let the perfect defeat the good, here are three poems I wrote in October. 1. It’s cold and I miss you. Amidst my den of abstractions – warrens made narrow with
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I can still write, you know. I can write like anything. I can squeeze linearity from my looping mind like juice from an orange. I lay down a trail – drop by drop – for people to follow, and usually they do. I write like I swim – without thought or hesitation, and with patience,
I. I am generally considered to be a pretty smart guy. Now to say this directly is to invite doubt and disaster. I know that. I feel it deep in my bones. It’s been drilled into me that, outside of certain domains (like rap and sports), it’s impolite to talk directly about one’s abilities. But
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