A fascinating article by Abbas Asaria in The Guardian today about the proliferation of pork-based products in Spanish food and the link to the Inquisition. This makes sense, but even more fascinating is how this turns…
Browsing Category Humans
Claude’s new constitution
Anthropic has written a constitution for Claudethat contains detailed explanations of the values they would like Claude to embody and the reasons why. In it, they explain what we think it means for Claude to…
Naming AI tools after dead philosophers
Google has apparently bought a promising AI start-up that specialises in AI voices that sound extraordinarily natural and human-like, with high emotional awareness and appropriate responses in conversations. All based on research. It’s called Hume…
AI clones of dead grandparents
How difficult would it be to bring deceased grandparents, parents and ither family members “back” in the form of AI-generated avatars? Perhaps easy visually, but generating a believable voice, personality and memories is another story….
Soft skills in an age of AI
Some interesting responses to Natasha Singer’s article, “As Schools Embrace A.I. Tools, Skeptics Raise Concerns“, in the Letters to the Editor section today: “With the proliferation of A.I. tools and the push for their adoption…
Mandira
Who would expect to find an Ayerveda wellness resort in AUstria?
Is it time for Europe to place economic sanctions on the US?
I am South African, and although I only experienced the justified sanctions on the country as a child, as an adult I realise both how santioning the country sent a message globally about what was…
Eierlegende Wollmilchsau
Apparently, a multi-hyphenate is someone who does lots of things, and has lots of hyphens in their job title. For example, I am a futures facilitator-science communicator-storyteller-sustainability chamption-educator-trainer-workshop designer-urban walker-artist. Am I a specialist who…
You call it procrastination. I call it thinking.
You call it procrastination, I call it thinking. – Aaron Sorkin The story: In a talk about procrastination, Adam Grant shared this quote about procrastination. Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter behind “Steve Jobs” and “The West…
On Attention
Attention changes the world. How you attend to it changes what it is you find there. —British psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist