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Small language models are not a plug-and-play way to get generative AI. But they do have their uses. I’ve learned some lessons about making them work smoothly. For almost a year now, I’ve been tinkering around with LLMs (AI tools you run on your PC; also called small language models, or SLMs). In the […]
A 40-year-old album, generative AI and social disruption: we need to talk. These are the days of miracle and wonder, Paul Simon sang 40 years ago now. That Graceland album was controversial, but it was also a thing of wonder. Decades later, the irony with which he sang The Boy in the Bubble is […]
ChatGPT launched as a consumer tool in November 2022. Nearly four years later, here’s how generative AI tools have changed my working life (or not). It’s been over a year since I did a post about the ways in which I use generative AI. So, I thought, time to see what’s stayed the same, […]
AI safety rankings, one Google mega-study and a publicist’s “two bowls” theory – three things that caught my eye… This blog post gets published every two weeks. It’s about generative AI and making content (or both at the same time). There should be no shortage of things to write about. And yet, there are […]
Generative AI tools are not bastions of privacy and security. Here’s what you need to know about anonymising documents to work carefully and securely. Picture the scene: you are working on a document for a prospective new client, which they want kept confidential. You also want to use generative AI to, say, summarise the […]
Usability is not a strong point in generative AI tools. Claude is there with the worst of them, but it’s worth persevering. We all know that person. Ask if they want a cup of tea, and it turns out they must have a particular brand of peppermint leaf tea, served in a bone china […]
Generative AI makes content and makes a mess. What to do? Use a tried-and-tested content production system. I think most people who read about AI know that there’s a phenomenon called “vibe coding”, which is when people prompt AI tools to generate code rather than writing it by hand. Now, there’s a new twist […]
A thought experiment: if generative AI didn’t exist, what would we miss? And what about the whole digital world? It’s been three-and-a-half years since ChatGPT was launched. And it’s been more-or-less half a century since the internet came into existence, depending on who you believe. As The Guardian pointed out in 2009, “it’s impossible […]
A way to think about responsibility that makes sense, both when working with generative AI and personally. Responsibility. What is it actually? I’ve done a fair amount of thinking and writing about it, and I still like the Terry Pratchett version. This passage in Wee Free Men has young witch Tiffany Aching facing the […]
Are the companies which make generative AI dreadful? Yes. Is the whole thing bad for people? Almost certainly. Should I use it anyway? Yes, but slowly. My generative AI training partner and I are in the process of writing final evaluation reports for training we’ve done over the last seven months. Starting on September […]
