Thoughts brewing in a cloudy mind.
Talking of democracy, there is a question about Ukraine that I have been curious about for some time: why have elections not taken place during the war? Before going any further, I want to make it clear that I fully understand the circumstances Ukraine is facing. Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, and … Read more
I think this might be the first, and perhaps the only, project of its kind online/offline. What if making art did not begin with a blank canvas, specialist software or the confidence to call yourself an artist? What if it began with one word? Today, I am launching CoGen Art, a collaborative generative-art experience built … Read more
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming the most powerful technology humanity has ever created. Yet we’re building it as though it’s just another product, locked behind closed doors, developed in competition, and controlled by a handful of companies racing to be first. What if we’ve got it backwards? This series argues that AI has outgrown the … Read more
For the past few years we’ve been told that the future of artificial intelligence depends on competition. Build bigger models. Raise more money. Buy more GPUs. Hire more researchers. Beat everyone else. The assumption has been that if enough companies compete, humanity will somehow end up with the best possible AI. But what if the … Read more
If AI is becoming humanity’s most important technology, why are we building it like a smartphone app? When I suggested that the world should stop building competing frontier AI models and instead create One AI – a single open-weight, open-source foundation model developed for humanity – I received the response I expected. “It’s a nice … Read more
Throughout history there have been moments when humanity realised that competition alone wasn’t enough. Sometimes the stakes become so high that cooperation becomes the only rational strategy. Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of those moments. Today, the world’s most valuable companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to build increasingly capable AI … Read more
Over the past year, a new acronym has become the latest buzzword in digital marketing: Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO). The promise sounds compelling. Optimise your content for AI systems like ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Perplexity, and your business will become more visible in the age of conversational search. For some agencies, GEO is being presented … Read more
Quick test: how many phone numbers can you actually recite from memory right now, without opening your contacts app? If you’re like most people, the honest answer is somewhere between “my own” and “maybe one or two others.” And that’s not a failure of memory – it’s just what happens when a device remembers everything … Read more