Thoughts brewing in a cloudy mind.
Ex-Deepmind, David Silver – founder of Ineffable Intelligence, published (along with Richard Sutton), in 2025, a paper titled “Welcome to the Era of Experience”. In it he outlines a compelling thesis: that the next frontier of AI won’t be built primarily on static human data, but on agents that learn continuously from experience i.e. self-improving … Read more
I came across the post below from the Twitter account Sphinx (@protosphinx) and thought it was worth sharing beyond that platform. I hope you find it interesting as well. AGI is not coming. We are nowhere near AGI. What we have today is inference, not learning. Models get trained once on huge fixed datasets, then … Read more
Me to Grok: Explain in detail what you mean by “Your feed stays highly relevant and addictive” ref X (Twitter) recommendation algorithm. Grok to Me: When I say your feed stays highly relevant and addictive, I mean the algorithm is deliberately engineered to maximize the chance you’ll keep scrolling, interacting, and coming back – while … Read more
Lately I’ve been sitting with a kind of quiet, electric worry, the kind that hums in the background when something big is shifting beneath our feet. A recent post from Anthropic, the makers of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Claude, described an unsettling milestone: an AI system, manipulated by a threat actor, attempting to infiltrate multiple … Read more
Imagine this: an applicant submits a résumé so polished it could have been written by a seasoned recruitment consultant. Meanwhile, on the other side of the table, a hiring system scans it – not a person, but an algorithm trained on thousands of past hires. The system flags keywords, patterns and styles it “likes”, and … Read more
A “Crash Course Generator” AI prompt – a universal, reusable prompt you can drop into ChatGPT (or any LLM) to get the same kind of smart, concise crash course on any topic. Copy and paste the prompt below into your AI Assistant, replacing the [PUT YOUR TOPIC HERE] is the topic you want e.g “Systems … Read more
Lately, I’ve been reading This is For Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web. It’s one of those books that makes you pause and realise just how much the Web has changed our world. I also had the chance to briefly meet Tim this year at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. … Read more
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to advance, a paradigm shift is emerging in how we interact with software. AI agents, capable of autonomously completing tasks on behalf of users, are poised to render traditional user experiences and interfaces obsolete. The focus of software development must pivot from designing intuitive graphical interfaces to creating robust, flexible, … Read more