This page contains all of what I’ve published on this website on AI.
A lot of it is research for my book: The Intelligence Illusion: a practical guide to the business risks of Generative AI.
I’ve also post a few longer essays and extracts on my newsletter site:
- Generative AI is the tech industry’s Hail Mary pass
- Artificial General Intelligence and the bird brains of Silicon Valley
- AI code copilots are backwards-facing tools in a novelty-seeking industry
- The poisoning of ChatGPT
- Google Bard is a glorious reinvention of black-hat SEO spam and keyword-stuffing
- The truth about the EU AI Act and foundation models, or why you should not rely on ChatGPT summaries for important texts
- The Elegiac Hindsight of Intelligent Machines
For more of my writing on AI, check out my book The Intelligence Illusion: a practical guide to the business risks of Generative AI.
Writing in Artificial Intelligence
- 'Slop': the rhetorical gambit of framing failure as partial success 24 June 2024
- The mainstreaming of 'AI' scepticism 19 June 2024
- The lifecycle of a tech bubble 10 June 2024
- The 'AI' chaos 27 May 2024
- 'I'm shocked -- shocked! -- that LLMs are being used to generate slop' 13 May 2024
- React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity 2 May 2024
- The unsustainability of the AI Bubble 29 April 2024
- Again, my position on LLMs is that you absolutely shouldn't be using them with very, very few exceptions 9 April 2024
- 'This shit's so expensive': a note on generative models and software margins 8 April 2024
- 'They ban products, don't they?' 8 April 2024
- The one about the web developer job market 21 March 2024
- The Intelligence Illusion: stepping into a pile of 'AI' 11 January 2024
- Bad AI Business Models, Lazy AI Criticism, Queer Holiday-themed movies, and a bunch of links 18 December 2023
- Bad Business AI: Channel 1 14 December 2023
- Making or using generative 'AI' is, all else being equal, a dick move 2 October 2023
- My position on AI (for future reference) 25 August 2023
- You can't debate bullshit (and some links) 14 August 2023
- Language models and software quality and other links 5 June 2023
- 'Generative AI: What You Need To Know' is a free guide to help you spot AI bullshit 24 May 2023
- Prompts are unfit for purpose and other links 22 May 2023
- Writing when tech has broken the web's social contract 20 May 2023
- Praise for my ebooks 'The Intelligence Illusion' and 'Out of the Software Crisis' 18 May 2023
- Google Bard's vulnerabilities and other links 15 May 2023
- ‘What next?’ he asks with trepidation 12 May 2023
- Additions to my book, The Intelligence Illusion 12 May 2023
- My writing on AI; the story so far 7 May 2023
- The polarisation of AI discourse serves nobody except power 7 May 2023
- Beware of AI pseudoscience and snake oil 2 May 2023
- Studying the pitfalls and potential of generative code (plus links) 1 May 2023
- Why I wrote The Intelligence Illusion—a book on the risks of generative AI (available now) 28 April 2023
- Three factors of AI anthropomorphism 24 April 2023
- AI, Algogen, and Anti-Poetry 17 April 2023
- The hard truth about productivity research 10 April 2023
- GDPR and American AIs 3 April 2023
- The AI is an American 3 April 2023
- How to regulate AI 27 March 2023
- Regulating AI (plus links & notes) 27 March 2023
- AI in healthcare 20 March 2023
- AI summaries and AI healthcare (links & notes) 20 March 2023
- AI summaries are almost certainly unreliable 20 March 2023
- Keeping up with and assessing AI research (links & notes) 13 March 2023
- Why you should ignore most AI research you hear about on social media 13 March 2023
- Waiting for the AI Godot (Links & Notes) 6 March 2023
- When you promise an AI revolution, eventually you will have to deliver 6 March 2023
- Book production, AI, Single-Page-Apps, and other links and notes 13 February 2023
- AI is a Hail Mary pass and other links & notes 6 February 2023
- EU and copyright protections for AI-generated works and other notes 30 January 2023