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
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
- My position on AI (for future reference) 25 August 2023
- You can't debate bullshit (and some links) 14 August 2023
- 'The LLMentalist Effect', and other links 4 July 2023
- 'A prayer wheel for capitalism', and other links 19 June 2023
- 'What's the game?', and other links 12 June 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
- Poisonings, Corporations, and other links 8 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
- Copyright, Situating Search, and other links & notes 27 February 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
- Madeline, Existential Terror and other links & notes 16 January 2023