by Andrew Maynard | Aug 22, 2023 | Blog
Connecting influences to ideas isn’t always easy — and this has just got harder with the growth of generative AI I’m appallingly bad at recalling how my thinking has morphed and evolved over time, and what or whom has influenced this process. As a result, I’m...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 15, 2023 | Blog
A list of ChatGPT prompts and example responses that are designed to help understand, explore, and become familiar with the platform — especially in an academic setting. All the links below will take you to a ChatGPT conversation. If you have an account with...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 14, 2023 | Blog
Having just finished teaching one of the country’s first undergraduate courses on using ChatGPT, I’m more excited than ever by how the tool stimulates creative and critical thinking I’ve spent the past six weeks reading over 2,000 conversations between...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 27, 2023 | Blog
23 years ago, the Sun Microsystems co-founder raised serious concerns about out-of-control technology innovation. As we grapple with the latest wave of AI, it’s time to revisit his article. In April 2000, Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy shook the world of...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 27, 2023 | Blog
We need new thinking, research, ideas, and strategies, for ensuring advanced technologies are harnessed to ensure a better future for as many people as possible. And we need them fast! This is, by any measure, a procrastination post. I’m supposed to be writing a...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 3, 2023 | Blog
Given how all over the place conversations are on safe, responsible and beneficial AI development at the moment, I thought it worth posting this chapter from the 2018 book Films from the Future In 2018 I wrote about thinking in broad, creative, and deeply...
by Andrew Maynard | Mar 13, 2023 | Blog
Like many of my colleagues, I’ve been grappling with how ChatGPT and other Large Language Models (LLMs) are impacting teaching and education — especially at the undergraduate level. To help navigate this brave new world, a number of us started a set of Frequently...
by Andrew Maynard | Mar 8, 2023 | Blog
In an age of on-demand printing and generative AI, why stick with boring business cards? I only occasionally give out business cards these days, and then it’s usually just to save someone the trouble of remembering my email address. And so when it came to...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 24, 2022 | Blog
Despite growing interest in artificial intelligence-generated art from bots like Dall•E, they haven’t really grabbed my attention. Until now. I was talking recently to my colleague Thomas Czerniawski about AI-generated images, and happened to mention in...
by Andrew Maynard | Jul 20, 2022 | Blog
It’s easy to get caught up in the here-and-now of artificial intelligence, but what does the big picture of where we’ve come from and where we’re going look like? Last fall I found myself playing around with some of the big themes and ideas that...
