AI and the Art of Manipulation

AI and the Art of Manipulation

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...

A Practical Guide to Using ChatGPT in the Classroom

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...

Generative AI Business Cards

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...

Antarctica through the eyes of artificial intelligence

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...

An Artificial Intelligence Thematic Mind Map

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...

Future Rising Now Available in Korean

For anyone looking to read Future Rising in Korean, now you can! Future Rising has just been published in South Korea, in  a Korean translation. It’s available online, and in bookshops! The Korean version of the title translates as “How do we read the...