For my upcoming keynote at the Education after the algorithm: Co-designing critical and creative futures symposium in Dublin, I am exploring metaphors relating to ecosystems and AI. I’ll blog the whole talk after the event, but one of those metaphors I am using is the introduction of the European rabbit to Australia.| The Ed Techie
After 3 long years, January has finally ended. On the personal front it’s been going well. Now that I don’t have as many meetings, I decided to shift the ‘vibe’ of my room from ‘home office’ to ‘vinyl lounge’. This involved the inevitable trip to Ikea, and purchase of the favourite of vinyl collectors, the Kallax unit. It’s interesting to note the manner in which the change in the physical set-up alters your behaviour. We used to have our records split across three rooms, bu...| The Ed Techie
We went to the coast for a week over Christmas, and had an unexpectedly sunny day on Boxing Day, the drinks in the picture above were outside a pub in Tresaith.| The Ed Techie
In one of our dog walking chats, Maren and I were talking about AI (I know, I know), and she was saying she didn’t really see the benefit of it in most circumstances. I was trying to be the AI pragmatist and responded that “it’s good for summarising documents”. To which Maren replied “but I don’t want that, I want to read the thing”. And Audrey has made a similar point in her newsletter pointing out that the summarised version of knowledge is “more efficient, to be sure. It’...| The Ed Techie
