How things are made

Chat GPT is like an e-bike for the mind Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Twitter, 16 December 2022 “We think the casualisation problem will be solved by AI in about 15 years or so.” University CEO, 2019 1 Hello, it’s been a while. May 2020: something about refusal, and then three years of careful-what-you-wish-for. Three years of writing that refused to be written, as we all tried to find our footing in a pandemic that wouldn’t end, and wouldn’t end,…

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US/not us

We need to have more conversations with people who are not us. Chris Gilliard, #DigPed, August 2016 1 It’s 5am. It’s dark outside, and cold inside. My daughter’s in the kitchen banging cupboard doors and making coffee. She’s up to watch the Olympics, and she wants company. Blearily we straggle out to join her and slump on the couch under blankets, trying to figure out what’s happening. Skeet shooting, what is that? Divers fall from the sky in apparently perfect synchronisation. They enter…

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