watch this space!

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been resurrecting some posts from my old blog. I was going the results here, but it started getting a bit long. Too long for this current site’s format, really. So I dropped it all into a Github Pages repository.

It’s been a while since I wanted to revive my old posts on anthropomorphised AI, and try to form them into some kind of coherent whole. Mostly I liked them as they were but they were getting quickly datad even though they were published not that long ago. Also I’ve been having new thoughts, observing nee changes since that I wanted to shove in. And there were a couple of technical errors that I wanted to deal with.

It’s longer than some long reads, not a book. Less of a clear point,and more of a winding meditation, maybe like if Adam Curtis blogged instead of making documentaries. All of my call-back references are similarly dated and maybe reaching. We can use this technology to create some amazing solutions to hard problems, or we can design it to pretend to be something it isn’t and can never be: human. The risk isn’t that they replace us. It’s that we let them turn us into something less than we can be.

But there you go.

Ghosts in the Machines The anthropomorphism trap The Demon-Haunted Machine The Bot Delusion When the machine programs you Bad prompts