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AI, Covid, and what happens when we start checking the experts
Technical Chops by Simon Minton
Insightful analysis and in-depth, easily digestible understanding of the medium to long-term effects of emerging technologies.
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Buying the Badge
Ferrari's Luce, EVs and the one thing a Tesla can't sell
Transparent Aluminium
AI is mapping every material we could have. Making them is another matter.
26x
Mind. Blown.
The Models Don't Matter Anymore
Frontier releases keep coming, but for businesses, focusing on flexible infrastructure pays bigger dividends than chasing the latest and greatest.
Chasing Cool: Jaguar’s Gamble
Jaguar Redesign, EVs and China
Balancing Speed and Accuracy in LLMs
Speed, Accuracy, Considered Thought and Trust
The Future of Mobile: Contextual Computing, App Clips, and Apple’s Privacy Revolution
Contextual computing is reshaping how we interact with technology.
Consensus in the Machine: A New Method for Tackling LLM Hallucinations
Triple Modular Redundancy for LLMs
AI: The Ultimate Sherlocking?
History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes
Wu-Tang Forever? The Bizarre Afterlife of a $4 Million Album
Once Upon a Time in DAOlin
AI Goes to Hollywood
What could the arrival of AI mean for Hollywood?
Apple Intelligence: Context Matters
Apple's Artificial Intelligence is finally here
AI Inputs and Outputs in the Real World
Creating objects in the real world with AI
Will AI kill sites like Booking.com? AI as a Personal Aggregator
What will the arrival of personal AIs actually result in?
Generative Video: Targeting You Soon
A huge leap forward in generative video
Apple and AI
Apple is further ahead with AI than most think
How hard is being an assistant anyway?
What it takes to be a good AI Assistant
Sebastifact: A fact machine for 7 year olds
Using GPT to create a fact machine
Ray-Ban Meta Glasses: Truly Wearable AI?
Giving AI Eyes and Ears
Short thoughts on chatting with an AI
Multi-modal AI is here
OK Computer: 21st Century Sounds
Musical curation and creation, Spotify and AI
It’s about to get very noisy
Large Language Models (LLMs), content creation and filtering signal from noise
Webinars and the Evolution of Playbox
Playbox: My first foray into an AI product
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