Not ChatGPT, but still the real thing
I wanted to follow up on last week’s piece on what I perceive to be problems with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In particular, whether what I was interacting with was ChatGPT or not.
The Real Threat from AI
We are asleep at the wheel when it comes to AI, partly because we have a very poor understanding of ourselves. We need to get better – fast 2023-01-27 Clarification: I refer to ChatGPT throughout but it would be more accurate to call the interaction as being with GPT-3, the underlying technology driving ChatGPT, which … Read more
Bring on winter: We’re out of good ideas
Internal rate of return on VC investment, 1980-2008 (Source: The returns of venture capital investments) We seem to have approached a point where the existing guard has run out of ideas, and the internet community has run out of patience. I am probably wrong, but I would like to believe that the next few years will … Read more
Coming to terms with terms (Digitisation)
There’s lots of grey when it comes to three terms that as a journalist I used rarely because they were such turn-offs to readers and editors alike. But companies like them and they’re useful, up to a point, to help us understand this process we’re going through. The terms are digitisation, digitalisation and digital transformation. … Read more
Another ‘Web 2.0 isn’t what you think it is’ post
I really don’t want to add to the web3 debate (not least because I have skin in the game, advising a PR agency that works with DeFi firms), except to make some observations about its predecessor. I feel on safer ground here because was there, I know what I saw: Web 2.0 wasn’t what most … Read more