There’s been a fascinating story brewing in software development which has exploded into my social timelines in the last few days. A creative suite called ArtCraft has been making headlines in software circles as it is an open source, lightweight Read more
It has been a fascinating week in the world of artificial intelligence. The subject has broken containment, and it seems like everyone is talking about it. I was listening to a football podcast and the hosts started talking about AI Read more
There’s a fascinating legal conflict brewing online that has really caught my attention. This story has everything: niche online communities, obscure horror fandom, internet drama, independent film-making, misappropriation of internet culture, and Creative Commons licences. It involves SCP (Secure. Contain. Read more
It’s been a quiet month here at Llama Towers because I have been writing an article on memorisation and I haven’t had the right mental space to blog, so this will be a bit of a short one. I was Read more
While a lot of the attention in the AI and copyright space has gone to the hundreds of ongoing cases in the US, courts around the world have been tackling the question of copyright infringement already, with several landmark decisions Read more
One of my favourite science fiction novels is ‘Rainbows End‘ by Vernor Vinge. The year is 2025 (yes, seriously), and the world is a mixture of the familiar and the bizarre. Advances in medicine allow older people to become mobile Read more
A fascinating ruling from the High Court of Delhi in India regarding the very high-profile case of ANI Media v OpenAI (decision here). Asian News International (ANI) is one of India’s largest news agencies, which supplies text and video syndication Read more
A few days ago there was an interesting post by Andrew Curran that got a lot of responses which was discussing why AI in science fiction often does not have the capabilities that AI already has in reality. I thoroughly Read more
For years I was not really interested in the subject of AI consciousness, it was one of those subjects that I equated with unreasonableness at the extremes of the debate, but in which I did not have any strong opinions. Read more
Back in 2013, Google developed a controversial piece of gear that has long lived in infamy, Google Glass. This was an interesting proto-AR wearable device that contained a camera, earphones, a touchpad, and a small display that was heralded as Read more