Posts tagged with "ai"
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← Back to all posts- Three circles for thinking about LLMs 12 May 26
A Venn diagram for clarifying what's actually at stake when people argue about whether LLMs are intelligent, conscious, or just stochastic parrots....
- On Agentic Tools and Lock-in 4 May 26
A response to Lars Faye's 'Agentic Coding is a Trap': LLMs have the lowest vendor lock-in of any tool I've used in 20 years....
- Ask Ben (powered by Gemma 4) 3 Apr 26
An in-browser chat widget running Google's Gemma 4 E2B via WebGPU, primed with all the content from this site so you can ask it questions about me....
- Perceptron apparatus: inference walkthrough 19 Mar 26
An interactive walkthrough of the perceptron apparatus---a 1.2m wooden table that classifies digits using sliders and a circular slide rule....
- Mini neon perceptron: XOR edition 3 Mar 26
A 4-input, 3-hidden, 2-output mini perceptron that solves diagonal XOR---with an interactive 3D digital twin to play with....
- LLMs Unplugged at Brimbank Tech School 9 Feb 26
A hands-on AI workshop for educators at VU Sunshine Campus, covering AI fundamentals, paper-and-pen predictive models, and change management....
- AI Agents on (in?) the Atmosphere 6 Feb 26
Stateful AI agents are showing up on Bluesky and ATproto---with soul documents, read/write memory, and scheduled self-reflection....
- Out of the browser: on the power of interfaces for agentic AI 5 Feb 26
The leap from browser-based ChatGPT to terminal-native coding agents isn't about smarter models---it's about removing the sandbox....
- Coding agents and the plasticity of code 23 Dec 25
Code has always felt brittle---most changes break it. Coding agents change that dynamic, absorbing the cognitive load of big refactors and making code feel plastic rather than rigid....
- Fixing slow Zed agent startup times 17 Dec 25
Claude Code sessions in Zed were taking 30 seconds to start. The culprit: npx fetching Playwright MCP on every launch. The fix involves global installs and mise shims....
- Interactive neon perceptron visualisation 11 Dec 25
An interactive 3D digital twin of the Neon Perceptron---a physical neural network built from flexible LEDs. Draw on the input grid and watch activations flow....
- LLMs Unplugged: teaching language models with pen, paper, and dice 10 Dec 25
A hands-on teaching resource where learners build bigram language models with pen, paper, and dice---no computers required. Tested with school students, public servants, and tech professionals....
- Seeing AI tasks through a TAM lens 12 Nov 25
AI adoption research keeps asking 'do you use ChatGPT?' when it should ask 'for which tasks?' A task-level framework for thinking about when LLMs actually save you time....
- Tracking APS AI Transparency Statements 11 Nov 25
A new project that scrapes and version-controls AI Transparency Statements from Australian Government agencies, tracking how they change over time....
- Cybernetic Studio Launch @ SXSW Sydney 8 Oct 25
Launching the Cybernetic Studio at SXSW Sydney with human-scale AI artefacts: a wooden neural network table and a pen-and-paper language model....
- Running Claude Code within Zed 23 July 25
Switching from Zed's Agent panel to Claude Code for flat-fee pricing, with a simple task config to keep the workflow inside Zed....
- Agentic AI: LLMs with stones 17 July 25
Agentic AI is about giving LLMs tools to act in the world without asking first. The real shift isn't new capabilities---it's the removal of the human bottleneck....
- LLM Parlour Games for Overeducated Wankers 7 Nov 24
Workshop materials for designing and playing parlour games with LLMs, including LLM-augmented 20 Questions and Adventures in Amphibology....
- Hosting a genAI trivia night 12 Aug 24
Using an LLM to generate trivia questions, then letting teams challenge any answers they think the model hallucinated....
- Congrats Dr. Chenchen Xu 1 June 23
Celebrating Chenchen Xu's PhD on weakly supervised sign language understanding, completed through lockdown....
- Writing graph theory proofs with ChatGPT 8 Feb 23
Asking ChatGPT to prove the five colour and four colour theorems with my mathematician father-in-law, and his reaction to the results....
- Academic integrity guidelines re: ChatGPT and generative AI tools 2 Feb 23
Draft guidelines for allowing ChatGPT in university coursework while maintaining academic integrity, with citation and accountability requirements....
- Congrats Dr. Kieran Browne 26 Jan 23
Celebrating Kieran Browne's PhD graduation and his thesis on the neurological metaphor in deep learning....
- Are you ready for ChatGPT in the classroom this semester? 16 Jan 23
Practical advice for educators on incorporating ChatGPT into their teaching this semester rather than pretending it doesn't exist....
- A School of Cybernetics strategy meeting with ChatGPT 7 Dec 22
My first ChatGPT conversation: asking it to brainstorm strategy for the ANU School of Cybernetics. Impressive output, but we're going to need to get better at drinking from the bullshit firehose....
- Drinking from the bullshit firehose 7 Dec 22
Draft notes on AI-generated bullshit in higher education---the problem isn't that it's wrong, it's that Brandolini's law means we'll be overwhelmed by the sheer volume....
- AI art installations and livecoding gigs in Nov/Dec 6 Dec 22
A roundup of recent creative work: the Panic AI art installation with its big red button, plus a livecoding set at OzCHI 2022....
- AI in higher education: dystopia, utopia or something in between? 13 Oct 22
AI tools in higher education won't operate in isolation---they'll reshape information flows between students, instructors and institutions in ways we need to watch carefully....
- So this is how it feels when the robots come for your job 30 June 22
GitHub Copilot is a genuine force multiplier for coding, but human expertise is still crucial---a Conversation article on what AI assistants mean for programmers....
- So this is how it feels when the robots come for your job: what GitHub's Copilot 'AI assistant' means for coders 30 June 22
A pointer to my Conversation article on GitHub Copilot and what AI coding assistants mean for programmers....
- Redacting craiyon prompts with imagemagick 22 June 22
A one-liner ImageMagick command to batch-redact the prompt text from craiyon (DALL-E mini) screenshot outputs....
- Running an AI neural style transfer model under Singularity 1 Feb 22
Getting a pytorch neural style transfer model running on RTX 3090s via Singularity containers, navigating CUDA version hell along the way....
- The Other Side: Algorithm as Ritual in Artificial Intelligence 24 Apr 18
Kieran Browne and I performed a live AI divination ritual at alt.chi---using analog computing to commune with an artificial intelligence....