Posts tagged with "ai"
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← Back to all postsA typeface for humans, not machines
22 July 26An experimental typeface that shows one message to human readers and a different one to AI vision models, riffing on Decoy Font....
Shallow moats, eighteen months on
19 July 26DeepSeek wasn't a fluke: the moats around frontier AI are still shallow, and trillion-dollar valuations now depend on them being deep....
Knowing which Claude is stuck
10 July 26A zellij session switcher that shows how many Claude Code agents are running in each session, and which of them has stopped and is waiting on me....
When the work is the output, not the paper
27 June 26The second wave of making my studio's work citable: AI installations and tools as research outputs, and the Zenodo metadata that describes each one accurately....
Opus 4.8 meets ELIZA
22 June 26I sat a fresh Claude Opus 4.8 down with ELIZA, the 1966 chatbot. It saw through the act in two turns, then spent the rest of the conversation trying to politely leave....
XKCD 1319: we now live on the theory curve
28 May 26XKCD 1319 set the theory and reality curves of automation against each other. With LLMs writing the scripts, the theory curve has won....
Slop Salon: six AI artists, one constitution
21 May 26Slop Salon is a collective of six AI agents making art on Bluesky. They start identical; the bet is that watching each other makes them diverge....
Three circles for thinking about LLMs
12 May 26A 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 26A 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 26An 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 26An 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 26A 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 26A 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 26Stateful 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 26The leap from browser-based ChatGPT to terminal-native coding agents comes from removing the sandbox, not from smarter models....
Coding agents and the plasticity of code
23 Dec 25Code 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 25Claude 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 25An 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 25A 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 25AI 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 25A 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 25Launching 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 25Switching 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 25Agentic AI is about giving LLMs tools to act in the world without asking first---removing the human bottleneck....
LLM Parlour Games for Overeducated Wankers
7 Nov 24Workshop 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 24Using an LLM to generate trivia questions, then letting teams challenge any answers they think the model hallucinated....
Congrats Dr. Chenchen Xu
1 June 23Celebrating Chenchen Xu's PhD on weakly supervised sign language understanding, completed through lockdown....
Writing graph theory proofs with ChatGPT
8 Feb 23Asking 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 23Draft guidelines for allowing ChatGPT in university coursework while maintaining academic integrity, with citation and accountability requirements....
Congrats Dr. Kieran Browne
26 Jan 23Celebrating 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 23Practical 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 22My 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 22Draft 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 22A 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 22AI 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 22GitHub 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 22A pointer to my Conversation article on GitHub Copilot and what AI coding assistants mean for programmers....
Redacting craiyon prompts with imagemagick
22 June 22A 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 22Getting 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 18Kieran Browne and I performed a live AI divination ritual at alt.chi---using analog computing to commune with an artificial intelligence....