Peter Stannack

“Whoever hurled the first word began civilization.” –– Popularized by Sigmund Freud Does social media hold us to account? Today’s conventional thinking is little changed since the industrial revolution took hold a few hundred years ago. The #industrial…lnkd.in/ew6pdKCW

Amidst the rampant use of algorithms -sets of instructions- enabled by #AI, the common- essential- theme of AI systems is the human factor. Humans play an essential role in designing, developing, and operationalizing AI systems. We have a remit to ensure…lnkd.in/esqAdDRU

“Complexity is a solvable problem in the right hands.” —JEFF JARVIS “Technology is not really about hardware and software any more. It’s really about the mining and use of this enormous data to make the world a better place,” Eric Schmidt, Google’s execu…lnkd.in/eKBrMJBa

In the mainstream canon -belief system- of #economics, #wealth originates from material sources: nature (land), physical #labour and #capital. The accumulation of these assets takes place through #trade and #war. This accumulation is static – more of the…lnkd.in/eQ3xKmiS

Is social a playground where you can test new- and not too different- ‘personalities’? In relative #anonymity?   Because what is a social life but a kind of #fable in which the actors test the effectiveness of their disguises? Each plays his assigned par…lnkd.in/eTrnizX5

“I’ll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of imagination.” — Ursula LeGuin The Left Hand of Darkness Immanuel Kant, writing at the end of the eighteenth century, defined the parameters…lnkd.in/eS7D6Bxd

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” –Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride (1987) Exclusive #language proliferates on the web. It has -apparently led to an era (or some similar time period) of ‘#post-truth’ But it i…lnkd.in/e7qr-wvJ

Everybody wants to be #reasonable, no? Reasonability is not essential to participation on #LI, Although the more we participate in such belief structures, the safer we feel. Surrounded, as we are- by people who seem to think, feel, #experience like us- a…lnkd.in/eSuRRGFU

Embarassing? You don't know the half of it. In Gnosticism, from God’s point of view, the existence of the world is an embarrassment. This is what the Gnostics taught. Neither the world nor we were ever meant to exist. Nonexistence is a perfection of the…lnkd.in/euPEbq9f

A few weeks ago, I dropped out of LinkedIn. Nobody noticed. And so- neither did I. In part this was also provoked by the fact that I had seen a reference to an FT piece suggesting that the Internet no longer 'worked'. How silly! Of course the Internet 'w…lnkd.in/edD7aBkZ

The Devil makes work for idle hands? And has techno-automation degraded work? And humans generally? (Too late, sport!) Because we use to have face to face interactions. And while we might still have #Zoom to Zoom interactions, and incredible numbers of…lnkd.in/euUCyxy3

Philosophy is the midwife of wisdom. —Plato, Theatetus Well, maybe. Is philosophical wisdom and open mindedness any use to us at all? Because instinct is way more effective. Don’t you think so?  I mean, can you have an effective #philosophy without #exp…lnkd.in/egJrRVaE

No lie, AI. Or is it just a #panic driven misunderstanding? “Machine learning is a method of data analysis that automates analytical model building. It is a branch of artificial intelligence based on the idea that systems can learn from #data, identify…lnkd.in/eEXi8GMG

"Prompt engineering is the process of creating prompts or asking or instructions that guide the output of a language model like ChatGPT. It allows users to control the output of the model and generate text that is tailored to their specific needs. ChatGP…lnkd.in/enzyYJFg

What’s the difference between #AI and the British Monarchy? Looking at the Coronation of both the new ‘King’ and ‘AI’ we can see themes. Both seem to promise more than they can deliver. For others than themselves. And both seem embedded in ceremonies and…lnkd.in/eerkuBpH

What’s the difference between #AI and the British Monarchy? Looking at the Coronation of both the new ‘King’ and ‘AI’ (geddit?) we can see themes. Both seem to promise more than they can deliver. For others than themselves. And both seem embedded in cerem…lnkd.in/evEDzpxY

Pretty good being alive, no? But are you? Or is the #WorldWideWeb a second-hand or maybe a charity shop for experiences. Where we can pick up bargains. That don’t quite ‘fit’. And with which we can engage with in only limited ways. Although we believ…lnkd.in/ewpwF_ih

“I should like merely to understand how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him; who is able to harm them only to the extent…lnkd.in/errp6-Gz

Adaptation is wonderful. But who, and what controls the ways you adapt? Yesterday, I read “A Policymaker’s Guide to Foundation Models” by IBM (thanks) where claims were made about the innate essentialism of Artificial Intelligence to the future of the hu…lnkd.in/eHuf5-RH

Which of us would admit to being a control freak? Not me! You'll never pin that on me!   Yesterday, I read “A Policymaker’s Guide to Foundation Models” by IBM (thanks) where claims were made about the innate essentialism of Artificial Intelligence to the…lnkd.in/ewNWmtXF