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  • The Future of the Web, According to AI

    After reading a recent article in The Economist (AI is Killing The Web. Can Anything Save It? / Alternative Link) which aligned with some of the points I raised in my own post, The Silent Revolution: How AI Could Render Blogs Obsolete, I wondered how some of the current crop of Generative AI chatbots would…

  • From VIC-20 to AI: Why I’m Looking Forward to Some “Retro-Coding”

    There’s no denying it. The sun will soon begin to set on my long and fulfilling career in technology. I’m still some years off, but as I approach retirement I’m finding myself drawn back to where it all began: the simple, pure joy of coding. It’s a feeling that’s been stirring for a while now,…

  • The Silent Revolution: How AI Could Render Blogs Obsolete

    I’ve been blogging on and off for well over fifteen years, and have been through lots of phases with it. Some years I’ve been highly active, others I haven’t posted at all. Right now, I’m on a bit of a roll, but in the age of AI I’m starting to wonder how much longer the…

  • Book Review: Understanding Artificial Intelligence

    Understanding Artificial Intelligence by Scientific American.My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Understanding Artificial Intelligence is a collection of ten essays first published in Scientific American. The essays are written by different authors, including Marvin Minsky, “the mastermind of artificial intelligence” to whom the final chapter in the book is dedicated. The collection was published in…