Tag: AI

  • Telling AI what to do – what should we call it?

    Telling AI what to do – what should we call it?

    As we scramble to understand what generative AI tools mean for us, language to describe this new world is emerging. Common coinage is being created and I am nervous that it will be left to engineers again. I hope for greater elegance of phrasing. During the early days of the web, clunky metaphors arrived. “Surfing” […]

  • Are task based skills in terminal decline?

    Are task based skills in terminal decline?

    So much of our work (my work, anyway) can be described as “what we do in front of a computer”. What happens when we can talk with that computer and ask it to conduct those tasks rather than do them ourselves? What skills do we need to learn then? This is the thrust of the […]