On framing: how AI influences the question we answer You ask an AI tool to help with a piece of writing. The answer reads well and includes a few phrases you would not have thought of yourself. You make a few changes and think: yes, that is what I mean. But is it also where … Read more

AI does not roll its eyes. It does not sigh when you change your mind for the tenth time. And it starts again without complaint. What a relief. Finally, someone to talk to who adapts to your pace, your wishes and your ideas. But what if we slowly get used to a world where the … Read more

We did not need to understand Excel fully before starting to use it on a massive scale. AI will probably be no different. Only this time, the software is getting more scope to act on its own. Almost everyone who works in an office knows Excel. But how many people know Excel really well? My … Read more

Sometimes an old song lyric suddenly seems written for a time that did not yet exist. In 1976, the Eagles sang in Hotel California: “We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.” Almost fifty years before we would all be walking around with a smartphone in our hands. A coincidence, of course. By … Read more

Yesterday, my LLM tool made a small mistake. I had shared a photo of a handwritten reflection. The tool misread one word and then used that misreading in the reflection it wrote for me. I corrected it. The tool looked at the photo again and confidently offered a different interpretation. Wrong again. Nothing particularly dramatic. … Read more

In an earlier article, I wrote about a question that becomes increasingly important as AI can act more independently: If AI can do something, what may it decide for itself? While continuing to build and test TiepMiep, the typing course I developed with AI’s help, a second question emerged: If AI has done the work, … Read more

AI can do more and more. At first, we mainly asked a chatbot questions. Now AI can write texts, analyse information, program and increasingly carry out tasks independently. Such an AI system is often called an agent. That is useful. But it also raises an important question: If AI can do something, does that mean … Read more

And why we should avoid repeating all the pharmaceutical industry’s mistakes. AI systems are getting more scope to act independently. They search for information, combine sources, advise people and can use tools to take real actions. This raises an important question: How do we know such a system operates under sufficient control? AI companies talk … Read more

A good answer is not always a good outcome. I now work with AI almost every day. To write, build software, explore questions and sometimes simply examine my own thinking. The longer I work with it, the less satisfied I am with one simple measure: Was the answer good? Because that leaves a lot unsaid. … Read more

I now also use AI for daily self-reflection. I discuss my experiences of the day with a custom GPT: work, home, sport, things that went well and things that stayed with me. Not to tell me what to do, but to complement my thinking. To see connections, organise my thoughts and occasionally receive a question … Read more