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Merry Christmas!

This is the fourth of the twelve days of CTRL-mas.

Today we're exploring an essay by a good friend of mine, called "Planet of the Dialectic". It is a brilliant thought piece exploring the philosophy of Planet of the Apes.

Full essay by by TheDebtocalypse is available here.

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Merry Christmas.

This is the third of the twelve days of CTRL-mas.

We're diving into one of my favourite AI academic reports on ROI this year from Wharton Business School.

Link to Full Report.

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Merry Christmas and happy Boxing Day.

This is the Boxing Day episode and the second of the twelve days of CTRL-mas.

We're diving into the world of plastic today. This is part speculative fiction, part deep research into an interesting environmental topic about plastic pollution and the magical solution to it which comes at a potentially enormous risk.

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Merry Christmas.

This is the Christmas Day episode and the first of the twelve days of CTRL-mas.

We're diving into one of my favourite topics, which is how AI gives us a lens to understand our own minds even better.

For Christmas, I'm excited to try something a bit different...

On the 1st day of Christmas, this podcast gave to me....

A new episode every day during Christmas.

With essays.

And infographics

... enjoy

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9th episode of the "New Tab" mini-series. I discuss the importance of effective communication and storytelling, in a world where generative AI has the ability to produce an infinite amount of content and material, and the signal-to-noise ratio is the worst it's ever been.

8th episode of the "New Tab" mini-series. In a Brave New World, soma is the drug which controls the masses through pure pleasure and joy. AI slop is digital soma.

7th episode of the "New Tab" mini-series. When we fixed hallucinations, we also broke something else. We stopped AI being so sycophantic. And we don't like it when our AI stops being so nice to us.

6th episode of the "New Tab" mini-series. We're not ready for when AI thinks for a REALLY long time.

5th episode of the "New Tab" mini-series. The metaverse is due a resurgence... but not quite as you remember it. We're all going to use the metaverse, when we're old.