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ChatGBT helps me understand Andy Burnham's first policy statement as Prime Minister.
The news headlines tended to tell us more about their political leadings than the statement to the House.
As The Spectator saw it ‘Reviews of his debut yesterday are mixed, with most papers this morning focusing on his blaming of Brexit and Margaret Thatcher for Britain’s problems’.
I found myself turning to ChatGPT.
I couldn’t help noticing how the system had been programmed to be informative, but also to be indeed a very knowledgeable friend chatting with its pal.
This is what my new pal told me …
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This audio text replicates contents of a post on X by the American social influencer Jeff Bullas. Jeff has granted permission for me to present his material, which I believe addresses one of the urgent challenges of the AI world.
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Nine till ever. A tribute to Dolly Parton
This week every other news item was superseded by the news of the death of country superstar Dolly Parton
I learned how she wrote songs in consolation at tragic incidences in a rollercoaster of life. My friends will confirm that I am not easily disposed to visual displays of emotion. Maybe this tribute has something special in that respect.
Nine till ever. A tribute to Dolly Parton
ONE
Nine till ever, no eclipse
Goodby Dolly you’ll be missed
No more songs to listen to
Goodby Dolly we love you
Nine till ever, no eclipse
Goodby Dolly you’ll be missed
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I am continuing my apprenticeship learning to use ChatGPT. At the moment, my experiment demonstrates how with minimum experience it is possible to find the appropriate amount of information and dealing with some problem.
Today my problem was identifying a new local Business, which I believe to be some kind of music club.
My conversation with ChatGPT went something like the following, which I have slightly abbreviated.
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A discussion supported by ChatGBT and illustrating a practical search process.
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An important skill for the age of AI is developing skills at prompting AI agents. This audio note outlines some preliminary thoughts of my own, and an interesting publication on the topic.
First, a working definition. What do I mean by creative prompting?
Creative prompting is the process of obtaining powerful suggestions from an AI system through the prompts provided by an individual or group.
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This week, the United Kingdom discovered a new sporting heroine, in the European Games. Amy Hunt won four gold medals in an increasing blaze of publicity.
As the BBC enthused
Amy has never been afraid to choose the hard path. Undertaking an English Literature degree at Cambridge University, she was determined to prove - as she did in winning silver at last year's World Championships - that you can be "an academic badass and a track goddess"
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Wednesday 12 August 2026
Tonight the world will go dark. Light from the Sun will be blocked off for a few minutes.
Put simply, the orbit of the moon gets between the Sun and the Earth. This briefly blocks the light waves from the Sun.
I report how the spectacular event impacted on myself, on thousands of eclipse watchers around the northern hemisphere and on the BBC reporters following it.
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