Diary Posts
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Working Towards a Strategy
In the last few weeks, we’ve been thinking more clearly about how to describe what Anapoly AI Labs is for and how we intend to run it. The idea, from the start, was not to teach AI or to promote it, but to work out what it’s actually good for. Not in theory, but in…
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First lab note published
We’ve just posted our first lab note. It documents an internal experiment to refine the custom instructions we use with ChatGPT – what we expect from it, how it should respond, and how to keep it useful across different tasks. The aim is to define a persona for the AI assistant that is more consistent…
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Sense from confusion
Early in the process of developing Anapoly Online, our website, I asked ChatGPT to help me create a diary dashboard: a page acting as a central point for diary posts. Amongst other things, I wanted the page to let us select a tag and see only the posts thus tagged. I was unsure how to…
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The concept
Purpose: To model and investigate how non-technical people can make good use of general-purpose AI in their work, using experimentation to understand the strengths and limitations of current AI tools. Why does this matter? AI is now widely available, but there’s a credibility gap between hype and reality. Many people are unsure how to use…
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A pivot
Our initial idea, prompted by Kamil Banc’s writing on practical AI use, was to run a small, local club. Somewhere people like us could meet in person, experiment with ChatGPT, and see what we could actually do with it. A “non-threatening, friendly environment,” we called it at the time. But the concept developed, and the…
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Our stance
Stance: a way of thinking about something, especially expressed in a publicly stated opinion. We don’t claim to be AI experts. We’re practitioners exploring AI in real problems faced by professionals like us. We’re testing, documenting, and improving – in public. That’s our value.
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Initial assumptions
Having decided that the idea of an AI Club was worth pursuing, Dennis and I co-opted Ray into the initiative and set out its underlying assumptions.These are listed below. Assumption: there is a market for an AI Club amongst the local population of active and retired professionals, small business owners, and the like. These people…
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Exploring the idea with ChatGPT
Once Dennis and I had come up with the idea of a small, local AI club, I used ChatGPT to help me explore its possibilities. I explained the idea to the AI and began the chat by asking: Is there a market for such a club in Plymouth? The answer was a helpful analysis of…
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The idea
The idea for Anapoly AI Labs began with a newsletter. Kamil Banc wrote a thought-provoking piece on SubStack under the title “My Top 10 ChatGPT Features That Actually Matter At Work”. Early in the piece he wrote: “Most professionals approach ChatGPT like tourists at an all-you-can-eat buffet. They sample everything, master nothing, and walk away…