Diary Posts
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Contextual Scaffolding for AI Work
Transparency label: AI-assisted In an earlier post, I introduced the idea of “contextual systems engineering”. Building on that idea, we are developing a way to manage collaborative work with AI — especially where the goal of the collaboration is a knowledge-based product: for example a report, a competitive tender, an academic paper, or a policy…
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An emerging discipline?
Transparency label: AI-assisted In a recent post, I observed that LLMs are coming to be seen as like computer operating systems, with prompts being the new application programs and context the new user interface. Our precision content prompt pack is a good example of that thinking. The pack contains a set of prompts designed to…
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Context is the new user interface
Transparency label: Human-led How we guide AI not with buttons, but with words and context. When you use an AI like ChatGPT, there are no menus or toolbars. Instead, the way you interact – what you say, how you say it, and what you show it – is the interface. That’s what we mean by…
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ChatGPT can check facts
transparency label: Human-only Mike Caulfield has released what he calls a Deep Background GPT. It is an AI fact-checking tool, available to all as a completely free GPT. Mike says: I just released a (largely) non-hallucinating rigorous AI-based fact-checker that anyone can use for free. And I don’t say that lightly: I literally co-wrote the book on using…
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Terminology
transparency label: Human-only Terminology was a vexed topic in our recent discussion. It dawned on me that smarter people than us must have faced this problem too, and sure enough Perplexity took me to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US Department of Commerce. Their paper AI Use Taxonomy, a Human-Centered…
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Voice to meeting notes in 30 seconds
Transparency label: Human-only A nice little use case for AI. The Anapoly team met this morning to talk about progress, harmonise our thinking, and firm up the plan for the next few weeks. It brought home the value of face to face discussion, because two interesting new ideas popped out of some animated debate. When…
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Lab Framework updated
Substantial update to the Lab Framework, clarifying how we actually do labs!
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A new way of working
Transparency: AI-assisted (see justification below) A reflection on where I have got to after using ChatGPT and other AIs intensively for the past six weeks. In earlier times, my digital workspace was built around the usual office applications – Microsoft Office or Google Workspace, and their ilk. Now, it’s different. Microsoft is going down the path…