{"id":167,"date":"2025-06-12T12:15:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/?p=167"},"modified":"2025-06-26T08:26:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T07:26:33","slug":"why-ai-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/why-ai-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"A pivot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our initial idea, prompted by Kamil Banc\u2019s writing on practical AI use, was to run a small, local <em>club<\/em>. Somewhere people like us could meet in person, experiment with ChatGPT, and see what we could actually do with it. A &#8220;non-threatening, friendly environment,&#8221; we called it at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the concept developed, and the name seemed too cosy. A reference to Google Labs brought up the idea of a <em>lab<\/em> as a place to experiment with tools and ideas. This resonated, so we pivoted to thinking of ourselves not as conveners of a club but as facilitators of a sandbox: a safe space to try things out and see what works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our sandbox would be friendly and exploratory, but with a clear purpose: to model the use of general-purpose AI tools in everyday working environments. It would enable a number of labs, each modelling a different working situation, where we could try things out, see what helps and what doesn\u2019t, and work out how to get better results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence Anapoly AI Labs: one sandbox, many lab setups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>sandbox<\/em>: a safe play area where computer programs can be used without affecting the operational system; useful for experimenting with or testing new software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our initial idea, prompted by Kamil Banc\u2019s 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 &#8220;non-threatening, friendly environment,&#8221; we called it at the time. But the concept developed, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,97],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-concept","tag-sandbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}