All tagged artificial intelligence

Is AI Search the end of click-bait?

So, what happens to SEO when the system ignores titles and descriptions and evaluates content instead? Well, the SEO tactics we’ve relied on - stuffing keywords, optimising headlines, crafting meta copy - matter a lot less. If a page claims to have an answer but doesn’t actually deliver, the AI will skip it.

Focus on Now, Not Next.

what’s the right approach? In a world where technology is adapting and evolving at an incredible rate, what’s the sense in a 5-year plan? Rather than spending time trying to predict the future you can instead re-focus on what’s important and what is now.

Analogue Sheep : Vol 6 : Mismemories

The house hadn’t changed. Not really. The white paint had flaked in places, the gate leaned, the mailbox hung open like a broken jaw—but it was still the same two-bedroom home perched at the end of the gravel lane. Still the wind-chime, dulled brass now, still the hedges grown wild around the porch. It was her. She was the one that had changed.

Off-the-Shelf Doesn’t Fit. This is Software Democracy.

Stop me if you think that you’ve heard this one before… It’s the next “app to end all apps”, the next finance system that will handle your project invoicing woes, the team sharing tool that will mean no-one misses those last-minute client requests, or the CRM giant that offers infinite customisations and integrations to cater for your every process. All for the very reasonable monthly fee of £ with an initial “mobilisation” phase of £££.

Let People Like Things. (Even AI)

I always remember being confused that when a particular band got popular, the kids who were into them before anyone else would completely lose interest - in the music that they had spent the best part of a last term hyping up to everyone else.

Red Pills

No, this isn’t some adolescence-related rant, I’m talking about choosing to learn things that you can’t un-learn about making a decision that you may come to regret but not knowing that until it’s too late.

PatBot - How to Trust Your Local AI

So how do we start to feel comfortable? How do we start to “trust” AI and / or the AI systems that are out there? We have to try to understand how they work and how they can work for us, and ideally, we can do this in fairly short order and with a low budget.

Good Vibes Only - The tools are ready, are you?

Vibe coding is essentially asking an LLM to give you the code to build something by simply describing what it should do, rather than inputting any line of code. The ability to open up software development to literally anyone with an idea and the knowledge of how it might be built. Importantly, and as I mentioned before not all applications should be built, and not jut “anybody” should be building these things.

Agentic AI in 2006

I built my first “Agent” in 2006. of course, 19 years ago we weren’t calling them “Agents” and there wasn’t a sniff of “AI”, but there was one thing that remains universally valuable. The vision to automate a process and the tools with which to build something capable of automating that process.

Adventures in AI : Short stories

Using ChatGPT 3.5, I've crafted outlines for three intriguing stories, sharing only their titles and synopses. Though these outlines are rough, they mark the beginning of an exciting exploration into the fusion of technology and imagination.

Human imperfection - Saving us from the machines

Doesn't sound much like the introduction to The Terminator, The Matrix or any other sci-fi dystopia, but listen to Elon Musk or the late Stephen Hawking discuss "the singularity" and it seems like these low-level activities would be a precursor to more dangerous and broader leaps that will eventually lead to technological servitude.

Open All Hours - Momentary [super] markets

There is an entire industry dedicated to tracking, influencing and predicting these trends. So, if some of the brightest minds [and computer algorithms] can be brought together to maintain one of the most profitable sectors across the business world, what could they do for the supermarket waste problem?