Tag: artificial intelligence
‘Priorities for culture’: a pioneer Welsh Government strategy?
The Welsh Government’s just produced another document on culture. This one has the snappy title Priorities for culture. In case you’re interested, there are three priorities: ‘culture brings people together’, ‘celebrating Wales as a nation of culture’ and ‘culture is resilient and sustainable.’ I can already hear you thinking: ‘but two of these aren’t priorities, […]
Richard Sharp: a model man of power
There’s been a lot of talk lately about advances in AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning), based on the storing and analysis of vast reservoirs of online words (the so-called ‘large language model’). The publication of ChatGPT, which can respond in a conversational and explanatory way to natural language queries, has set teeth on […]
E.M. Forster invents the iPad
Years ago my friend C and I challenged each other to read, all the way through, a Classic Long Book. My challenge was Moby-Dick, and his was Bleak House. Whether C ever reached Melville’s majestic final line, ‘… and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago’, I […]