Next month I’ll be tutoring an Arvon Writing Week w/ Tanya Shadrick + guest Malachy Tallack. There are a few places left if you'd like to join us in Yorkshire for five days of writing non-fiction through the theme of water. 27 Nov–2 Dec: arvon.org/writing-course…

Tech bros say AI will create 'winners and losers' as if it's out of everyone's hands, & up to govts to mop up the consequences. I think that's a dangerous story to believe. AI creates opportunities and dangers. How they play out, and to whom, is up to us. ft.com/content/79f66e…

“The self is a landscape in motion, after all”

Miranda Ward writing beautifully on May and the light and promise and time.

open.substack.com/pub/mirandawar…

'The explanations have to be wrong, because if their explanations were always right, you could just replace the black box with the explanations.'
Cynthia Rudin is trying to make machine learning models show their working:

quantamagazine.org/cynthia-rudin-…

The ever delightful Craig Mod in his latest Roden newsletter on earning trust, purpose and 'hard won pages'.

craigmod.com/roden/080/

The median score for ordinary businesses who have been through the B Corp assessment is 50.9. So we couldn't be more proud of our score of 114.5! 🎉

Read more about our story of becoming a B Corp in BUSINESS MONDAYS.: businessmondays.co.uk/torchbox-becom…

#bcorp B Lab

I've published a book on issues with generative AI for work:

'The Intelligence Illusion: a practical guide to the business risks of Generative AI'

illusion.baldurbjarnason.com

It's written for a non-technical audience and goes over what generative AI is, risks, and recommendations

'everything, in the end, is on its way to freemium. The right place to draw the line will and should differ based on whether a product is niche or scaled, and on the cost structure of the content producer'
stratechery.com/2023/the-unifi…

Here's Robin Sloan making weird and wonderful things, as usual: ooo.ghostbows.ooo/story/

I just published 'Why I wrote The Intelligence Illusion—a book on the risks of generative AI (available now)' baldurbjarnason.com/2023/why-i-wro…

If publishers and people who run imprints want an example of how to reinforce your ‘brand’ - your editorial taste, your successes and what you stand for - learn from Bluemoose Books

Art & literature are messy, odd, weird. And commerce is an awkward bedfellow. When commerce is given power (usually money) it tends towards removing art from the process. Modern AI is no different.

On the perfect mediocrity of ‘algogen’ from Baldur Bjarnason

baldurbjarnason.com/2023/ai-algoge…

I’m (very) not fond of marketing myself professionally or formal networking.

But I’ve found if I think of activities like these as charging up the serendipity batteries, it makes much more sense to me.

I’m (very) not fond of marketing myself professionally or formal networking.

But I’ve found if I think of activities like these as charging up the serendipity batteries, it makes much more sense to me.