AI, Natural Language and Image Generation – A quick post…

AI, Natural Language and Image Generation – A quick post…

In the course of researching my second book, ‘Future Hackers‘, I’ve been playing with OpenAI’s ‘Dall E‘ image generator. It uses natural language input to create any image it’s instructed to create… Took around 30 seconds to generate these images: The instructions I gave it were ‘Create a brochure for an accountancy software company. Use […]

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New book ‘Future Hackers’ coming – But why?

New book ‘Future Hackers’ coming – But why?

The following text is lifted from the now accepted book proposal to Flint Publishing, a division of the History Press: a) Please write an elevator pitch for your book (in no more than 20 words): Future Hackers is the indispensable guide for curious business leaders to think differently and make informed future-ready choices in a […]

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Chess Boxing – Who knew!

Chess Boxing – Who knew!

As I continue to develop the ‘Future Hackers’ book, it means finding interesting examples to back up the concepts discussed. In the chapter about ‘Future of Work’, we’re partly looking at critical skills towards 2030. One key skill is ‘Cognitive Flexibility‘ – our capacity to quickly stop one task and move to another or even […]

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6. The ‘Future-Ready’ Keynote Series – “Science and Spirituality”.

6. The ‘Future-Ready’ Keynote Series – “Science and Spirituality”.

It’s worth remembering that modern Psychology is only around 130 years old. Yet spirituality (arguably) has its roots in Neanderthals choosing to bury their dead. We see pioneers at the edge of modern science discover the spiritualists and mystics were always right in their understanding of what it means to be human. Academics such as […]

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5. The ‘Future-Ready’ Keynote Series – “Questions and Answers”.

5. The ‘Future-Ready’ Keynote Series – “Questions and Answers”.

‘How come time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana?‘ – It’s a fun question used in linguistics, but also as part of some Turing tests to establish if machines exhibit intelligent behaviour. Computer scientists aren’t aligned about when machines could reach human-level intelligence. Some forecast 2030, others, 2100. It’ll only be […]

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