AI, and aIl that Artifical Intelligence jazz Jan 25 2025March 2, 2025 I agree completely with Matt Jukes’s newslettered thoughts on AI completely, have seen it this way since attending a CloudCamp event last Autumn, ‘AI Antidote: Part 3’. The following is my take on it all, after some useful reading and chats this week. It’s not one large entity As ever, ‘naming things is hard’, and quick, catch-all shortcut (mis)labelling has led to confusion. To put it simply… AI is less like jam, more like hundreds and thousands.No 🫙🍓Yes 🍬🍭🍧🍡Lizzie Bruce That is, it’s not one solidified, or even corelated, mass – it is millions of sprinkles. Bots, tools, models. “Hacks” and shortcuts and calculators. Crunching data, applying commands, serving results – sometimes stat-based, prodded and prompted and chatted up. New term on the block To understand the term ‘AI’, which is very much with us now, it could be useful to think of it as you think of the term ‘apps’ – many, varied, doing different things for different purposes at different scales, and to very different levels of effectiveness. That’s not a direct like-for-like comparison by any means, but could help you get your head around the surface term. User-centred designers, let’s talk I’m gathering informed takes on AI in the UCD Freelancers Slack. Find out how to get listed in the Directory, to join the Slack chat.
