Al Boley

Digital product expert. Ex-BBC & Channel 4. Transforming via tech. Media | Experimentation | Democracy | Crypto. Also, DOGS! Views all my own.

[Al Boley @alboley]

In a world of mainstream LLMs and Agential AI, why are things like @AmazonAlexa so dumb?
✅ "Alexa: set a reminder for [time]".
✅ "Alexa: what's the current time?"
🤡 "Alexa: how long until my reminder?"
💣 "Alexa: what's the gap between [current time] and [reminder time]?"

[Al Boley @alboley]

Making a 5 second AI video can use enough energy to run a microwave for an hour (~1kWh). Complex text responses from bigger LLMs often use more energy than AI image generation.
#ThinkOnThat
(Sources: MIT Tech Review: https://t.co/YE4ugg6fQf / @mat at https://t.co/rmTpqDpf1Y)

[Jana 👑 @JanaCryptoQueen]

CT people will someday realized that we're better all together, united.

I guess we took decentralization seriously on this matter...

[Al Boley @alboley]

Football highlight of the weekend on last night's @BBCMOTD Sunday... Danny Mills taking about Sunderland's Nicholas Brobby: "Everyone loves Mister Brobby"!
🤣⚽😍🤪
@BBCSport

[Al Boley @alboley]

Careful out there friends.

[mydogminton 🐕‍🦺🎶💲🇺🇦📺⚽🌈 @mydogminton]

Folks in stats, data science, audience dev, protect management, research... WATCH OUT! Last night I witnessed one of those rare White Pigeon events! 😬😲
#BlackSwan #Probability

[Al Boley @alboley]

Genuinely embarrassing that the Chancellor's budget announcement and subsequent responses have to be repeatedly interrupted by The Deputy Speaker because there's too much shouting and jeering by numerous MPs across parliament. FFS. Grow up.

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[Al Boley @alboley]

After a VERY long night I can say @google #Gemini is a mess when it comes to vibe coding. It's often wrong about goggles own APIs, can't iterate without making things up and won't check it's open choice properly until you identify the error yourself. #FFS #ai #Coding #VibeCoding

[Al Boley @alboley]

Hi @BBCiPlayer. Your search is awful. I can understand a couple of factors involved but it's not good enough to use. The "d" in the search is the first time the episode is visible in the results.

[Al Boley @alboley]

@GMB People worrying about an "AI GP" in the NHS app is ridiculous. Can't see how it would be any different to the NHS 111 symptom-checker in essence.

[Al Boley @alboley]

Heard great things about this from several people. Available NOW. 📖🥂

[Jane Crowther @janevgcrowther]

If you’re a book person and fancy a hot summer read, may I recommend #Gatsby?

Out TODAY

Order here:
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[Al Boley @alboley]

@DanTaylorWatt Feels like it should be solvable using multi-step, independent, AI engines manager by an AI agent.

[Al Boley @alboley]

@DanTaylorWatt Thought you may find this interesting (if you don't already follow him). I suspect it's solvable with linguistics; second guessing how AI might interpret the commands, like much of prompt engineering. Thoughts? https://t.co/z9eXc4MXGa

[Al Boley @alboley]

11 years ago in the Sunday Times "Culture"!

[Kristen Ruby @sparklingruby]

“The Office of International Intellectual Property Enforcement (IPE) represents the genius of America to the world.

Reflecting America’s imagination, intellectual property is the lifeblood of our economy.”

If IP is the lifeblood of our economy, why are our IP rights being removed?

If intellectual property is the lifeblood of our economy, and AI circumvented millions of Americans IP rights - wouldn’t that result in our economy crashing over time?

[Al Boley @alboley]

This is fun, if gimmicky.
https://t.co/me583xetCk
https://t.co/9Q6hwam22V

[Al Boley @alboley]

@GMB I'm skint but will happily pay a little more for milk & other UK farm produce to make things profitable. It's not a sustainable business for farmers if supermarkets race to the bottom.

[Mind @MindCharity]

Just leaving this here ❤️

cc: @FightThroughMH for this great post.

[Al Boley @alboley]

Hey @krakenfx. Your android app seems borked. Every time I try to close a margin position, it reverse to a reduced version with no options other than Limit and Market. Eg, no "stop loss" etc.

[Al Boley @alboley]

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The Dogmeister General.
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Count Dogula.