Jon Howard

Purveyor of product creativity, strategy, machine learning, data science, generative AI, metaverse & game making. TEDx speaker, MIF, Digital Art & BBC Exec

[Jon Howard @swingpants]

"a significant investment in BBC Bitesize to turn it from a really brilliant, trusted digital textbook, to a much more personalised learning platform” https://t.co/AXC0GI6JQb #bitesize #AI

[Jon Howard @swingpants]

Blog Post: The Future of AI and Education. What are the key facets of learning for the class of 2035? Adaptive Learning, Auto-Grading and AI Tutors... https://t.co/0oxdYLGiJe

[Jon Howard @swingpants]

@NatashaHodgson My TV was just on ch4 Christmas Brunch when your face popped up as 'appearing next week'. Up & up - congrats on the success, well deserved!!! ...have a Merry Christmas!

[Jon Howard @swingpants]

Sam Altman sacked! 🤔 "...a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities" #openai https://t.co/DEMWiBzXXg

[Lucy Carlton-Walker @LibrariesLucy]

Fascinating to hear from @swingpants about AI & its use as a tool to amplify what we do rather then replace:

> Harnessing the power of data
> Data informed insights
> Optimise
> Accessibility
> Process, generate & curate
> Enlighten & inspires

@ASCELUK
#ASCELWOW23

[ASCEL @ASCELUK]

Ask AI for an image of a librarian with 20:20 vision = person with glasses. Ask for a person in a room with books = no glasses. Seems Librarian stereotypes are tech-resistant (could we have guessed? 😂) @swingpants making us laugh whilst we learn about AI potential #ASCELwow23

[Jon Howard @swingpants]

Disney Imagineering have produced a robot with charm..."our robots need to strut, prance, sneak, trot or meander to convey the emotion that we need them to" https://t.co/QS4LoY9lCz

[Dimitris Papailiopoulos @DimitrisPapail]

GPT-4 "discovered" the same sorting algorithm as AlphaDev by removing "mov S P".

No RL needed. Can I publish this on nature?

here are the prompts I used https://t.co/FWAsE81lyq
(excuse my idiotic typos, but gpt4 doesn't mind anyways)

[Thomas Reis @peakaustria]

"No piece of art has ever emotionally affected me the way this robot arm piece has. It's programmed to try to contain the hydraulic fluid that’s constantly leaking out and required to keep itself running...if too much escapes, it will die so it's desperately trying to pull it back to continue to fight for another day. Saddest part is they gave the robot the ability to do these 'happy dances' to spectators. When the project was first launched it danced around spending most of its time interacting with the crowd since it could quickly pull back the small spillage. Many years later... (as you see it now in the video) it looks tired and hopeless as there isn't enough time to dance anymore.. It now only has enough time to try to keep itself alive as the amount of leaked hydraulic fluid became unmanageable as the spill grew over time. Living its last days in a never-ending cycle between sustaining life and simultaneously bleeding out... (Figuratively and literally as its hydraulic fluid was purposefully made to look like it's actual blood).
"The robot arm finally ran out of hydraulic fluid in 2019, slowly came to a halt and died - And I am now tearing up over a friggin robot arm 😭 It was programmed to live out this fate and no matter what it did or how hard it tried, there was no escaping it. Spectators watched as it slowly bled out until the day that it ceased to move forever. Saying that 'this resonates' doesn't even do it justice imo. Created by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, they named the piece, 'Can't Help Myself'. What a masterpiece. What a message."
Extended interpretations: the hydraulic fluid in relation to how we kill ourselves both mentally and physically for money just in an attempt to sustain life, how the system is set up for us to fail on purpose to essentially enslave us and to steal the best years of our lives to play the game that the richest people of the world have designed. How this robs us of our happiness, passion and our inner peace. How we are slowly drowning with more responsibilities, with more expected of us, less rewarding pay-offs and less free time to enjoy ourselves with as the years go by. How there's really no escaping the system and that we were destined at birth to follow a pretty specific path that was already laid out before us. How we can give and give and give and how easily we can be forgotten after we've gone.. How we are loved and respected when we are valuable, then one day we aren't any longer and we become a burden...and how our young, free-caring spirit gets stolen from us as we get churned out of the broken system that we are trapped inside of. Can also be seen to represent the human life cycle and the fact that none of us make it out of this world alive. But also can act as a reminder to allow yourself to heal, rest and love with all of your heart. That the endless chase for 'more' isn't necessary in finding your own inner happiness.”
- James Kricked Parr
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[Jon Howard @swingpants]

@jaffathecake Your only difference is sans glasses!

[Jon Howard @swingpants]

New #Ofcom report defines four principles on the way online life affects mental health:
1: We no longer go online – we are online
2: Online spaces can nourish us
3: Needs of the user
4: We are all learning as we go

https://t.co/qy4bT0yAYq #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

[Jon Howard @swingpants]

@wwwicked For reference: The Igor Naming Guide itself. https://t.co/YTRzHu7YYd

[Jon Howard @swingpants]

Blog post: Are robots coming to rule our roadmaps? A look at how GPT4 could be used now to augment the product management process.
Be careful what you wish for...

https://t.co/BAICmJYUus

#GPT4 #ChatGPT #ProductManagement #AI #LargeLanguageModels

[Jon Howard @swingpants]

@wwwicked Absolutely. I've been able to create tools of amazing quality within minutes - mind-blowing stuff. But, even apart from the ethical and legal concerns, the accuracy and legitimacy of the results needs to be policed closely. Good for experimenting with but needs human-in-the-loop

[Alex Banks @thealexbanks]

OpenAI released plugins for ChatGPT.

It will change the future of humanity.

Here's how they work and why this is so important:

[Jon Howard @swingpants]

#GPT4 paper is not transparent or open in any meaningful way: https://t.co/KKZZKui0HL

[Jon Howard @swingpants]

#GPT4 has been launched: https://t.co/mgMwvIyf3Y

[Jon Howard @swingpants]

Simon Wardley's mapping of the Large Language Model domain.

#WorkinProgress #LLM #WardleyMap

[Simon Wardley @swardley]

Very early map of the LLM space, about 90 mins spent on this ... it'll need 6 hrs more to create an effective map.

Week after next, starting 13th
Monday - 09:30 to 11:30 GMT
Tuesday - 09:30 to 11:30 GMT
Wednesday - 09:30 to 11:30 GMT

Anyone want to map it? All on zoom.

[Jon Howard @swingpants]

A massive spike in short story submissions, mainly from AI generated sources, causes Sci-Fi mag to pause its submissions process: https://t.co/gvBNfAQNxc
#AI #ChatGPT

[Jon Howard @swingpants]

Interesting evolution of search - Microsoft is integrating CHATGPT with Bing.
Announcements likely this week.

#chatgpt #bing

[Thomas Danielsen @Thomas_danielsn]

Major leak!! 🚨

Microsoft integrates ChatGPT in Bing.

This looks crazy!

See all the SCREENSHOTS in this thread 🧵👇

#chatgpt #ai #bing #microsoft #leak