Londoner, digital technology enthusiast, generalist, humanist, protopist, left-of-centrist, not a futurist.
Peter Gasston
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I mention this because there's no reason that people with basic or no craft skills who use AI to bring their ideas to life won’t go on to develop those skills when they want more control. [2/2]
In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...
🚨I have a new book coming out October 20: Co-Existence!
It is about how we live & work with AIs that are sometimes (but not always) smarter than we are. And it has a cool cover.
You can pre-order: co-existence.ai
And here is a post with context: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/co-existen...
Peter Gasston
Ian Dunt
What’s actually worth doing to make a climate difference, according to data?
informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...
Ethan Mollick
My first web page was a template. After a while I wanted to customise it. So I learned how to view the source, and started tinkering. Eventually I understood HTML. I turned that into a 15-year career as a Web developer. [1/2]
“The acceleration of the past five years has been driven primarily by the ultra-fast-fashion business model pioneered by Shein and now followed by Temu and a growing number of imitators” but sure, data centres are the villains, not you.
A slide from my forthcoming presentation.
I had early access to Opus 4.8. Was impressed by it.
Here is Opus 4.8's one shot of "create a visually interesting shader that can run in twigl, make it like an infinite city of neo-gothic towers partially drowned in a stormy ocean with large waves" (this is all done with math, no premade assets)
“I can’t see a reason why you wouldn’t become interested in this stuff as a filmmaker. It’s so clearly a tool that might be up there with the camera. It’s going to be better than CGI. I’m excited, I hope you are.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Amazon MGM Studio greenlights three #AI series and launches GenAI Creators Fund, including access to a new software suite (‘Project Nara’) that combines AI and industry standard graphics tools.
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
