The company I work for closes down over Christmas/New Year and since I'm not going anywhere this year, I decided an at-home writing retreat might be fun You can find residential writing retreats in all sorts of amazing places, at any time of the year, covering time as short as a weekend, up to a …
I covered generative AI for music a while ago - looking at Suno, Udio, and Google Labs' MusicFX. As a quick memory refresher, MusicFX is the one that gave me two songs about a robot learning about AI, both in Japanese (there are links in the original post). Google Labs has another music tool, called …
Every few months, Ethan Mollick puts out a blog post on using AI - covering what's changed, what's useful, and what's confusing. If you haven't come across him, he's professor at Wharton, has a great blog called One Useful Thing, and wrote a book about living and working with AI, called Co-Intelligence. The latest of …
There's been a lot of chat and excitement about Gemini's new image generator - Nano Banana (where do they get these names from?). It's even available in Adobe Photoshop now. While it's a good image generator, its real strength is in editing. You can edit via text prompt and unlike previous models from various platforms, …
There are a lot of people getting a little antsy about other people (usually 'kids these days') using LLM and related tools to help them stop thinking. Frankly that doesn't sound like a great idea, and I don't think the issue is confined to 'the kids'. It's funny, since one of my favourite uses for …
Following on from the last post on Gemini Storybook, I took a look at RunwayML's Game World application. Think of it as a Choose Your Own Adventure Story, but with pictures. You need to be a RunwayML paid subscriber to be able to use the app, which is currently in beta. Note: if you're in …
Google's Gemini LLM has a new Gem, called Storybook. Before diving into that, Gems are custom versions of Gemini, designed to be particularly suited to one, small, given task or area. There's a career guide, a coding partner, a learning coach, and two experimental models; one for chess, and the other for stories. Jumping into …
The Stanford d-School is generally credited (along with IDEO) for creating Design Thinking as a discipline. This is where you think user-first, come up with ideas, try stuff, get feedback, learn as you go and iterate your way to a new solution. This is one of the best diagrams to illustrate design thinking, and is …
With everyone going on about agentic AI and automation, I thought it might be good to take a look at a tool that creates these linked-together actions that isn't super-technical and complex. Glif is basically agentic AI for beginners and I really like it. You get 10 free credits per day, but they don't roll …
This is a tool I've yet to find any practical use for, but it's just so much fun!! Skybox is really for people making video games as its initial audience, and ripples out from there. This is a text to image generator, except the images are 360 degree views of worlds. You generally start by …
AI for Squishy Humans 