AI & Creativity: Reflections on Language, Authorship, and the Future of Art
Reading Time: 20 minutesA reflection on the Human and AI Creativity and Imitation Symposium held at Leeds University in June 2025.
Remembering The Forgotten Prisoners: What Peter Benenson’s Legacy Tells Us About Trolls, Fear, and Free Speech Today
May 28th 2025 Sixty-three years ago today, Peter Benenson cracked open the global conscience with an article in The Observer entitled The Forgotten Prisoners. He wrote, among other things, of two Portuguese students jailed for [...]
Art and AI: We Don’t Produce Slop, We Produce Chop
Reading Time: 4 minutesChatGPT is mainly built in Python. Fitting, then, that like a python it coils around you. But instead of constricting, it empowers.
Conversations with AI
Why should anyone care what AI has said to them? Why would you care what I talked to an AI about? As this amazing and, let’s not forget, still very recent phenomena gets normalised through [...]
If Socrates Feared Writing, What Would He Say About AI?
The Socratic method is the name we have for discussing things into a deeper understanding through lively and active debate, argument and reasoning with others. It's a teaching method that emphasises questioning, reframing, and challenging [...]
ChatGPT’s New Update o1-Preview: An Emotional Conversation on Internal Memes and Dreams
New Update Preview Thought for 33 seconds This is what the new ChatGPT displayed as it was processing my last request, even showing a very nuanced version of “what” it was thinking about. The new [...]
Do We Still Need to Learn English in the Age of AI?
Introduction In a world increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence (AI), the necessity of learning English is being questioned. While AI tools can translate and communicate across languages, there are critical reasons why learning English—and acquiring [...]
Do you Still Need to Study English now that we have AI?
Open Campus Lecture: Authenticity and Artificial Intelligence (AI) A demo lecture by Richard Pinner held at Sophia University's Yotsuya Campus on 02/08/24 11:30-12:15 This 45-minute lecture in English will look at the issues of Authenticity [...]
