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September 20, 2023
The story of how and why I built an entire pixel-based virtual world in Gather that the Tethix team now uses as our office and learning playground.
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September 14, 2023
How will your day-to-day practice change if your organization decides to embrace responsible firekeeping and install the Tethix ETHOS™ app? An exploration for the Tethix blog on how we can challenge agile firefighting by embodying our ETHOS.
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September 5, 2023 · Reading time: 12 min
I know, I know, the title of this post is atrociously click-baity. But if we allow Big Tech to get away with making outrageous claims about how their technology is saving humanity and release software that hallucinates, I hope you can forgive me for using the same tactic to bring up an important ...Read more
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July 25, 2023 · Reading time: 4 min
Updating a blog in 2023 might seem like an outdated concept, with everyone jumping on Substack, writing LinkedIn posts, and looking for a worthy Twitter replacement. But as a firm believer in owning your content, I decided to rethink this blog and the type of content I publish on here.
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July 18, 2023 · Reading time: 3 min
I’m probably not alone in having a bit of an existential crisis as I see generative AI convincingly imitate human skills. Sure, you can argue that these AI models are just reshuffling words and pixels and other bits of language, but a lot of the work humans do can be described in similar ways. Th...Read more
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July 13, 2023 · Reading time: 10 min
We seem to have an affinity towards the belief that we can influence the world through spells, prayers, incantations, affirmations. And now digital oracles have emerged on our screens that we can bend to our will through spells that have been rebranded as prompts. We call the digital oracles arti...Read more
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June 23, 2023
As part of a series of profiles on ClimateAction.tech (CAT) volunteers, I answered a couple of questions on climate action and related topics for the CAT blog.
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June 20, 2023 · Reading time: 8 min
It’s great to see people talking about responsibility and AI in the same sentence. But the phrase “responsible AI” is really starting to bother me. It implies that responsibility is somehow a feature of machine learning models. It shifts our attention away from activities where humans should be t...Read more
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June 6, 2023 · Reading time: 6 min
Did you see Apple’s demo of their fancy ski goggles Vision Pro headset? Technically impressive, for sure, yet somehow it assumes most people will be using it alone in their unrealistically spacious and tidy apartments (or willing to look like robots when interacting with their own kids). Yes, the...Read more
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May 31, 2023 · Reading time: 8 min
If you visit any news or social media website, you’ll likely stumble upon articles about ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Opinion pieces, interviews with experts, latest and greatest prompting tips… Among all the buzz and noise, it can be hard to find quality resources to und...Read more
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May 24, 2023 · Reading time: 4 min
I fell in love with the Internet in the 90ies when I discovered I could use it to talk to people from all over the world. As I started building and exploring new worlds in Second Life in 2007, I imagined a future where we can all build experiences that bring us closer together and help us learn m...Read more
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April 5, 2022
The first journey in the Tethix Learning Archipelago is now complete with crews wrapping up the tech ethics challenge in the Harbour of Shared Reflection.
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