Do you talk to your AI assistant much? I mean, talk out loud, using speech mode for both input and output? I generally use voice when I’m asking a quick question, like what temperature to cook sausages in the oven, or why my boiler pressure has plummeted. At Meta, I worked on real time voice … Continue reading An AI conversation about Conversation
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Building Quantum Teapot: What I Learned From Watching People Get Lost in my AI Storyworld
When I released Quantum Teapot a few weeks ago, I invited friends, family, and a few adventurous strangers to test it. I wanted to see how people would navigate a multi-character AI storyworld, what patterns would emerge, and where my design choices would hold or break down. Over the past few weeks, I’ve collected some of their … Continue reading Building Quantum Teapot: What I Learned From Watching People Get Lost in my AI Storyworld
The Loop of One: AI and the Joy of Private Creativity
What if making something is just as valid when the only audience is you? We don’t usually think of creativity that way. For centuries, making has been tethered to sharing—paintings for galleries, scripts for producers, songs for listeners. But much of human creativity has always been private: a doodle in a margin, a tune hummed … Continue reading The Loop of One: AI and the Joy of Private Creativity
Horses for Courses
How to ride to the AI Frontier I fell off a horse called Cuddles when I was six and took this as a cosmic sign that I should never attempt equestrian pursuits again. So when I say that prompting AI models is like riding a horse, I'm speaking entirely metaphorically—though after two years of wrangling … Continue reading Horses for Courses
PROMPT: An experiment in storytelling with AI.
I was scrolling LinkedIn when I had an idea… After the release of Veo3 my social feeds, notably LinkedIn, were clogged not just with some amazing GenAI video clips, but also with the prompts used to generate them. There was a strange mix of formal technical instruction and evocative language, almost poetry, in these prompts. … Continue reading PROMPT: An experiment in storytelling with AI.
Welcome to The Context Maker
I've launched a Substack. I'll repost blogs here, but you can also subscribe and receive each post in an email weekly by using this link: https://substack.com/@japhetasher Fun challenge: Count how many times I use the word "context" in this post. It's my favourite word for a reason. From creating MTV's groundbreaking 'Liquid Television' to pioneering … Continue reading Welcome to The Context Maker
Polarity Reversal 