26th November 2025
I’ve avoided talking about ‘Artificial’ ‘Intelligence’ (unless you count the rant on the licenses page, which you actively have to hover over to read). This is mostly down to not really having much to say on the matter publicly. That is most definitely not because I am in favour of this category of programme, but more because, well what actually is AI?
This fantastic article puts into words what has been floating around my head a lot recently; namely that there is no real definition of what “‘artifical’ ‘intelligence’” is. How can we possibly have a solid discussion about something that seems to be forced upon our lives quite so much as it is, without actually even knowing what “it” is? What programmes are we counting under this banner? We need clarity foremost, and that will form the first part of my article.
God knows it’s an awful name for it too - it being neither artificial (as it’s all stolen data at the end of the day) nor intelligent (you really need an explaination of that one‽).
I also felt a bit sheepish being the trillionth person to write an article about ‘artificial’ ‘intelligence’ (I really must stop putting passive-agressive inverted commas around those words, but they feel dirty, like they might infect the rest of my sentence otherwise). But the way I see things, there’s only one way this is going to go. And I need something to back me up when I say “told you so” if anything else!
Consider yourself, dear reader, thoroughly warned of the coming storm.