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Project Vend - the Consciousness Trap
I have written about Anthropic’s Project Vend as an example of how anthropocentric thinking obscures basic system design failures and re-presents them…
Jul 14
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Donald Farmer
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Project Vend - The Anthropomorphism Trap
In my previous post about Anthropic's Project Vend, I argued that the much-discussed failure of this experiment was primarily a system design issue…
Jul 7
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Project Vend - The Anthropomorphism Trap
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Anthropic's Project Vend - a failure of system design rather than AI
Anthropic's Project Vend deployed Claude Sonnet 3.7 as an autonomous shop manager for one month, granting it control over inventory, pricing, customer…
Jul 6
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Anthropic's Project Vend - a failure of system design rather than AI
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Writing for others
Over recent years, especially in business and technical fields, the conditions under which we write and read have been changed by language models and…
Jul 4
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Donald Farmer
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June 2025
The limits of presence: my work in AI and emotional care
It has been weeks since I posted here.
Jun 25
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Donald Farmer
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The limits of presence: my work in AI and emotional care
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April 2025
Spaces physical and digital
Our understanding of environment has changed in recent decades.
Apr 9
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Donald Farmer
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I just must write about this ...
In my last two newsletters I have written about how we reduce the quality of human intelligence when we compare it to artificial intelligence, and how…
Apr 3
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Donald Farmer
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March 2025
The over-quantified business
In my last post, I worried that we are in danger of artificializing our own intelligence and I said I would write more about how business, in the name…
Mar 29
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Donald Farmer
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The unquantifiable self
What I am not saying about AI and what I am trying to say
Mar 24
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Donald Farmer
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Precision and plausibility
Charles Babbage, drunken workmen and hallucinations
Mar 19
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Donald Farmer
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AI and performative productivity
You most likely know Grammarly as an advanced grammar guide and spell-checker; that’s certainly how I started using it and I think it’s the best on the…
Mar 17
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Donald Farmer
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AI thinking styles ... and the sheer frustration of putting up with this nonsense
I received a helpful letter from the UK government yesterday, listing out the “catchup” payments I need to make to be fully eligible for the state…
Mar 15
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AI thinking styles ... and the sheer frustration of putting up with this nonsense
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