Creating blog post graphics

Having kept a blog running since 1999 - amazingly - one thing that has always taken me way too much time is creating an image to go alongsid...

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Questions to aid IT adoption

As career practitioners, we need to stay updated with technology. Not only is this a PD requirement for being a CDANZ or CATE member under e...

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The ethics of LLMs

AI seems to be becoming more and more pervasive, but really 'AI' is the increased use of large language models, or LLMs, as a writin...

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A few interesting nuggets

In researching material for recent post ( here ) I found a few interesting nuggets (side-projects, if you will). The first tip I heard was a...

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Search and AI brain rot

A recent post was about some research on the lack of brain activity when using AI tools ( here ; Kosmyna et al., 2025; McBain, 2025). What I...

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AI does rot the brain

While I have written about AI before ( here ), there is research showing that regular use of LLM apps - such as Claude.ai and ChatGPT - appe...

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Are LLM apps the 'man behind the curtain'?

I have noticed more and more that people are using AI apps to put together text for novel situations. For example, a colleague of mine recen...

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The impact of AI

I have been wondering what the real risk is of artificial intelligence (AI) leaving many of us with insufficient work. AI itself is not my a...

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AI job applications

It appears that AI is helping people to apply for a LOT of jobs. In the UK, it seems that the job "market is awash in people applying f...

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The Emperor has no clothes & AI

While I am sure that AI platforms will improve, I was struck by a Guardian long read article last year where a journalist reported that, ...

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So what is slop then?

If you haven't heard of "slop" yet, I am sure you have seen it. Slop is AI generated crap, according to the 'founder' ...

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AI Hallucination

I have a burning question around the validity of AI. I have run my own tests ( here ) in ChatGPT, where I felt that the hype around AI was j...

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The use of AI in academic writing

As learners, when we bend our mind to understanding concepts, we all read widely. We begin broadly, then read more deeply and narrowly, draw...

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ChatGPT hype is only hype

After all the hype about ChatGPT, I decided to have a go at using it. To say I am deeply disappointed is an understatement.  OK. So I si...

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Daily robot chores

Jetsons Rosie, model XB-500 (Shaggy Dude, 7 April 2015) I watched a very interesting video by Fast Company which posed a question of peo...

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