I’m taking a five-day break between conferences to catch up with my good friends Paul and Brenda, walking in the Mournes. Yesterday, it rained, and the Mourne Mountains were swathed in clouds. The forecast warned of wind strengths that would make walking impossible, and even with the best equipment, attempting anything more ambitious than a […]
So, Monday and Tuesday of this week were devoted to the first edition of the Knowledge Summit in Dublin, with a strong AI theme, a pattern we saw last year at KM World. It was held at Trinity College Dublin, and I could visit the old library, pictured to the left, along with the Book of […]
The summer of 2012 was crucial in my thesis – I had finished my theoretical framework and a couple of chapters. I was about to tackle the most grounded part of my research: wading through a lake of approximately 40,000 bits of broken pottery. The purpose was to make sense of that material to understand […]
One of the broader issues, and I am by no means the first person to call this out, of the way people talk and, by implication, think about AI is anthropomorphic. This is problematic on many levels, including how it frames the issue. The reality is that AI is a set of algorithms and energy-hungry […]
This is the opening post in a short series looking at AI, which, while most undoubtedly artificial, is not intelligent and can never be, to get my cards on the table. I flagged up this subject in the Twelfetide series, where I raised several issues and a particular concern: an invitation to an undefined future […]
The news started to trickle in last night that Larry had died over the weekend. Thereafter I found myself waking up frequently with a new memory of one of the founders of the field of knowledge management, although he never liked the term. For those now familiar one of the strengths of KM is that […]
I can’t remember the exact context but in a recent online session, I ended up in a brief discussion with someone on the nature of improvisation. My interlocutor made the point that improvisation doesn’t just happen, it requires a lot of preparation, practice and perseverance to get to the point where something can appear to […]
As promised I did try and get all of this into a process map last night while getting through the last three episodes of The English (worth watching and the linked review is a good summary). One of the reasons for that is that the type of system I am describing pretty much exemplifies what I […]
Yesterday in, the space between exercises I was chatting with a research nurse about patient record keeping. In the process of that discussion, we started to talk about effective communication about a patient’s condition and she made the point that a simple story can convey a lot of meaning, and that meaning is often lost […]
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