When it comes to transparency in artificial intelligence (AI) there are different aspects to consider. One is understanding the reasoning process behind AI decisions and what data they use in that decision-making. Given that artificial neural networks are black boxes, that is a topic in itself, and will be the subject of another blog. This…
In August 2025 it was revealed in the press that a report produced by Deloitte for the Australian government contained several entirely fabricated citations to articles and books that do not exist, other than in the fevered hallucinations of generative AI. The report, costing taxpayers AU$439,000, was presumably not offered at a substantial discount to…
The 26th of August 2025 may end up being quite a significant day when the definitive history book of AI is published. I had written previously about the unresolved issue of copyright associated with the training of large language models (LLMs), which underlie the generative AI technologies like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and also the…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a major impact on the creative arts. This does not just apply to books and articles, but also to artistic images, music and video. Large language models (LLMs), the underlying basis of generative AI, are capable of writing a poem, a song or an essay, and generating an image, cartoon…
All generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity are based on artificial neural networks that are trained on huge amounts of data, such as text or images. The large language models (LLMs) that underlie this technology are voracious in their need to ingest training data in massive quantities. Some of the…
Much discussion about large language models (LLMs) is about their potential to automate tasks and jobs, and possibly replace entire industries such as graphic design and coding. While the hype in many cases exceeds the reality, there is another aspect of AI that needs to be considered: ethics. There are numerous examples of why the…