A sweeping journey from humanity’s distant past to a possible future among the stars. The Future of Humanity is ambitious, speculative and full of ideas that make you wonder just how extraordinary our species might eventually become. Why I read it I’ve always been fascinated by the really big questions: where humanity came from, where…
The Thinking Machine tells the remarkable story of Nvidia and the AI revolution, but leaves the man at the centre of it all — Jensen Huang — frustratingly difficult to understand. Why I read it I’m currently on what I’m calling My AI Odyssey: trying to understand artificial intelligence properly, not just as a user…
A big, serious, slightly terrifying book about AI, power, and the problem of containment. Why I read it I’m currently on what I’m calling My AI Odyssey: trying to understand artificial intelligence properly, not just as a user of tools, but as someone who wants to think clearly about where this technology is going and…
PeteGPT started as a deliberately silly way to practise prompt engineering, but it quickly became a much broader Python learning project. Building it taught me how to work with the OpenAI API, manage Python environments and API keys, structure code with functions, store conversation state with lists and dictionaries, add variation with randomisation, and turn…