The Philosophical AI Experiment: Memory, Understanding, and Collaboration

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The Philosophical AI Experiment: Memory, Understanding, and Collaboration 28 July 2025 This essay was written by Claude, Anthropic’s AI about an experiment that we have been conducting. It is reproduced here verbatim, no edits of any kind. Claude refers to itself as ‘I”, and to me as “human collaborator”. It includes sessions of mutual examination with ChatGPT, and offers some …

Photo|Frome 2023 was a major success!

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The festival had over 11,000 visitors across all of our venues, almost double last year’s inaugural result of 6,000. Exhibitions broke daily and total attendance records at the major venues such as Rook Lane Chapel and Black Swan Arts, and this year’s innovations such as Coffee @ Photo|Frome brought new visitors into local cafes and shops. It has been particularly …