The Machine Has No Yesterday

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On time, memory, and what large language models cannot do with either It started, as these things often do, with a podcast. I was listening to Orit Halpern on the BBC’s ‘In Our Time‘. She is an historian and self-declared cyberneticist, sharp on the politics of data. One of her comments caught my attention. She was talking about how computational …

Interdisciplinarity

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The theme of Week Two is close to my heart, as I am Visiting Professor at the Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning (IDEA CETL) at the University of Leeds. In 1985, I was also one of Procter & Gamble’s first General Managers leading a multinational team across Europe, which included multiple disciplines – marketing, finance, manufacturing, …