Author: bonwag

When Inspiration Outlives the Artist

It’s been a great week for music fans who are slowly realising that death does not necessarily unbecome art.

There’s ‘new’ music from The Beatles, of course.

And although it’s been kinda leaked for years, the second, unreleased album from the great Kirsty MacColl has finally seen the light of day, after 40 years, thanks to the Streaming Gods. For someone who loved her forays into synth-rock and new-wave super-production, I’m a little chuffed.

Happy 29th Birthday, BONWAG

On this, the year that social media blew itself up (or more specifically, when Mr Musk decided to demonstrate the dangers of a centralised commercial share-space), I’m pleased to see the world snapping back to self-owned social – or POSSE, as it has been recently buzzworded.

This might be the year I get back to regular posting here. About Marketing, about Family, about Technology, about Dumb Stuff.

What were YOU doing at the age of 29?

Analogue Generative Artificial Intelligence

I haven’t seen this done, yet, but a brilliant introduction to the concept of generative AI is the well-known improv game One Word At A Time.

The idea of the game is simple, a team tells a story one word at a time. That’s it.

Which is roughly what Large Language Models are doing; just on a grander scale and with some secret sanity simulations built in.

In a group setting, try it. Give a team a prompt and see how easy it is to get close to a coherent answer.