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Per Axbom smiling, against a forest backdrop, and holding up his hands to form a heart shape.

My tender heart and I

I'm in the process of preparing for open heart surgery. It's an elaborate procedure where I'll get a new

AI Trial and Evaluation Worksheet

Many people are telling me how their companies are running tests of AI tools. This in itself is not strange at all. It's

A small slice of Earth (North America and Europe) is used to train an AI system in a computer tower.

Generative AI can not generate its way out of prejudice

The concept of "generative" suggests that the tool can produce what it is asked to produce. In a study uncovering how stereotypical global

Illustration of four robot arms shaving, lathering, combing and hairdrying a man.

On Nielsen's ideas about generative UI for resolving accessibility

"Accessibility has failed as a way to make computers usable for disabled users." Thus begins a newsletter by Jakob Nielsen. And had it

ChatGPT 4 fails at solving a Captcha and progress is slow

An image of ChatGPT solving a captcha was spread far and wide recently. The most beautiful thing about the image is of course that it

EU AI Act timeline

There are many checkpoints for the EU AI Act to pass through before it becomes legislation and before the law is applicable for all types

AI Pooper Mode Request

I remember when the newsletter service Mailchimp and its monkey mascot had a tone-of-voice that was full of jokes and whimsiness. Many found this annoying

ChatGPT and Mad Hatter

It is a strange world we live in now, wherein the output of a computer perfectly following its programming can be said to be "

Explaining responsibility, impact and power in AI

I made this diagram as an explanatory model for showing the relationships between different actors when it comes to AI development and use. It gives

Video summary of the White House executive order on AI

I read the executive order on AI from the White House, wrote a summary and used an AI-powered video generator to create the appearance of

Benefits and risks of synthetic video and audio

In the one-minute video below I am speaking seven languages. In truth, I can speak two of those. None of the audio is actually me

Each part of the diagram is explained din the post under the heading Overview of bias in machine learning

Diagram: Bias in Machine Learning

Understand the stages of machine learning where bias can, and often will, contribute to harm.

A compose window on LinkedIn where Per has used variants of Unicode that display letters in illustrative fashions.

Don't fake bold and italic text with Unicode

I see more and more people faking bold and italic text on LinkedIn, and other social media, using Unicode characters. This is detrimental to accessibility,

Jakob Nielsen about IQ and usability

Attempts to classify people into intelligence categories has been going on for many hundreds of years, but none have perhaps proven as prevalent as the

Illustration of a politician at a podium, flanked by a big diaper and a half-naked bodybuilder drinking from a water bottle.

When Instagram was used for government communication

I'm confident that in the future it will be incomprehensible how elected politicians and governments decided that Instagram was the best place to