Alex Gowan-Webster

Give GPT-4o the personality of Marvin you cowards

@molly0xFFF I often think a lot of this is a very insular discourse, and what people are often saying is "I miss when the Web was a weird, in the know thing" When parents (of millenials) and non technical people became much more present mostly thanks to Facebook things began to change.

If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

@whitep4nth3r Bose QC35s (think they're 45s now) are the only pads that don't get sore with my big glasses after a while.

I had a great day at @ukmcg #MuseTech23 on Friday. It made me hopeful about how we could have a more mindful and thoughtful internet without a crazed need to put everything online all of the time. I've written about it in the @cog_design journal here: cogdesign.com/journal/a-more…

Fascinating ideas in this talk from @ukglo thinking long term with data and how we share and maintain information, software and tools without relying on 4 big companies. #MuseTech23

Our Head of Technology @agw62 is at the @ukmcg conference today. Here he is catching up with ex-Cog team member and MCG committee member @bankes_ed #MuseTech23

In the past 6 moths, we've launched sites for @lsqtheatre @graeae @rxtheatre @Biennial @roalddahlmuseum @sohotheatre. Imagine how proud you would be to have project-managed those. Do just that as our new 'Website Delivery Manager'. Details: cogdesign.com/journal

Our July Cog Night was the excellent A Playlist for the Revolution @bushtheatre @agw62 wrote our review / @hi_timalexander did this charming illustration. Both featured in our monthly Cultural Calendar. Read the review and sign-up via our site: cogdesign.com/journal/

This was a fascinating session... it shifted my perceptions in a good way.

I recently did an internal Breakfast Briefing at Cog about ChatGPT, Large Language Models, and image generation AI. I've now written it up for our website. Thinking about how we and our clients might use this new technology 🤓 cogdesign.com/journal/should…

@RobinComms Just so eager to please! I've also found myself in a few loops where it's got things wrong but just keeps tweaking the wrong answer.

@agw62 Agreed... What is surprising me is the way Bard outright lies... So in this answer, Bard first confirmed it can access the data linked (it can't), and then made up seating areas in a theatre that don't exist

Google Bard is wild - I'm doing an experiment to analyse some data, and the way it is just completely fabricating answers... 🤯

@RobinComms I've found chat gpt 3.5 or 4 more useful for writing complex queries for me than actually giving it a lot of data. Haven't tried it with Bard yet though.

The linked data does not contain any of these fields

I don’t believe in an interventionist God But I know, darling, that you do

@magicroundabout Very cool! I've found it good for remembering obscure syntax and the like. But for now at least you still need the big conceptual understanding.

@josephmbates in terms of artform specific the data just says "music" I haven't dug into classical or not but all artforms have got a share of the increase overall.

@josephmbates Hey Joe, I had a play trying to get an overview: datastudio.google.com/reporting/1d47… in terms of your q - compared to 2022 (final year of the previous round) - more on average and more overall but lower median as there are more orgs and more small new orgs. Data still being worked on

@RobinComms ah snap was just doing something similar with an old sheet I had - datastudio.google.com/reporting/1d47… in the spirit of sharing

In case it's helpful - my #NPO data comparison... Who appears at first to be new entrants, or to have exited the portfolio. All to be treated with caution. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

We're looking for a new digital project manager. Work with some of the UK's most interesting, important and fun arts organisations. Problem solving, knot unpicking, solution providing work on websites. Around £27K but happy to talk. cogdesign.com/journal/hiring…

"Lots of funders want the shiny box - not the discovery and thinking" - great to hear thoughtful approaches to digital tools and systems being discussed #tlcc2022 @kuums and Matt Kirby @Sadlers_Wells

Looking forward to learning lots about the new #a11y features in TNEW and Tessitura v16 and much more over the next few days #tlcc2022 @cog_design