HeyJaredMark Pinsent's Mountain Rambles
Living in the French Pyrenees (hence the name), my Substack tends to focus on topics related to my professional interests (communications, marketing, geopolitics, business and technology). That said, I reserve the right to drift into other subjects.
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Humanoid robots (opens the original)
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Full disclosure: I’m not a fan of humanoid robots.I ran a poll on LinkedIn a week or two ago. With just 36 responses, it’s not representative, but 16% of people said that they love the idea of humanoid robots, 36% said they’re really not keen, and 47% are undecided.So let’s say that they’ve yet to capture the crowd’s approval.Subscribe nowDon’t get me wrong, robotics, in general, is great. It’s been around for decades, obviously, mainly in factories.
The modern diary (opens the original)
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My mum has all of her mother’s (my grandmother’s) diaries. Granny was incredibly disciplined about making daily entries for years, including throughout the second world war, and despite the fact that on many days nothing much happens, they’re an incredible piece of social history (she also diligently kept household accounts).There are some absolute gems in the diaries. My mum was the youngest of six adopted children, and has always had a slightly fractious relationship with the next oldest, A. H
The AI Creativity Level of Acceptance (ACLA) (opens the original)
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I came across what I thought was an excellent piece of academic work late last week:How GenAI Affects Creative Identity: A Qualitative Study Of Creative Students And TeachersIt’s a thesis created by three undergraduate students from the University of Umeå in Sweden: Allgardsson, Harley, and, umm, Pinsent.Yes, that’s right. In full disclosure, our son was part of the team that created the thesis as part of their final year studies. I may be a touch biased, but I do genuinely think it’s a great pi
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