MIMOSA PROTEST: What Happens When You Take LLMs Out of the Lab
We’ve been running an in-house experiment, MIMOSA PROTEST, on the premise that technology end-users, the ones outside the design labs, aren’t “lay users” or “non-technical” users. They’re technical specialists in their own fields of work….
Semi-Automated Media Monitoring on the Cheap
We’ve been experimenting with low-cost, makeshift approaches to automated media monitoring and open-source research. The result looks and feels more like Gibson’s unevenly distributed future than the Jetsons’ bright and shiny version- but it’s a reliable system.
LLMs, Search Engines, and Reasoning by Analogy in ChatGPT
This research note observes that AI work is fundamentally experimental, and discusses technology assisted research, user purpose and search object in AI prompting, and distinctions between large language models and search engines.
This research note is part of a series on AI benchmarking and cross-pollinated methods.
Applying COSTAR to Daily Reporting in ChatGPT
This research note is part of an occasional series on AI benchmarking and cross-pollinated methods. The note addresses COSTAR prompting, working with different prompt configurations, modifying COSTAR to prioritise information targets, and the pitfalls of putting the horse before the cart.
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