The ice cream problem
A friend of Anne Boden’s asked Meta’s new AI assistant, Muse, to get her some vanilla ice cream. It found some on Deliveroo and sent her a link so she could pay for it. Boden, who founded Starling Bank, tells the story in the FT this week, and she isn’t impressed. “That’s not an autonomous […]
The question behind the question
Someone asks how much they can afford to overpay on their mortgage. You look at their income and outgoings, work out what’s genuinely spare, and give them a figure along with how you got there. The arithmetic holds up. A decent spreadsheet would have produced the same number. According to the people who built the […]