https://kookaburraadvies.nl/ Independent essays on AI, culture, work and power by Kai Bergin in Amsterdam. en-GB https://kookaburraadvies.nl/cybernetics-and-self-improving-systems/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/cybernetics-and-self-improving-systems/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:32:00 GMT To say it’s an interesting time to work in and study technology is a gross understatement. https://kookaburraadvies.nl/ai-can-you-art-2026/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/ai-can-you-art-2026/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Explore AI art in 2026 through a visual index of artists, artworks, galleries, museums and exhibitions curated by Kai Bergin. https://kookaburraadvies.nl/power-networks-compute-and-capital/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/power-networks-compute-and-capital/ Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:30:00 GMT Over the last few weeks I’ve been busy experimenting with using AI coding tools (for everything except coding), studying Peter Haff’s concept of the “technosphere” and leaning into a new idea that’s been slowly forming… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/book-in-progress/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/book-in-progress/ Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:26:51 GMT Book in progressSince late last year I've gradually been putting together small chunks of an AI book - in - progress. It's a great exercise in ordering my thoughts and it acts as a focus point in a sector that is… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/music-and-the-machine/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/music-and-the-machine/ Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:52:10 GMT As a regular person, working a white-color office job, pushing zero’s and ones back and forth on a screen (at varying tempos and mostly powered by overpriced coffee) I don't expect to have many “wow” moments in a day;… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/ai-romance/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/ai-romance/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 07:13:31 GMT It’s early morning during the Dutch school holidays. Most of the country has migrated south to recharge and prepare for the long grey winter. My summer has been a mix of early-morning writing, work, mountain hikes,… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/the-internet-is-dead-is-ai-to-blame/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/the-internet-is-dead-is-ai-to-blame/ Sun, 15 Jun 2025 22:26:33 GMT I write, work, and think about technology far more often than is healthy for a human being. The plus side is that I’m fortunate enough to have a job/hobby that stimulates my brain and is a constant source of… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/help-im-learning-about-learning/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/help-im-learning-about-learning/ Sun, 08 Jun 2025 15:01:55 GMT If there’s one thing I love doing, its learning. When everything in the fatty grey lump of tissue, that I lovingly call my brain, is working as it should, and the optimal level of caffeine has been added, I can happily… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/what-is-intelligence-who-are-dunning-and-kruger-and-what-do-they-have-to-do-with-ai/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/what-is-intelligence-who-are-dunning-and-kruger-and-what-do-they-have-to-do-with-ai/ Wed, 07 May 2025 19:34:13 GMT It's a lazy Wednesday night in Amsterdam, work is done, I’ve finished reading my latest book, couldn’t be bothered with scales on the piano and don’t particularly feel like couching the latest TV series with a bag of… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/make-more-mistakes/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/make-more-mistakes/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:02:16 GMT Ever made a huge mistake in your life? I’m not talking about those regular day to day examples, where we forget to look in our agenda in the morning, or we skip taking bread out of the freezer. I’m also not talking… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/world-earth-day-2025/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/world-earth-day-2025/ Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:24:45 GMT Every year on April 22nd we celebrate world earth day. A moment of appreciation for the amazing planet we live on, kind of cool right ? Well sort of, this year it became a day of introspection, insight and critical… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/copyright-and-ai-generated-content/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/copyright-and-ai-generated-content/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:01:04 GMT This week has seen an unprecedented acceleration in the field of artificial intelligence and its commercial applications. After a few (relatively) uneventful months everything is moving and changing again at an… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/ai-safety-navigating-the-risks-and-the-massive-blind-spot-no-one-is-talking-about/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/ai-safety-navigating-the-risks-and-the-massive-blind-spot-no-one-is-talking-about/ Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:59:35 GMT Artificial intelligence, for all its promises, is a double-edged sword. We’re not just building machines that can generate poetry or recommend movies — we’re creating systems that influence economies, healthcare,… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/the-technology-and-productivity-puzzle/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/the-technology-and-productivity-puzzle/ Fri, 07 Mar 2025 07:55:43 GMT Every day I work with the broken promises of technology. My first years of working in the tech sector I envisioned cutting edge software liberating screen-bound lifeless husks of human beings. I genuinely believed that… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/o3-mini-release-prompting-for-reasoning-models-guide/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/o3-mini-release-prompting-for-reasoning-models-guide/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 08:04:08 GMT So It’s official, the first iteration of OpenAI’s o3 reasoning model, o3-mini, has been released into the wild, and wow it is very impressive. Here are some key statistics from the official system card. (by the way,… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/74/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/74/ Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:04:05 GMT My absolute favourite AI text to video and image to video service is (MiniMax) Hailuo AI. As with all the AI video services at the moment it has many issues, but for my money this team’s models are the ones that I have… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/ai-can-you-art/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/ai-can-you-art/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:45:10 GMT Alkan Avcıoğlu Symphony №1 in D Major, Op. 3, Presto Convergence. Overpopulated Symphonies (2023) This is going to be a long list of links, some images and more questions than answers. Apologies in advance: Some of the… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/entropy-parrots-and-probability/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/entropy-parrots-and-probability/ Sun, 26 Jan 2025 08:05:13 GMT Anyone that has used a language model like ChatGPT has been a witness to both game changing technology and multiple technical and functional failures, disappointing moments where the intelligent tech of the future… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/the-inevitability-of-bias-from-artificial-intelligence-to-the-human-brain/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/the-inevitability-of-bias-from-artificial-intelligence-to-the-human-brain/ Thu, 12 Dec 2024 10:50:01 GMT Before the sparks and embers of the next generation of artificial intelligence ignite the mountains of data we generate and consume every day, I think it might be a good idea to raise a little awareness around the… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/decoding-ai-agents/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/decoding-ai-agents/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 12:09:52 GMT As we approach 2024, lets unravel some buzzwords you’ll hear constantly over the next 12 months. The star of the show: “AI Agents”. This is a simple dive into this complex yet fascinating part of the AI revolution.… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/the-dignity-of-data/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/the-dignity-of-data/ Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:23:36 GMT This is an article about a Q&A film I watched called “Data Dignity and AI”. Data in its rawest form is nebulous and meaningless, so how can we unify it with dignity, a word that implies human concepts like “Worth” and… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/microsoft-copilot-tips-writing/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/microsoft-copilot-tips-writing/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:00:55 GMT So let’s start working with CoPilot by waking up the great grandfather of this productivity suite: The Word Processor. MS word has come a long way since 1983, we now have generative AI! So assuming you have CoPilot,… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/transformers-explained-chapter-1/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/transformers-explained-chapter-1/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:00:30 GMT It’s a sad fact of life that computers just don’t understand human beings. For the last 70+ years we human beings have had to learn how to work around the computer’s limitations using tools like a mouse or a keyboard,… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/chapter-2-transformer-architecture-simplified-neural-networks/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/chapter-2-transformer-architecture-simplified-neural-networks/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 10:58:37 GMT Continuing on from my first article.. I’ll now try and explain the second motor of the transformer architecture: The neural network. The neural network tackles a huge challenge in our goal to create fluent and… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/github-copilot-ai-assisted-development/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/github-copilot-ai-assisted-development/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:20:53 GMT At least a year before ChatGPT launched and changed the way we work; one profession already had a head start on the rest of us and was busy using generative AI in their everyday work. Software Developers. GitHub… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/small-language-models/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/small-language-models/ Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:23:23 GMT Improving: Efficiency + Observability + Accessibility. In the realm of artificial intelligence language models have been at the forefront of innovation and the promise of next generation capabilities. Their ability to… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/explaining-chatgpt-to-a-trained-musician/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/explaining-chatgpt-to-a-trained-musician/ Tue, 26 Dec 2023 11:03:06 GMT When we communicate with each other, we are unconsciously looking back into the past: Our brains references past interactions with human language, and as our mouth begins to form words, our brain is a step ahead,… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/the-bigger-they-are-the-harder-they-fail/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/the-bigger-they-are-the-harder-they-fail/ Sun, 26 Mar 2023 11:14:41 GMT Dinner with friends on a Friday night is something everyone can relate to. For me, After a week of managing AI projects, juggling resources and monitoring progression, I’m ready to unwind, preferably with a glass of… https://kookaburraadvies.nl/scaling-innovative-tech-initiatives/ https://kookaburraadvies.nl/scaling-innovative-tech-initiatives/ Sat, 05 Mar 2022 11:17:52 GMT Most days of the week I’m busy working with a team of AI engineers Replacing mind numbing administrative work with automation tooling, (augmented by generative AI and machine learning) allowing professionals to get on…