And your beard is so … twisted

If we are what we eat, Generative AI is you.

The Field Note about command intent

In this note, we explore improving the command experience of our in-house research chat assistant with natural language command input.

Remaining Calm

Introducing a new open source project we call Calm. It is a small library of useful Apps Script functions for those developing on the Google Workspace environment.

A strangely open discussion about secrets.

What can a letter from 1968 teach us about the impact of secrets?

It’s not done yet

Is Generative AI the ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ of Tech? Impressive, but not fully dressed yet.

Emotional Cancellation

Artificial Intelligence is your saviour, steadfast and true.

The Art of Augmentation

Today we are opening our new report The Great Augmentation. Within this report, we take a look at the risks, considerations and good bits of LLMs in the modern workplace.

Oh, and we have licensed all our work under CC-BY-NC 4.0 to help keep innovation in the light.

Innovation is dying and it’s our own fault

In which we hypothesise that innovation is dying in darkness.
Openness in technology development can reduce redundancy and foster a culture of pride and leadership in problem-solving, ultimately enhancing the solutions we build.

Artificial Optimism in the Dead Internet

Back in 2011, the Dead Internet Theory might have seemed like little more than a digital ghost story.

Fast forward to today, with large-scale bot operations, rampant misinformation campaigns, and AI-generated content increasingly interacting with other AI outputs, it's time to reconsider.

Just a bunch of party analysts

We had a theory: we can better serve analysts by bringing the data to them, not the other way around.

In this post we explore how we experimented with extending Google Workspace to support analyst activities in the lab.

If AI is the hammer, every problem is a nail

Today we are opening access to our report Wielding the AI Hammer. In this report we take a high level look at considerations for early adopters of AI within their organisations.

The Productivity Paradox

Cultivating Capability in the Shadow of AI.

Introducing Distant Field Labs.

We needed a place to share our insights and make some big ideas public, so today we’re introducing not only why we are here but The Observatory - A place to open some of our work.