HELEN TAYLOR

Anyone who has worked in IT for any length of time will have heard the phrase “Garbage in, garbage out.” It was practically a mantra in the 80s and 90s — a reminder that computers aren’t magical, mysterious beings. They don’t “decide” to misbehave. They simply process what they’re given. Feed a system poor data, broken code, or badly structured information, and you’ll get exactly that back out. And really, isn’t that the perfect description of AI?

The Story Behind My Stories series began because readers wanted to know how my life experiences fed into the DI Matthew Goodwin crime fiction series.

I retired on the 9 June this year. I said I was retiring to write full time. I reached a point where running someone else's company as the General Manager, really the COO, didn't leave enough time or energy to write. I was also a mother to a twenty one year old who was still financially dependent on me while at university and living at home. I was a dog mum. I was a partner in a relationship that was still fairly new but solid, fulfilling and supportive. Something had to give