‘Rare now are the Nobel prize winners’ is an objectively very funny phrase. Like saying ‘rare now are the annual events that still occur annually’.

i will not pull it, sam-i-am. i will not choose who dies by tram

This sounds great to me, not least because there are possibly very interesting parallels with contemporary imaginaries of AGI, post-scarcity, and longtermism. The inability to lock something down to one 'school' doesn't mean its weak, it means its got interdisciplinary potential

Athene Donald will deliver the annual British Pugwash Lecture. Her talk will reflect on the legacy of Sir Joseph Rotblat in a time of nuclear risk.
📅9th May
⏰5.30pm
🌎Online and in Cambridge

Register for tickets: ow.ly/WI0850RvClF
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

Well I think this PhD topic sounds fascinating

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“The first magnificent bounty had not been the beginning of endless riches, but a one-off harvesting of millennia of soil wealth built up by biodiversity and symbiosis. Complexity was the goose that laid golden eggs, and she had been slaughtered.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Sorry to rain on your parade The Telegraph

1. We haven't issued a denial
2. We aren't cloud seeding in UAE
3. Our weather and climate scientists are providing evidence-based comments to explain what happened
4. Read more from them at rdg.ac/49GVsW3
5. Jog on

I analyzed a bunch of Suno's output, and found it generates music that closely resembles well-known, copyrighted music: melodies, chord progressions, lyrics, instrumental parts, and styles. This raises serious questions about what it’s trained on.

Here are some examples 👇🧵…

Oh dear. Laurence Fox posts a list of nonsense (ie, wrong on the facts) to convey his own prejudices and grievances. & Elon Musk is utterly credulous and on his own journey so responds without 30 seconds thought as to its veracity or intent.

Superb thread

Amused that Giles (who famously went beserk at his subeditors & told a journalist 'Youre a lying conniving c**t. I hope you f-king rot in hell') thinks he'd be quiet & stoical at the preventable death of his child. I guess he's just a better person than me shorturl.at/xELT6

Totally extraordinary Twitter ad for some grim AI ‘therapy’ app. Shitty AI video; shitty AI song; copyright theft. It’s got the lot. But there’s no shame. It’s like they’re selling the flaws of AI as their USP.

This is, it has to be said, very funny

I am excited to share my new op-ed. Thank you Newsweek Thank you to the Public Voices Project in partnership with the MacArthur Foundation. Thanks Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon and Just Tech
newsweek.com/zombie-trainer…

The journal Nature: 'AI now beats humans at basic tasks'.

Me: Really?

New blog post. See link to 'More thoughts' in my bio.