The Financial Times and OpenAI strike content licensing deal via Financial Times
on.ft.com/3Qq9BAm

“The best way of getting long-term economic growth is through improving education. And the best way of doing that is by finding great teachers.” Quite right Lucy Kellaway

Fund Now Teach!

thetimes.co.uk/article/pullin…

How TikTok’s Chinese owner tightened its grip on the app ft.com/content/0e040c… via @ft

Zoom dysmorphia

#21stcenturyproblems

ft.com/content/12b979… via @ft

Terrific - and unnerving - interview. Here’s Dennett on LLMs:

This is the most dangerous advance of technology in the last thousand years. It’s more dangerous than gunpowder and nuclear war because it may destroy trust. If we lose trust, we’re toast.

Sad to hear of Daniel Dennett's death.

I was lucky enough to interview him for Lunch with the Financial Times in 2017 in which he dazzled in talking about Rene Descartes, Alan Turing, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Donald Trump and human robots

ft.com/content/96187a… via @ft

“I understand why there would be a correlation between neurodiversity and founding companies: if you don't feel you fit in a current structure, the most obvious thing is to build a new one.'

I'm sure Elon Musk agrees

Great feature from Sadia

sifted.eu/articles/neuro…

Next year? Some say AGI is already here:

noemamag.com/artificial-gen…

ft.com/content/027b13… via @ft

“For a very long time, I felt trapped. There was no stopping or taking a break.” Sadia talks to founders about the mental toll of running a startup

In a Sifted survey of 156 founders 49% said they were considering quitting this year

sifted.eu/articles/found…

“At the far reaches of the universe lies a government job.” Fascinating article by writer Yu Hua on the changing mentality of Chinese workers

economist.com/by-invitation/… from The Economist

In the words of Demis Hassabis

'We’re at the beginning of a new golden era of scientific discovery.'

“I wouldn’t be surprised if [AGI] happened in the next decade.'

DeepMind is exploring ways to 'ground' AI models to reduce hallucinations

ft.com/content/774901… via @ft

'We’re all-in on the UK,' says Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth of a16z

Great interview with Amy Lewin on the attractions of the UK tech sector and what he looks for in great founders Sifted

sifted.eu/articles/a16z-…

When insiders think it's time to sell....

ft.com/content/3bcc39… via @ft

Chinese and western scientists identify ‘red lines’ on AI risks ft.com/content/375f4e… via @ft

Generation Alpha (yup, new one on me too) is busy founding AI startups...

Fascinating report from Tim Smith Sifted

sifted.eu/articles/teena…

“Down is the new up.” Downround IPOs are becoming the new thing in Silicon Valley Tabby Kinder

ft.com/content/01d264… via @ft

I do not believe human-level AI (artificial superintelligence, or the commonest sense of #AGI ) is close at hand. AI has made breakthroughs, but the claim of AGI by 2030 is as laughable as claims of AGI by 1980 are in retrospect. Look how similar the rhetoric was in LIFE in 1970!

It doesn't have to be this way.

'We have the opportunity to re-shape a digital future that prioritises human well-being, equity, and autonomy,' writes Tim Berners-Lee on the WWW's 35th birthday

link.medium.com/revDo5ARTHb

Telegram hits 900mn users and nears profitability as founder considers IPO ft.com/content/8d6ceb… via @ft

Wait, what? Nationalise OpenAI?