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The idea of highly specialised, niche AI which is potentially capable of bringing great benefit (cure cancer, control nuclear fusion, generate new materials and novel drugs, etc) is an exciting prospect but this pursuit of AGI/superintelligence is a BAD idea, especially when there's no oversight.
But... "person, woman, man, camera, TV".
Articulate, compassionate, intelligent and thoughtful. Makes a lovely change to the current lot...
Yesterday's full conversation between @barackobama.bsky.social and the excellent @stevescully.bsky.social is worth your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOv3...
That interview with Mandelson in November was focussed on a role at Oxford Uni & briefly touched on the possibility of being ambassador. Epstein didn't come up. Perhaps it should have, safeguarding and all that. I don't suppose he's in the running for that kind of work any more.
Michael Pipoquinha is an amazing musician, check this band out! #bass #bassguitar #jazz #jazzfusion youtu.be/_T07stdw4Lw?...
Photo from my gig last night #funk #guitar
@lewisgoodall.com you might already know his work, but Ted Gioia writes a lot on Substack about tech, the future, society, culture, etc and imho he has particularly interesting views on the future of AI. Check it out. open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
Meloni looked really hacked off for some reason?
I guess as long as he's running the "attack" department rather than being involved in defence then everything's okay 🫡
Interesting to see the tone of replies here compared to those on twitter!
I mean, is there anything beyond the 'optics' of having translators? It's there mainly for Putin's domestic consumption? A power play of sorts?
In which case it's perhaps interesting that all the reports were initially saying that they'll be having a one-on-one meeting, just with translators present?
I wonder if the Americans can listen in to that chat? Presumably it's all mic'ed up. I assume Putin is fluent in English, but just choses not to speak it in public?
Fascinating discussion about AI if you have a couple of hours to spare. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hzg...
Yeah, I agree.
Yeah, there is a bit of that in there. Tbh the gist of that conversation seems to be more about security than the damage itself. I think it's true to say that it will be very costly overall though, especially when you factor in future security considerations. chatgpt.com/share/688a38...
These chaps seem to know what they're talking about. www.pprune.org/military-avi...
They'll have to strip the engines down to inspect, replace parts, etc etc. I don't know if you've ever flown, but if you have I'm sure you'll appreciate that the engine is quite important.
If you think about it, it's not just a case of scraping a bit of paint off. It could be corrosive and, apart from anything else, apparently they tried to damage the engines with crowbars. Who knows if they might have thrown nails or something into them.
I think it's perfectly possible (preferable, even) to protest for action to be taken on the horrendous situation in Palestine without being arrested, isn't it? George did 🤷♂️
Well, that's not very nice is it? But thanks for your thoughts.
Really? Are you serious? 'Doubtless' you can imagine yourself going down to Culdrose, hopping the fence and attacking a few helicopters.
I'm pretty certain "Palestine Action" wouldn't have been proscribed under most other circumstances, but as they broke into an airbase and caused a few million quids worth of damage to national defence assets (to our collective cost) they have had the book thrown at them. Probably best not do that.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social is talking about climate change today, and one of his callers talked about how the super rich are buying up property in New Zealand in preparation for climate catastrophe. This is not something I'd heard of before, one prominent name is Peter Thiel chatgpt.com/share/688756...
Ah, okay it's based on a fifty hour week then. It's slightly disingenuous imho www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...
Where does that £14 an hour figure come from? BMA says salary is based on a 40 hour week, so £36616 / (40 hours x 52 weeks) is £17.60 Still not good, but leaves me a bit confused as to how that figure comes about.
Some intensely crazy heavy funky improvised music right here! Wayne Krantz, Tim Lefebvre and Keith Carlock in magnificent form. youtu.be/ajgb8tQx128?...
With the teacher discussion, I'm a little surprised that Gullis' name didn't come up.
Well, duh...
Genuine question : if you're discussing neurodiversity and someone with Tourette Syndrome rings in with Coprolalia (sweary tics) how would you deal with it? Is that something OFCOM would overlook, do you dump just the swearing, or are those people effectively not able to appear on daytime radio?
Is it correct that in their third year it's risen to £50k ?
"The diagnosis of just about everything is on the rise. Asthma, ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, multiple cancers, multiple genetic diseases, dementia, hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, diabetes, osteoporosis... and a compulsion to vote for Reform…"
JFC I'm not sure what's worse, reading their thoughts or the fact that when I read it I can hear their frigging voices in my head. www.spectator.co.uk/article/net-...
Sure, but medicating for it seems problematic to me, particularly in children. I think the more difficult question to answer, but the more important one, is what's the root cause?
WTF are parents doing to their kids? Drugging them left, right and centre it would seem. It's fucking crazy. I can't help but think that diet and environment are the culprits. Stop feeding them sugar in everything for a start! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Weird to hear someone describe themselves as being "socially inferior". Those kind of people are real nitwits aren't they?
Bear this in mind
I remember getting this leaflet through the door (as every household did) and, to be fair to the landlord, it doesn't say explicitly that our right to free movement would be lost. Which goes to show how crap Cameron & then May's govts were at comms and then negotiation. www.gov.uk/government/p...
I'm sorry to hear that Alan Yentob has died. He seemed to be a very nice man and a positive force for the BBC.
By the Telegraph's "Entertainment and Royal Correspondent" , no less. Are they journalists?
It was the Eye wot done it?! @privateeyenews.bsky.social
Do you think that if, god forbid, they did actually win a general election that Farage would stay as PM for any length of time? I can't help but think that he's lazy and the hard work is beyond him, and what about the £1m he's currently 'earning' annually? He'd miss that too much, surely?
If you're looking at AI again soon, could I suggest you watch this excellent speech made in the Lords about copyright and AI? parliamentlive.tv/event/index/... Also, Iain Dale had Brian Klein on last night talking about deepfake. Fascinating - especially the bit about Nazis!
Brilliant speech about copyright theft and AI. parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
His example of a man who said he wanted to emigrate because of all the immigration didn't strike me as being very thoughtful.
They missed off 'Inglorious Basterds'.
It's becoming clear to me why James doesn't read out listener's poems... 😄
Javier is all adither A crap poem pulled his trigger "An admission" he wrote "I'm calling out this bloke." I blame social media.
Thanks for letting me know 👍
Haha!
There once was a woke Marxist pope Whose president likes an unwanted grope. He's evil and mean but he wants to be seen as a genius... The whole thing's a joke.
What does that mean for Roe v. Wade?
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
John McLaughlin Allan Holdsworth Peter Bernstein Kurt Rosenwinkel Scott Henderson
It's International Jazz Day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQK2...
Timely reminder of why those pricks Arron Banks and Farage should be nowhere near the seat of power.
Damn, sounds like it was really good and I missed it!
Hitch on Trump
@mrjamesob.bsky.social if you haven't tried it, can I recommend you try Google's NotebookLM (an AI research tool). For example, you can upload the Project 2025 pdf and other associated publications and ask whatever questions you like, receiving detailed and nuanced answers. notebooklm.google.com
Hi @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Here in the Bristol area we have mayoral elections coming up, and Banks is running for Reform. A local news site says it's going to be very tight, with possibly Green winning. My concern is more about banks tho. Any idea if there's good, pithy anti-banks campaign?
I notice that Labour politicians are liberally using Brexity language when discussing the steel work today. "Take back control", "Sovereign capability" etc
Interesting. If you go on to the Trump store website there are a few things which specify 'Made in America' but, from what I can see, most don't.
Are they still using signal and deleting their messages?
youtu.be/VmW-ScmGRMA?...
They make great high end guitars and amplifiers in the USA, although they have a huge amount of excellent competition, and in the low/mid price bracket most of their big brands like Fender manufacture in Korea/Japan/China/Mexico etc.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Does Nick have Aldridge Prior on, talking about the Beatles?
The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today. Some very brief highlights: 🧵 1/8
Are they indiscriminate in what they use to train AI? They just find a source and hoover it all up? What if a user is happy for old work to be used but not new stuff? A "one-off exception allowing major rights holders to license the past 75 years of content for AI training" ?!
The opt in / opt out question is going to be incredibly hard to implement either way I assume. robots.txt won't cut it, will it? Not everyone has their own domain. What happens if (like most artists) you have your work available on multiple platforms?
So Arron 'Fuckface' Banks is running for Mayor in the Bristol area? I hope he gets absolutely destroyed.
For quite some time now, my wife and I have enjoyed pronouncing the WH part of WH Smiths as a sharp whuff of breath. But No more 😭 What will we do?
Inside Brian Eno's Studio youtu.be/nR4JAonAR4g?...
Can't stand his high pitched whining.
They charge by the page, don't they?
Fascinating that on Breitbart its top story is a denial by Hegseth, claiming it's a hoax, and then in the very next article it basically reiterates the whole story from the Atlantic (including White House confirmation) but with a swipe at Goldberg.
www.cbp.gov/travel/cbp-s...
Maybe the NSA? That's a scary but perhaps real prospect. Many questions, but no clear answer yet. Only speculation and suspicion based on these fears. But fwiw I think it's important to know the facts before drawing conclusions, and it is true that the USA has always had tight controls on entry.
Are you suggesting the evidence was planted?
It'll be interested to see what else comes out. According to this, the chap was in possession of confidential info from Los Alamos in violation of a non disclosure agreement. Important context. Still concerning, but omit this info & it changes the story🤷♂️ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/w...
"You should comply with all entry, visa and other conditions of entry. The authorities in the U.S. set and enforce entry rules strictly. You may be liable to arrest or detention if you break the rules." Don't get me wrong but that's not really news. They've always been strict, now more so.
And for the UK, the NHS...
Intrigued to know why he invokes the idea of 'the Kraken'. Wasn't that something which came up under Trump's last presidency, related to QAnon?
Darkly ambient. mjkl.bandcamp.com/track/inear
I guess what I'm left wondering is whether a non disclosure clause is routinely part of the contract of employment for a radio personality? If not, then presumably it was agreed on as part of her contract being terminated, in which case there must have been some incentive for her to agree to that?
I don't think so.
If so, why did she agree to a NDA?
I'm a bit confused over the difference between tariff and other taxes like VAT. Obviously we pay VAT as consumers but it's also paid through the whole supply chain. In the USA consumers pay sales tax but there's no VAT regime afaik?
Bullet points 👍 A list which uses numbers twice is just silly 😄
@mrjamesob.bsky.social not wishing to cause too much alarm, but look at the connections between Peter Thiel, Palantir and the NHS.
It occurred to me, is Donald Trump a man of the world? Has he spent time abroad, visiting other cultures and relaxing in some of the world's most beautiful and historic areas? I think the answer is "No". He golfs a bit, and he largely stays in the USA.
I had quite a long 'chat' with Grok about these issues and it's pretty remarkable and worrying. Whether any of it is true is hard to know for sure. x.com/i/grok/share...
Speaking of the Spectator, you mustn't let Gove off the hook when talking about Brexit. He doesn't seem to get mentioned often enough.
Here in the UK in 2016 we had one the most widely circulated (but also utterly obnoxious) newspapers with a headline saying 'Enemies of the People' because judges had questions about Brexit. I'm not sure if that makes us behind or ahead of the curve. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemies...
Regarding the cake analogy, perhaps this is a good way of explaining it visually? youtu.be/L-dzu7-YHLo?...
Not a prediction, but a thought - a deal is eventually done, then in 2028 Putin (if he and Trump are still around) starts rattling sabres and Trump tries to run again on the basis that only Donald J Trump can hold the peace... Am I being deranged in thinking that?
📄 NEW: Yesterday's Oval Office ambush of Volodymyr Zelenskyy shocked the world, but it was predictable if you understand Trump as an agent of long-term KGB influence in the name of "peace." A quick summary of how we got here. More to follow. america2.news/americas-dar...
If they go pretty much straight to Balmoral then I guess there won't be many mass protests or Trump blimps to navigate. And then presumably they'll have some first class food, talk a bit about nothing political (is that really a thing with our monarchy or just a façade?) and shoot some gamey birds?