BRIGHTON! AI Futures Hack: Creating Radical Infrastructures - 6 May www.eventbrite.co.uk/events/19864...

But where

agi within 6 months (artificial grendel intelligence)

for sale: data center, never used

I hate @theobserveruk.bsky.social's 'Global AI Index' observer.co.uk/data/global-ai

I'm at God's closed door I'm at God's open window I'm at the combination God's closed door with the windows open

Universities ‘threatened by spurious Home Office visa rejections’ New rules will punish institutions if study visas are rejected — but they say the official reasons given for refusals are often inaccurate

This Times report suggests the Home Office is unable to reverse egregious mistakes, if it realises it has rejected university applicants on spurious grounds due to its own incompetence
www.thetimes.com/article/1644...

Closing the Pearly Strait

Cigarettes that moan when you smoke them

It was the calm before the—as it turned out—further calm, each calm preceding the next, day after day of relentless, stultifying calm, until we could no longer remember anything but the calm, nor hope that anything would ever exist beyond the calm, the endless, ongoing calm, the final calm.

I just know these big LLM chatbots have a huge chunk of GOFAI under the hood as well. Is this a known thing? You can tell from looking at em. Is it in the documentation or is it all hush hush

Citizens (THE INK x Holly Taymar) YouTube video by Holly Taymar

Trippy lil song I made with Holly Taymar m.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Wn...

Please block :)

One example of this might be the recentish idea (Friston, Seth) that consciousness is might be like minimising a loss function

SCULLY: It's impossible. There's no one on earth who could teach you to fit that many marshmallows in your mouth.

MULDER: Daff righ...... No one...... on urff...

It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

When I take out my colander to drain the pasta it makes a SCHWING sound not unlike a sword being unsheathed

they are adding a sixth stage to grief called monkey mode

(stepping out of the shadows with a switchblade) is this your switchblade? i found it in the shadows

Description of a collaborative sperm whale birth and shifts in coda vocal styles during key events - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Description of a collaborative sperm whale birth and shifts in coda vocal styles during key events

'scientists documented the group’s behaviour, watching them from the boat....The data they collected, which was published on Thursday in the journals Scientific Reports and Science, represents an exceptional rarity in the history of science.' 2/2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oat latte .... and leave the bottle

Today!

I thought I was full of emotions but it's just ghosts

On slightly closer inspection this is fine! - looks like it is a special themed issue about youth, not necessarily aimed at youth (although some will be interested), with a playful fun cover, brightening everyone's days 😊

Brb

Loss and Damage Response Toolkit By The Loss and Damage Collaboration

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Loss and Damage Response Toolkit

We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!

More: www.lossanddamagecollaborat...
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Bristol snubbed

Bristol fails in UK City of Culture bid

There is no UK city of culture which is not at the same time a UK city of barbarism

Considering sunsetting my ai slop ian hislop era. Inside me yearning to be free is my Tom Sloppard