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Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

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It’s a truly momentous outcome. Do we dare to dream bigger?

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It’s a great moment!

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Incredible result. An amazing achievement for Magyar and also for the people of Hungary. All is not lost!

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BREAKING: Hungary just saw a stunning political shakeup. Opposition leader Péter Magyar says Prime Minister Viktor Orbán personally called to congratulate him on his victory, marking the imminent end to Orbán’s long grip on power.

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Great insight on what we are seeing as coercive control of whole countries and the roots of it. Looking forward to seeing the write up!

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I mean this is just the dumbest possible moment to come up with this line, when he has visibly stood up to US aggression and kept us out a war she would have weekly joined.

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Perhaps the time to learn that wish fulfilment doesn’t make it true

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The Home Office' anti-immigration agenda is strangling growth across the economy. It prevents a closer relationship with Europe, deprives us of the workers we need and undermines universities.

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When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

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Keynote talk by Glen Cohen, Harvard Law School on Medicsl AI: Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Considerations at Hong Kong Global AI Governance Conference. So many good regulatory issues to address for any good medical AI application we want to use

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Are the People Around You Just Zombies? 🧟
Philosopher Barry Smith (@barrycsmith.bsky.social) on Wittgenstein's radical answer to one of philosophy's oldest questions — and why the problem of other minds may not be a problem at all.

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Delighted to take part in the Hong Kong Global AI Governance Conference at HKU. I notice, though, the the board showing photos of the speakers is AI generated. I have never seen this photo of me, and a tie has been photoshopped onto Herman Cappelen. He never wears a tie!

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Start of Hong Kong Global AI Governance Conference with a speech from President of HKU, Professor Xiang Zhang who tells us that unlike the industrial revolution or the invention of cars or airplanes, we have in AI a technology that rivals us and our brain’s central role in tasks we perform

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This is one of the studies (1885) John Singer Sargent made for 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose.' The lanterns which we can see here were painted with very thin layers of paint; this allowed the light to seem like it was emanating from within rather than just sitting on the surface.

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Too active

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Thought and hopes. Same thing

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And a happy Easter to you too

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Seurat’s technique, presented so perfectly in Seurat and the Sea, @courtauld.bsky.social Colour theory inspired dots with opposing hues, that side by side produce an optical fusion, enabling him to capture the hazy light, the red roof that is not just red, the grasses in blues, reds and greens

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Been there and can’t but agree

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Great panel discussion for British Philosophical Association campaign #PhilosophyMatters to AI @ip-sas.bsky.social AI researchers and Institute of Philosophy Fellows Winnie Street and Geoff Keeling from Google and Murray Shanahan from Google DeepMind with philosophers Ben Henke and Alex Grzankowski

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Project Martha backwards

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A pleasure to be listening to friend and collaborator Charles Spence speaking at the book launch for Multisensory Experiences 2nd edition by Carlos Velasco and Marianna Obrist at UCL, reminding us that nothing is new when it comes to multisensory design

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Time to learn on your own

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That’s really up to you

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Public at large is what he’s after

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They are a mainstay for me

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I’ve tried to stick with BBC’s Americast, mainly for the astute commentary by Anthony Zircher and Sarah Smith, but I can no longer take Justin Webb as apologist for Trump. While the rest of the BBC express doubt that Iran took place in talks, Webb desperately tries to persuade us they did, secretly

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Robert Simpson: if Sam Altman is worried about these issues, we should be too. Future of Democracy and AI, @ip-sas.bsky.social , part of the British Philosophical Association Philosophy Fortnight. #PhilosophyMatters to democracy organized by @elisewoodard.bsky.social & @michaelhannon.bsky.social

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