Learned from another source (alright, GPT) that the current legal framework is based on “introducing content to new audiences”, so yes, you need to permission such transclusions.

What is the legal copyright status of transclusion? If I do <img href=“http://somone_elses_website/a.png> on my page, have I copied it?

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Dune.

Or maybe “"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." ;-)

The angel of the Eastern Gate put his wings over his head to shield himself from the first drops. ‘I’m sorry,’ he said politely. ‘What was it you were saying?’ ‘I said, that one went down like a lead balloon,’ said the serpent.

Sycophancy… alignment… overfitting on what feedback pleases each user summed over users vs what the system needs as a whole. It rhymes with zeroth law vs first and second laws in Asimov. Obvious but I just connected it.

Everyone's building AI science agents.

The claims are extraordinary. But when we test whether these systems can actually do science, recent top ones still fail challenges that human scientists can solve the majority of the time. 🧵

In “wake, watch, wonder” by Robert J Sawyer, one of my favourite optimistic AI novel series, there’s a morning where everyone wakes up and all the spam has gone, and that’s when the world learns of the existence of the benevolent AI. Reminded of this by Glasswing, but vulnerabilities not spam!

I’m also interested in the work models of those teams. At AI in RSE workshop couple of week ago, there was consensus on using AI assisted engineering in research programming, but not on whether we “let it cook”. Is the code the artefact of research reproducibility or system behaviour.

I’m interested in “is AI+(Human expert)>AI>HE” for that half. Ie in which areas are we relevant as team members and how.

I’m reflecting a lot on the perils of overthinking things.

I’ve been looking for a way to explain to folks what is happening, and why “the AI” isn’t always the big bad all the time.

Sure mega tech is trying to ruin it, but real wholesome work is happening in AI.

What Jay and team, along with many others are building for us will make our network stronger.

an app is just a lens over the open network of data, and you can personalize what your lens looks like

This is incredibly relevant for many of us in academia

"The AI Grad Student": A Harvard professor describes working with Claude.

Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: "It faked results, hoping I wouldn't notice."

But he ends the essay with "Now I'm doing 100% of my research with LLMs".

Am I losing my mind?

I am determined to separate the way our current form of digital capitalism has brought us the first wave of this technology, which has some very sucky aspects, from excitement at the technology itself.

I have hope the Linux Moment for genAI is coming.

The Swiss work on Apertus is interesting…

Arriving in Edinburgh for a workshop on research software engineering and generative AI, funded via Schmidt Sciences.

A real chance to begin to set the practices and safeguards for our profession to use this technology with joy, wisely and well.

Which is not how many use it now!

I did expect this eventually as soon as CLRC and PPARC merged many years ago. I do think the case to move non-big-science physics and astronomy (theory, phenomenology…) into EPSRC is reasonable, leaving the uk contributions to large international facilities in STFC.

I love how much of what we think of as modern information science was invented or discovered way before computing. Informatics is an old old discipline. Gleick’s popular book on this is great.

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Montage with photo of Prof Mark Parsons and quote: "This report provides a resounding justification of the value of Government investment in large-scale national supercomputing."

ARCHER2, the UK national supercomputing service, has delivered an eightfold return on investment to the economy according to independent analysis. Operated by EPCC, it has enabled more than £4.2bn in benefits to the UK economy since launching in 2021: edin.ac/47JGMHB

Which UK HE has the least obstructive and self-harming professional culture?

I’m reminded (via supplier relationships) how different corporate cultures in the same sector can be.

Is it us? I do hope it’s not us.

🇨🇭 In Ticino, the open Swiss model Apertus powers in-house AI translation for the Cantonal Administration — boosting multilingual services with local, transparent control. A great example of sovereign AI in action bit.ly/4rzU0Og @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social @eth-ai-center.bsky.social

“Violent stochastic processes” feels like it should mean something mathematical. Sure, your process is Markovian, but is it also von Clausewitzian?

My LLM says “I can’t help model or optimise a setup for people shooting one another.

If your interest is really in the underlying mathematics, I can help recast it as a non-violent stochastic process. “

Taking into account distributions of human reaction times and bullet velocities, what is the probability distribution over the percentage of people that would die in a Circular Firijg Squad, as a function of distance between participants?

The cultural observation game at Sadler’s Wells East when West Ham are playing is hilarious. “Are you here for the dance or the football?”…

"Shock! Shock!" is how the "Father of the Analysis of Algorithms" Don Knuth described an interaction with Claude, proving an open problem he worked on for weeks

#HPC and #AI compute enables the unthinkable and begins to automate the scientific method and human (?) progress 🚀

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I like to think @ucl-arc.bsky.social is an attempt at doing something different: professional service done with academic instincts, research and teaching done by mutually supportive multi skilled teams. The challenge is “impedance matching” with the prevailing PS and academic cultures.