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If you missed my remarks on the case for Sovereign AI, here’s my talk from Coordinating British Progress on Friday.
Thanks again both @aeronlaffere and @lilygeidelberg for organising and to @WalkerMarcus for generously hosting us in the extraordinary setting of St Bartholomew the Great.
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Lust is the great filter.
Jensen Huang, at least, believed in Britain, even if we don’t. Before his personal life blew up, he visited to mark Nvidia’s investment in British startups, while lauding our potential and intellectual superpowers. While recent evidence suggests he’s perhaps not always a flawless judge of others’ motives, his track record suggests he understands a thing or two about building.
And we could do with building. Torn as we currently are between the US and EU, we need less effort on “soft power”, “moral leadership”, and pointless acts of post-colonial self-flagellation, and more on a realist effort to build out resources our neighbours need badly enough, to come to our aid in extremis.
Read more from @moveincircles: buff.ly/DifGFQ4
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I wrote a few weeks back that "getting a job at a frontier lab may soon look like getting one in national security. It will require clearances, background checks and scrutiny over foreign ties" — Huang feels like the watershed.
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The technological republic is dead. Long live the technological republic!
President Trump reveals the DOJ warned the head of a major AI company "get ready to go to jail, please give your wife a kiss goodnight...do you like the color orange?"
Asked why he isn’t worried that AI builders say there’s a 10% chance it kills humanity:
TRUMP: “The DOJ. We had a situation where somebody was reported to us to be doing something bad with AI. We called them very strongly and said, get ready to go to jail. Please give your wife a kiss goodnight.”
Interviewer: “Who was this person?”
TRUMP: “I can’t tell you.”
Interviewer: “Or this company?”
TRUMP: “I can’t tell you. But we said, do you like the color orange? Because get rid. It said, go home right now. See your wife and children. Give them a kiss. Good night. And that’s the story.”
Interviewer: “If the Democrats wanted...”
TRUMP: “Because tomorrow morning you’re going to jail.”
Interviewer: “If they wanted to make a deal to put that to...”
TRUMP: “Let me tell you, this person totally changed everything. Totally. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.”
Interviewer: “Was it a leader of a major AI company?”
TRUMP: “One of the big ones, yeah.”
Interviewer: “Okay.”
TRUMP: “One of the big ones.”
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Worth knowing: it’s not a total AI ban. It only targets superintelligence, which doesn’t exist (just yet). Everyday tools are unaffected. It does signal that AI policy is being shaped by people on the ground, and that ultimately the winds continue to blow against AI in the US.
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Live footage of when Huang started pushing for less export controls.
son on yıl içerisinde sinema salonunda izlediğim en çarpıcı sahne tartışmasız Nolan'ın Sirenleri yorumlama şekliydi
öyle ki bu zamana kadar Odysseus anlatılarında Sirenler harika şarkılarla insanları ağına düşüren muhteşem güzel varlıklardı...
ama Nolan hikayeyi öyle rasyonel bir yerden ele aldı ki...
Eurylochus: "Sirenlerin şarkısı nasıldı?"
Odysseus: "Olmak istediğin her şeydi. Ve sonra, keşke hiç dilememiş olmayı isteyeceğin her şey... Kaşımak istediğin ama derinin altında kaldığı için bir türlü ulaşamadığın nefis bir kaşıntı gibiydi. Bu yüzden o nefis kaşıntı zamanla dayanılmaz hale geldi. Sana en çok istediğin şeyin, aslında asla sahip olamayacağın şey olduğunu söylüyordu. Ve en çok sahip olamayacağın şeyin de... Zaten bir zamanlar sahip olup kaybettiğin şey olduğunu fısıldıyordu. Tutamadığım tüm sözlerin şarkısıydı o. Ve bana aslında eve dönmek istemediğimi söyledi."
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They met in a data centre.
US intelligence agencies believe @Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had romantic relationship with alleged Chinese spy
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With Dems taking Congress in January, Trump can’t force states to accept AI data centres, so he’s trying to tempt them instead. But after the midterms, even politicians who back them won’t want to put their heads above the parapet. Doubt many will bite.
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Tried to drop off clothes at four charity shops today — none of which were taking clothes. We're so back.
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My suggestion that every data centre should come with a public sauna seems less ridiculous by the day.
Voters delivered an overwhelming message on data centers this week, and it is incumbent upon industry actors to hear that message and respond to it by building AI infrastructure in ways that benefit both individual communities and the country as a whole.
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The only thing that can enforce this is AI but by his own measure any AI in the public sector must add jobs. Will this add jobs?
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced employers will be legally required to publish salaries on job adverts
"You should know what a job pays before spending your time and effort applying for it"
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