Simon Gallagher

“Elon Musk deserves the Nobel Prize for having served as the ultimate defender of free speech.” – Gad Saad

🚨 ESPECIAL DE NATAL CANCELADO? 🚨 ✨ Segundo o The Sun, o Especial de Natal desse ano pode ser cancelado, porque os produtores da série estão tendo dificuldades em encontrar alguém pra interpretar o Senhor do Tempo. 🧶 Vem entender.

Bought a fancy end-of-bed fan before the London heatwave began and - honestly - this is the single greatest purchase of my life

We created an AI short film with the producer of pulp fiction. Besides the fact that he was fascinated, the conversations led to important take aways. We’re dropping the full 30 minute episode on YouTube tomorrow. In the meantime, here’s the trailer.

If 34C is so unbearable as it seems to be in the UK, why do so many pay thousands of pounds every year to persue it by going on holiday abroad?

Apparently there's a volcano erupting right now in the Philippines. I'm watching a livestream when suddenly there's this extremely bright green fireball coming from a completely unrelated trajectory. Is that a meteor?

🚨 NEW: The UK has today recorded the hottest May day ever at 33.5C in Heathrow

Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models. What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

The Mandalorian and Grogu is the first Star Wars movie a kid experienced in a theater this weekend.

Anthropic onboarding day: Michael Scott introducing Karpathy like he just signed Wemby in free agency.

Stop-motion work on ‘THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU’ Phil Tippett and his studio returned to the Star Wars universe to work on the sequence.

We will all soon stop emphasizing something was created using AI and we will just focus on creating.