Nicholas Beale

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Nicholas Beale

Nicholas Beale

@Starcourse

Chair, 695th Lord Mayor's Ethical AI Initiative. Personal views only. Blog on science & religion etc. Work in Strategy & Search. I only follow people I’ve met.

London, England Katılım Ocak 2018
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Nicholas Beale
Nicholas Beale@Starcourse·
Midterm local elections are largely protest votes. They don’t mean that people will vote that way at a GE. Reform continues its inexorable decline from its October peak & their shiftiness & incompetence will accelerate this. thetimes.com/comment/the-ti…
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Georgy Kantor
Georgy Kantor@GeorgyKantor·
@Starcourse @StJohnsOx This would be an absurd slur with regard to Mayne, Campion and Roberts - no one suggested that even at the time (not to mention Roberts wasn't executed under Elizabeth).
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Georgy Kantor
Georgy Kantor@GeorgyKantor·
Today Catholic Church commemorates Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, canonised by St Paul VI in 1970. Three of them were from @StJohnsOx: St Edmund Campion, St Cuthbert Mayne and and St John Roberts.
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Colin Wynter KC
Colin Wynter KC@QcWynter·
I found it an excellent piece of interviewing, akin to a skilful cross-examination. As we approach the first meaningful elections for the Polanski Greens, voters are entitled to see the man at the top of the platitudinous party subjected to meaningful interrogation. This was it.
Trevor Phillips@TrevorPTweets

@Simon_Nixon @itvnews @ZackPolanski I know you say you’ve watched several times, but may I suggest that next time you don’t watch it with your eyes closed, as you can then clock which broadcaster we work for. Perhaps then after that you can give it another go and listen to what is actually said.

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Simon Nixon
Simon Nixon@Simon_Nixon·
Apologies to the fine journos at @itvnews who I traduced when I associated them with @TrevorPTweets appalling i/v. Of course @ZackPolanski must be robustly scrutinised, but all that sneery hectoring achieves is to elicit sympathy, including from many who don’t share his politics
Trevor Phillips@TrevorPTweets

@Simon_Nixon @itvnews @ZackPolanski I know you say you’ve watched several times, but may I suggest that next time you don’t watch it with your eyes closed, as you can then clock which broadcaster we work for. Perhaps then after that you can give it another go and listen to what is actually said.

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Nicholas Beale
Nicholas Beale@Starcourse·
@Ned_Donovan Indeed. Ironically she was given her peerage after her daughter became a Labour MP.
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Ned Donovan
Ned Donovan@Ned_Donovan·
I think it's remarkable that Baroness Blake, a retired mid-ranking regional bureaucrat appointed to the House of Lords for life, had the arrogance to try and shut down someone who was simply saying goodbye to a place that his family has served for three generations.
Christian Hacking@Chackdubdub

So proud of my Dad for his spontaneous valedictory Speech, following removal of Hereditary Peers from House of Lords. If they won't give you a slot...make one!

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Zelex
Zelex@OBEhizele·
Richard Dawkins is a brilliant biologist. But that doesn't automatically make someone a strong thinker in epistemology or metaphysics. Those disciplines require different methods and habits of thought.
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Nicholas Beale
Nicholas Beale@Starcourse·
@holydisrupter In some fields (though not yours!) And if you have to borrow £150+bnpa it’s vital that the financial markets believe you have the necessary skills & experience.
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Rev Daniel French
Rev Daniel French@holydisrupter·
anyone can make up for a lack of qualifications if they are naturally curious, reasonably intelligent and can suspend the ego. It means things like taking on facts about the real world rather than being ideologically dogmatic. People's opinions on taxation are often very telling.
HJB News@HJB_News__

Rumours suggest Angela Rayner could take over from Rachel Reeves as Chancellor. She left Avondale High School in Stockport at 16, pregnant and with no qualifications. She later studied part-time at Stockport College, where she learned British Sign Language and gained an NVQ Level 2 in social care. She never went to university. She has no financial services experience.

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St Anne's Church Hall
St Anne's Church Hall@stanneskewhall·
Hiding in plain sight One minute from Kew Gardens is a church with 300 years of royal, artistic and botanical history. 📍 St Anne’s Church, Kew Green 🍰 Sunday Teas every Sunday, 2:30–5pm 🌿 10 minutes from Kew Gardens station @giles_fraser #church #anglicanchurch #london
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Paul Embery
Paul Embery@PaulEmbery·
Helping no.2 child with GCSE ‘Citizenship’ revision. Get a load of this.
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Nicholas Beale
Nicholas Beale@Starcourse·
@yudapearl You mean, of course, “preventing Hamas”. By no means all Palestinians support these genocidal aims.
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Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl@yudapearl·
“What do you say for your AI being used to kill Palestinians?” the student asked Dean. Dean responded that he appreciated the students’ message but was trying to deliver a “scientific lecture.” If I were Dean, I wouldn't evoke the neutrality of science but, rather, expose the genocidal implications of the protestors aims. "I don't believe," I'd say, "that Palestinian blood is holier that Israeli blood and, to the best of my knowledge, AI has been used effectively in preventing Palestinians from erasing ten million Israelis -- their openly declared "cause"."
Judea Pearl@yudapearl

Protesters shut down Berkeley Forum event hosting Google AI scientist Jeff Dean. Will AI scientists become the next target of the "Palestinian Cause" ??? dailycal.org/news/campus/pr…

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Nicholas Beale
Nicholas Beale@Starcourse·
@rorymeakin There was an Appointments Process. Notably @michaelgove approved/made the appointment & the DEFRA Select Committee unanimously supported it. He has since been reappointed twice.
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Nicholas Beale
Nicholas Beale@Starcourse·
@greg_ashman The idea that the "Turing Test" is a reliable test for consciousness is ludicrous. Turing probably intended it as a joke. It's really easy to fool (inexpert) human beings
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Greg Ashman
Greg Ashman@greg_ashman·
The reaction to Dawkins deciding Claude is conscious is fascinating. It really is just the Strong AI position that Roger Penrose was criticising in the 1980s. If you think consciousness is just an emergent property of a sufficiently complex computer then of course AI is conscious. It passes the Turing test and that’s it. The really interesting part is why it is obvious to so many of us that AI is *not* conscious: obvious to the point we think Dawkins’ credulity is amusing. What are we basing that on? Are we deluded or is there something else to consciousness that we cannot articulate but that we clearly sense?
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Nicholas Beale
Nicholas Beale@Starcourse·
@altantutar I'm not at all sure that London is behind San Francisco (as opposed to the Bay Area) as an AI Centre.
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altan tutar
altan tutar@altantutar·
London is the one of the major AI centers on earth, right behind San Francisco. Just think about all of this: 1/ Wayve (self-driving) raised $1.2B Series D at $8.6B valuation, with robotaxis already being seen in London. 2/ OpenAI & Anthropic launching offices in London, and hiring aggresively. 3/ Nscale raised £1.5b Series C for AI infra, building the UK's largest AI supercomputer with OpenAI & Nvidia. 4/ Ineffable Intelligence raised $1.1B at $5.1B with David Silver out of DeepMind being its cofounder 5/ Palantir made London their Europe Defence HQ 6/ Google Deepmind still standing strong at King's Cross 7/ Anthropic reportedly buying Fractile's AI inference chips, a company founded by an Cambridge PhD. The future is bright!
etn.@etnshow

"UK AI companies in the last quarter raised six billion pounds...3x what we did last year, more than the whole of... continental Europe combined". @Jameswise, Chairman of the £500M @UKSovereignAI Fund I on the UK's AI future: "We're working with some of the leading UK based and international venture funds and those relationships will be incredibly valuable for crowding in more money over time". "Should you need the hundred million pound round, the billion pound round or even the ten billion pound round... all the other public finance bodies we've got are looking at you from day one". "The UK needs a huge amount of capital to compete in AI. Luckily, we're going in the right direction... there is probably nowhere outside the US and China you can raise billion pound seed rounds like we're seeing here outside of the UK". From James's appearance in April.

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Nicholas Beale
Nicholas Beale@Starcourse·
Worth highlighting that one of the passers-by who intervened to impede the Golders Green attacker was Born in Iran, came to the UK in 1999, & now has 🇬🇧 citizenship. His two children live in Golders Green. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Sam Bowman
Sam Bowman@s8mb·
Tony Juniper was Executive Director of Friends of the Earth and ran for Parliament for the Green Party. The Conservatives made him Chairman of Natural England in 2019.
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James Wright@JPBWFarm

According to Natural England's modelling, the fish disco will save just 0.083 salmon and 0.028 sea trout per year. That works out to over £280,000 per fish saved. For £700 million, we could wipe out Somerset’s £41 million council deficit for a decade, fix every single pothole in the county, build a rail link to Minehead, and make every bus in Somerset free for years. Or we could just make the electricity that Hinkley produces cheaper, and we'd all benefit. Being a poor country is a choice.

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