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Alys Key
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Writing UK 2.0, a newsletter about tech & politics in Britain 📩 | Freelance editor & journalist | Editorial at @britishprogress | Header @dancoxdesign
London Katılım Haziran 2011
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We need a name for all the DeepMind alumni doing exciting things in the UK tech scene, but calling it the DeepMind Mafia feels a bit unimaginative. Anyone have ideas?
Tim Rocktäschel@_rockt
Excited to co-found Recursive (@recursive_si) with an exceptional team in London and SF to create AI that experiments on how to safely improve itself, turning compute into knowledge that accumulates in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discoveries.
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@WoodstockComp I know, but I think they should still have overlapped, possibly even both graduating in '97
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Come for the economics, stay to admire Pedro's baking skills
Pedro Serôdio@pdmsero
Most discussion of the potential displacement effects of AI focuses on benchmarks. But its economic impacts aren’t just dictated by the capabilities frontier. Which tasks it masters first, and which ones it will be less efficient at will matter just as much. A lot of work depends on knowledge that can be difficult to codify. Sometimes not because nobody hasn’t bothered to do it yet, but because the knowledge is produced through routes that are difficult to replicate or pin down, like sensory discrimination, pattern recognition, or contextual judgement. Counterintuitively, more codification can actually increase the returns to tacit knowledge. The more we write down about a process, the more valuable the human capacity to interpret and apply it in context. A richer knowledge base doesn't necessarily reduce the need for judgement. The capability frontier and the active deployment frontier are not the same. Whether AI advances evenly or unevenly along every dimension of human capability matters. How that progress is shaped matters at least as much as how quickly it happens. AI may continue exceeding one benchmark after another while leaving gaps on the parts of work that don't make it into the eval set where human labour retains comparative advantage. More so than the frontier, AI’s relative capabilities will determine whether human labour will still add value. You can read the full piece in our substack: britishprogress.substack.com/p/is-ai-the-ne…
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@Tom_Westgarth15 @matthewclifford Yes I like this, got to have some alliteration
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@alys_key DeepMind diaspora - potentially coined by @matthewclifford
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would anyone like to join me in forcing Alys to host a cider festival on 29 May to celebrate Oak Apple Day?
Alys Key@alys_key
As we go into a tragically short two-day weekend, I took on the question of where to put an additional bank holiday. I settled on Oak Apple Day, a forgotten holiday that is tied to royal history and folk traditions alike. Looking to the Dutch holiday of Koningsdag for inspiration, I think the best way to make an extra bank holiday work would be to turn it into a distinctive celebration, one that provides a guaranteed boost to the hospitality industry. I also had a look at the estimates for how much an additional bank holiday would cost and why statisticians actually find this so complicated to measure. This year, Oak Apple Day (29th May) falls on a Friday. Anyone fancy a cider to celebrate?
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Obviously a brilliant sketch but the lasting impact for me is probably going to be a desire to replicate Sarah's entire outfit
Saturday Night Live@nbcsnl
a scene from the crumbling marriage of two auctioneers
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@sarahdrinkwater Thanks, they look great. Yes hoping to revisit this topic as once I dipped my toe in I realised there was so much more to say and a lot more players than could fit into one post.
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@alys_key surprised you didn't come across buildxylo.ai writing this; already used in many councils across UK. ones in piece are more top down hence speed issues... but the demand from customers is real and exciting. we need better planning tools
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@emmaontheblock We'll have to have a belated cider in July, if we can work out the best place to find some in DC!
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@alys_key I would definitely celebrate a cider holiday 🍏
Enjoy your tragically short weekend!
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As we go into a tragically short two-day weekend, I took on the question of where to put an additional bank holiday.
I settled on Oak Apple Day, a forgotten holiday that is tied to royal history and folk traditions alike.
Looking to the Dutch holiday of Koningsdag for inspiration, I think the best way to make an extra bank holiday work would be to turn it into a distinctive celebration, one that provides a guaranteed boost to the hospitality industry.
I also had a look at the estimates for how much an additional bank holiday would cost and why statisticians actually find this so complicated to measure.
This year, Oak Apple Day (29th May) falls on a Friday. Anyone fancy a cider to celebrate?
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If you’re feeling scandalised about the eu proposals to ban VPNs you should subscribe to Glitch. We are covering age verification plans closely: projectglitch.xyz
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"He’s no story-teller. He could make 'we will fight them on the beaches' sound like a mortgage application." Ouch!
The Observer@ObserverUK
With local election results still being declared, a clear picture is already forming: Reform is on the rise. There will be, throughout the day and into the weekend, serious and mounting pressure on Keir Starmer. Is he really the person to lead Labour and the country? The party’s losses are already significant; within hours they may be catastrophic. Read The Observer's view on the prime minister now: observer.co.uk/opinion-and-id…
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Chaired a discussion about the future of authorship and AI last night, had a poem accepted for publication today... The writing dream is not dead yet!
Ben Butler@bengbutler
salon-style conversations about Ideas is exactly what teenage me thought Big City life would be like
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