William Isaac
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William Isaac
@wsisaac
Principal Scientist @DeepMind | Previously @OSFellows & @hrdag. RT != endorsements. Opinions Mine. Pronouns: he/him| @williamis.bsky.social
London, England Katılım Nisan 2008
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I regret to inform you that the original Londonmaxxer was Taylor Swift
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Schmidt Sciences RFP to fund field experiments and empirical studies on how AI impacts work. Up to $200K for early career scientists. Plus you get to join the awesome Schmidt Sciences community.
If you're an ECR interested in AI + econ, apply!
schmidtsciences.org/ai-at-work/
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Hi, X! I’m Miriam, VP and GM of Google Maps and I just wanted to introduce myself. Excited to be here and share more information and insights about the latest updates to Maps, new ways to use our features, and more!
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We’re excited to announce that @join_ef has raised $200m of fresh capital, including $130m into our management company at a unicorn valuation, to be the natural home of the world’s most ambitious people in the Age of Entrepreneurship 🧵
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Survey Statistics: Blue Rose Research is hiring again !
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Ten years ago, AlphaGo’s legendary match in Seoul heralded the start of the modern era in AI. Its famous ‘Move 37’ signaled to us that AI techniques were ready to tackle real-world problems in areas like science - and ideas inspired by these methods are critical to building AGI
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Londonmaxxing is a good meme with a strong foundation. Business R&D in London -- especially in digital, data, tech, AI -- has exploded since 2012 on the back of decades of high public sector spending on R&D and enormous investments in great infrastructure. tomforth.co.uk/londonmaxxing/
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Ken Arrow is my EconGoat. Meeting a Nobel laureate for the first time and watching them work through complex policy problems was a major eye opener for me.
Joe Hazell@JADHazell
Since we are all talking about Tyler Cowen my favourite contribution of his is EconGoat. It made me think about economics totally differently, especially in how we (fail to) think about Hayek and what is good about competition and capitalism. mercatusgoat.s3.amazonaws.com/GOAT_Who-is-th…
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@ViewToATweet @binarybits Do we mean Netflix, the mail-order business, or streaming? To my earlier point, an aspect of the question here is a matter of timelines. Waymo (and other AV companies) are closer to Blockbuster than Netflix streaming, but have taken much longer to become viable.
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@binarybits @wsisaac Okay that wins as best example on this thread. The experience is fundamentally different (and a great example of how scarcity increases joy. A streamed movie has never been quite as good as getting the last copy of something from Blockbuster for family movie night)
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While we are indeed in a period of excessive hype, this take seems to ignore the impact of companies such as Uber (now Waymo) and Airbnb. They have in fact permanently altered industries such as transportation and housing. Andreessen's original thesis was directionally right, but wrong on timelines.
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
Marc Andreessen was wrong about software eating the world, and I see people making the same mistake about AI today. I wrote this almost three years ago and I wouldn't change a word if I were publishing it today.
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@binarybits What do you think about Uber? I would imagine this would be a much more tractable example. On Airbnb, the regulatory action in major cities is a major factor in the market share numbers.
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@wsisaac So if the question is "was Airbnb a successful startup?" the answer is obviously yes. But if it's "did Airbnb change hospitality the way iTunes and Spotify changed the music business" I have to say not really.
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The steam locomotive. The electric motor. Portland cement. The electromagnetic induction coil. The electric telegraph. The fax machine. The synthetic dye. The Bessemer steel process. The electric light bulb. The steam turbine. Pneumatic tyres. The discovery of the electron. Aspirin synthesis. The thermionic valve. Stainless steel. The tank. The television. Penicillin. The jet engine. Radar. The programmable digital computer. Foundational theoretical computing architecture. The discovery of the structure of DNA. The hovercraft. Carbon fibre. Fibre optic communications. The ATM. The ARM processor architecture. The World Wide Web. Lithium-ion battery commercialisation. The Raspberry Pi. RISC computing architecture. Graphene. Deep reinforcement learning. The Higgs boson mechanism. The MRI scanner. The CAT scan. Dolly the sheep. In-vitro fertilisation. The monoclonal antibody technique. The discovery of pulsars. The BBC Micro software ecosystem. The cyclone vacuum cleaner. The structure of insulin. Constraint and logic programming. Prolog. AlphaFold.
Sovereign AI@UKSovereignAI
Introducing Sovereign AI, the Government’s new £500m venture fund. Sovereign AI will support founders from day one to start here, scale here and win everywhere. sovereignai.gov.uk
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This IMO is due to the lack of historical context which permeates the SF tech scene. Everything is either the Manhattan Project or the Dot-com bubble. In reality, humanity is adaptive and will renew their societies and institutions to benefit from the new affordances.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
Most people in the SF tech scene think AI agents will soon render them economically obsolete. The people at the AI labs know they're going to make a bunch of money but also think AI has a good chance of destroying humanity. Only a few people who basically worship AI are happy.
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My TL is also filled with hot takes on Cohen. +1 on the praise and his intellectual impact at GMU. However, I'm not sure why it is happening now?
Joshua Gans@joshgans
Why is my timeline full of some debate about Tyler Cowen? Actually, I see the deserved praise, but I don't know why it is there all of a sudden.
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The Prime Minister's AI Advisor. The new Chief AI Officer. The UK's best AI builders.
All in King's Cross, working out how to use AI to fix planning, education and healthcare.
Now that is Londonmaxxing
And London is just the start
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@nathanbenaich We can only dream! My neighbourhood coffee shop just allowed us to use laptops inside the cafe.
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@wsisaac does this mean I can use my laptop in a coffee shop and stay after 5pm
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Londonmaxxing is a great framing for what I'm seeing in the city. It's a growing vibe that believes in a more holistic pursuit of transformational AI. Very exciting times!
Ese Kpeji@EseKpeji
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