Seán Walsh

Interesting approach to deal with potholes…

We are delighted to be hosting @Kings_College’s very own Geoffrey Hinton (KC 1967), the Godfather of #AI, @KingsELab on the 26th of May! For more details, tickets and to send in questions in advance to Geoff(!), see: kingselab.org/events/geoffre… @Cambridge_Uni As is now usual at our E-Lab events, the members of audience asking the best questions to Geoff will be given a small gift 😀

In the NYT today, Cade Metz implies that I left Google so that I could criticize Google. Actually, I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google. Google has acted very responsibly.

Geoffrey Hinton has just quit his job at Google, so he can freely speak out about the risks of AI. He worked on AI for the last four decades — and developed the foundations for the technology today — and now says a part of him regrets his life’s work. theglobeandmail.com/business/techn…

Important to get this right! #Genderequality #WomenInSTEM @MECCambridge

"I honestly don't know if this is the last time I'll ever be in Northern Ireland" Poignant moment at the end of our #c4news interview today with former Good Friday Agreement talks chair Senator George Mitchell, who's 89 and has leukaemia [team @c4marcus @daibaker @chriseva]

@KamiarMohaddes @CambridgeJBS I love the gloriously radiant sunlight… the matt, resplendently bathing in the majesty of it all! 👑🥾🎓☀️😎👌😁

The new matt @CambridgeJBS is looking good

Huge congratulations & thanks to our Embassies and Consulates around the world for this incredible start to last week’s @RTELateLateShow for St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️ What an incredible global celebration of Irish music and dance! 🎶 This is #GlobalIreland

👀After 154 pages of tests of GPT-4, this paper concludes “Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4's capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system.” arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

Given only the ability to write and run code, models appear to understand how to..browse the internet, get humans to do things for them, and carry out long-term plans – even if they cannot yet execute on this reliably. 1/2 lesswrong.com/posts/4Gt42jX7…

One in four students at top universities in the #UK are regularly going without food and other essentials theguardian.com/education/2023…

On smartphones, social media and children's mental health: ft.com/content/0e2f6f…

💧 @Feargal_Sharkey is backing #SaveBritainsRivers It’s our joint campaign with @newscientist to rescue the country’s polluted waterways Find out more: inews.co.uk/category/news/…

Making opportunities available to all ensures an #inclusive and #diverse workforce. Dr David Lenihan @CambridgeEMBA 2016, co-founder and CEO at Tiber Health, shares his thoughts on the power of higher education to be an #equityenabler 👇 #iwd2023 #embraceequity

A human error that should have been avoided; a public infrastructure that should have been updated; young compatriots that should have lived! So much unreasonable pain! #greektraincollision | eKathimerini.com ekathimerini.com/news/1205681/t…

Sleuths are finding ever-larger numbers of studies that are partly or entirely fabricated econ.st/3EvI9uL

How we are planning for AGI: openai.com/blog/planning-…

Utrecht builds biggest 'car-free' neighbourhood in Merwedekanaalzone: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 10.000 inhabitants 🚲 21.500 bicycles 🏙️ High density/diversity 🌞 Energy-neutral 🚗 Shared mobility 🌳 Abundant green spaces 🍏 Communal gardens 👩‍🔧 Neighbourhood janitor By @nrc: nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/01…

Lung cancer screening with low-dose chest computed tomography has been shown to reduce deaths from lung cancer by up to 24%, but new strategies are needed to accurately predict lung cancer risk across a wider population hms.harvard.edu/news/ai-tool-p…

Ergophilia: Energy is what lets us carve out beneficial zones of order amid the ubiquitous and relentless rot of entropy. It's the ultimate enabler of prosperity, longevity, accomplishment, beauty, flourishing. I agree with Ezra Klein here... nytimes.com/2023/01/08/opi…