Strap in, we’re going on a ride from Westminster to the Isle of Man. This is the story of Michelle Mone and that £29m.

Finally published yesterday in Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, a solo-authored paper I wrote a couple of years ago, on making minimal models of financial-market traders slightly less minimal. It's open-access, free to download from rdcu.be/ddnFT

Another day of ⁦Voi Technology⁩ being absolutely useless in the centre of a large city. Navigate to where they say there is parking, and it’s gone. Like the gold at the end of the rainbow.

He’s a potent danger to democracies across the world. Watch our film about Rupert Murdoch

Water privatisation is a con. (Location: Thames Water HQ)

Complete bullshit. Pardon my french.

hmmm... newstatesman.com/politics/2019/…

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay (WMHD). And so here is my annual WMHD tweet about how, 10 years ago to the week, I had a stress-related breakdown, but got help & got better; been OK ever since. Not everyone is as lucky as me. Video & blog entry here: engineering.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/my-mental-heal…

It's funny how the "existential risk" narcissists seem unable to anticipate grid collapse, or a major solar event ⤵️. Both are now much more likely, and damaging, than their Terminator AI daily.jstor.org/the-carrington…

Woman submits legal appeal against UK tax authority, but seems her appeal was based on LLM/ChatGPT's hallucinatory "understanding" of UK case law (i.e., the AI made up a bunch of precedent cases as basis of appeal, coz they sounded good). Appeal denied. bailii.org/uk/cases/UKFTT…

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"Care for our loved ones but don't your dare have loved ones of your own."

I've worked in AI research for 35yrs. This article (which comes from a long-established Israeli magazine and seems very well researched/sourced) is the grimmest telling of the (mis)use of obviously risky yet deployed AI systems that I've ever read. 972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

The one and only Sarah Cooper is back!🤣

Do you ever have that thing where you read a paper & think "oh, i'll try to replicate that, it'll only take a couple of days, max", & then it's the only thing you work on for 6 months solid, & then you have an 87-page manuscript with 49 diagrams. That: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Wow!

Google are using Hinton's, Hassabis' and Jumper's Nobel Prizes to defend unlicensed AI training on copyrighted work. This is a huge leap of logic. Neither Nobel Prize awarded for AI work this week was for work that trained on copyrighted creative work without permission. The

Submitted <2 months ago; yesterday published online in Chaos, Solitons and Fractals: on evolutionary spatial cyclic games with ablated dominance networks. Thanks to the Editor & all at @ElsevierPhysics for fast work on this, & to @BristolUniEng too, obvs. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Worth a read... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…