Sad to hear of Daniel Dennett's death.

I was lucky enough to interview him for Lunch with the Financial Times in 2017 in which he dazzled in talking about Rene Descartes, Alan Turing, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Donald Trump and human robots

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“I understand why there would be a correlation between neurodiversity and founding companies: if you don't feel you fit in a current structure, the most obvious thing is to build a new one.'

I'm sure Elon Musk agrees

Great feature from Sadia

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Next year? Some say AGI is already here:

noemamag.com/artificial-gen…

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“For a very long time, I felt trapped. There was no stopping or taking a break.” Sadia talks to founders about the mental toll of running a startup

In a Sifted survey of 156 founders 49% said they were considering quitting this year

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“At the far reaches of the universe lies a government job.” Fascinating article by writer Yu Hua on the changing mentality of Chinese workers

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In the words of Demis Hassabis

'We’re at the beginning of a new golden era of scientific discovery.'

“I wouldn’t be surprised if [AGI] happened in the next decade.'

DeepMind is exploring ways to 'ground' AI models to reduce hallucinations

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'We’re all-in on the UK,' says Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth of a16z

Great interview with Amy Lewin on the attractions of the UK tech sector and what he looks for in great founders Sifted

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When insiders think it's time to sell....

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Chinese and western scientists identify ‘red lines’ on AI risks ft.com/content/375f4e… via @ft

Generation Alpha (yup, new one on me too) is busy founding AI startups...

Fascinating report from Tim Smith Sifted

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“Down is the new up.” Downround IPOs are becoming the new thing in Silicon Valley Tabby Kinder

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I do not believe human-level AI (artificial superintelligence, or the commonest sense of #AGI ) is close at hand. AI has made breakthroughs, but the claim of AGI by 2030 is as laughable as claims of AGI by 1980 are in retrospect. Look how similar the rhetoric was in LIFE in 1970!

It doesn't have to be this way.

'We have the opportunity to re-shape a digital future that prioritises human well-being, equity, and autonomy,' writes Tim Berners-Lee on the WWW's 35th birthday

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Telegram hits 900mn users and nears profitability as founder considers IPO ft.com/content/8d6ceb… via @ft

Wait, what? Nationalise OpenAI?

Alexei Navalny: “Everything according to ‘Ecclesiastes’: what was, will be. But I continue to believe that we will correct it and one day in Russia there will be what was not. And will not be what was.”

economist.com/by-invitation/… from The Economist

Our latest visual story looks at what goes into manufacturing the world's smallest microchips 💻

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Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI ft.com/content/cd6eb5… via @ft

AI is very thirsty. By 2027 it might be 'drinking' the equivalent of half the UK's water consumption to cool data centres Cristina Criddle Kenza Bryan

ft.com/content/654411… via @ft

How fatalistic should we be on AI?— Geoffrey Hinton says he is heartened that a younger generation of computer scientists is taking existential risk seriously and suggests that 30 per cent of AI researchers… ft.com/content/c64592… FT Opinion John Thornhill