Treat yourself and watch this brilliant spoof from PoliticsJOE 😂

Trump and Putin 'IT WASN'T ME'
courtesy of swedemason & Jason Spacey

Not #Caturday 😉

Bing copilot tapping out whimsical commentary on my search results be like the BBC Grandstand football results teleprinters of the 1960s. youtu.be/yl6GK42UpCM?si…

2 x PhD studentships in King's Arts & Humanities on responsible AI, in conjunction with Responsible Ai UK: interdisciplinary research looking at technology and people. Funded at UKRI stipend rates paid for three years, with UK Home Student Fees also covered.
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Labour Party HQ: Vote Labour - we’ll renationalise the railways!

CCHQ: Vote Tory - down with the woke agenda to fix everything we’ve f*cked up.

TFW you’re so mad about people parking outside your house that you just can’t think straight

It’s me - come and see my new AI show (work in progress) at the Brighton Fringe - it’s “Siri-lousy Funny”!!! brightonfringe.org/events/siri-ou…

Come and see “Rejected Ted Talks”, our Southampton Science Comedy show at the Brighton Fringe brightonfringe.org/events/rejecte…

The public demonstration of the Dstl “invisible cavalry” research programme is a huge success. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

An actual human describes the problem of using AIs to analyse and evaluate reports and data. My interpretation: don’t ask for an answer from ChatGPT that you later rely on in court.

In the crowd cheering on Joel in the London Marathon and Siri can’t resist having a little dig. “Way to go, Leslie”

When professors buy supplies

Some days I wake up and the very idea that we have gender-distinguishing third person singular pronouns seems very perverse.

I think a very useful thing for AI critics to do would be to 'red team' their own beliefs by spending some serious time and effort (maybe with help) to see if they can get AI to do the things they say it can't.

If they are right, that is very valuable benchmarking information.

The story of modern AI

Well, damn

Me and Erin Beeston with our names literally up in lights outside the Contact Theatre in Manchester for Bright Club Manchester this week.

Nicki went down a storm at last night’s sold-out Southampton Science Comedy. Think you know about librarians? They’re information scientists, battling with the scholarly use of generative AI and a stock of funny stories to tell!

I had a wonderful afternoon Barton Peveril College this afternoon where I opened their new building and unveiled this amazing plaque. What an honour

What’s brilliant night and a lovely audience. I had a wonderful time. Thanks for having me.

In an article about the irredeemable weaknesses of the current generation of AI tech - reasoning, planning, persistent memory, understanding the physical world - perhaps the biggest burn is having to remind people what London is.