The attention being paid to Tilly Norwood is like me turning up to your economics class and saying ‘you guys assume everyone is a rational actor and that’s just not true lol’
Andrew West
@awest.uk
IT guy. Photographer. Works for that charity, you know the one.
So many people with aviation psychosis claiming that the Wrights’ invention is going to reshape global geography when it can’t even go more than 25 yards
People are going to start losing their jobs to AI. We urgently need ways to deal with this, but the policy wonks still think it’s sci-fi and the academic commentators who they lean on are still telling everyone the tech is all hype, for some goddamn reason. It’s a bad situation!
The Guardian’s data centre reporting is needlessly hysterical (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-guardi...
The Guardian’s data centre reporting is needlessly hysterical
Less talk, more context.
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
It’s just predicting the next tokens after “the paper I would submit to win a millennium prize is” openai.com/index/navier...
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.
openai.com
Hard to see what BBC breaking news notifications are achieving at this point
Any MP who signs on to Burgon's motion is not acting within the national interest. We need more data centres – and it comes down to a question of security: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-case-f...
The case for Nightingale Datacentres
Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
Richard Burgon MP@richardburgon.bsky.social · last mo.I've tabled a new cross-party parliamentary motion calling for a moratorium on new AI data centres. AI data centres consume vast amounts of energy and water, put pressure on local infrastructure and make our climate targets harder to meet. We cannot allow their unchecked expansion.
The Imagination Library is a truly wonderful thing, a beautiful idea that meant so much to so many people at home and all over the world
Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · last mo.Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
Gonna briefly do an AI take: it used to be possible to have interesting discussions about AI here, and it's got progressively less so. You can't just think AI is bad, or overhyped, you've also got to subscribe to a very particular worst-case scenario about *how* it's bad and how bad it is.
Last August was dry, and I had to stay up late one night monitoring my parents’ neighbour burning his scrub in an impromptu bonfire. Nice line of trees between me and him. Little jolt of adrenaline every time a spark went their way. Some people are just not that bright and don’t watch the news.
Been testing this 'sign-language-to-text' (SL2T) for almost a year & it's so awesome to see this out! Looked at this almost a decade ago & knew we'd get the tech & ML models there eventually (but super challenging). Talking w/ some Deaf folks, an equivalent of 'voice-to-text' was huge for them
Putting sign language AI into users’ hands
Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.
deepmind.google
Just walked to a more westerly window in order to be closer to the sun
BIG NEW piece by me. A few years ago, if you asked me to summarize my entire worldview in one article, I would’ve said it was too broad and too difficult. But this year, I decided to do it.
Every disease is a policy failure
Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing.
worksinprogress.co
I get that the sirens’ song is inherently not composable. But Christopher Nolan has infinite money and any artist in the world would take his phone call. Maybe try *something*. Hell, get AI to invent a musical psychology and compose something that induces a compulsion oh no wait
There's lots of stuff LLMs can't do, but if you want to disbelieve all the recent math, you have to believe a bunch of Fields Medalists with long track records are just straightforwardly lying about the thing they care most about. Here's a recent blog by Gowers: gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…
gowers.wordpress.com
Tucked away in this article is an appeal to the AI skeptics to PLEASE stop writing off stories like this OpenAI accidental exploit of Hugging Face as a dishonest marketing trick Frontier models can find and exploit vulnerabilities now, it helps nobody to pretend that they can't!
the problem with AI is that it works, not that it doesn’t
conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · last yr.none of this is meant as an argument that LLMs are not dangerous or destabilizing or whatever. I actually think the stochastic parrot line of critique undermines the claim that they are dangerous. they're much more dangerous if they are reliable!
Tech commentary often has to be ‘what if now, but forever’, and that doesn’t work well when change is so rapid. An easy flipside is discussing power dynamics rather than the tech itself, and that’s very effective at riling people up, but the world still turns.
Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 2mo agoI still believe that everyone is too fixated on the state of play in AI right now (which labs are ahead, how to manage costs, etc.) and not focused enough on the continued steepness of the capability curve for AI At higher capabilities (like the ones expected in the near term), a lot changes fast.
Bear in mind the people telling you Binface isn’t funny think political cartoons are the height of comedy
"In mid-2026, autonomy is not just some hypothetical or highly experimental technology. Self-driving cars have already been invented, and are a thing that have existed in the world for some time."
James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · 3mo agoAutonomous cars do not have to turn Britain into an America-style car-centric hellscape (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/no-hellsca...
Since we can exercise discretion about breaking news alerts for overnight football matches, maybe fewer murder alerts at Christmas?
Quite fun watching the normie press discover ramageddon now that Apple has put its prices up. Thankfully there’s 6 months of deep dissection in tech podcasts that will help the coverage be sensible and informed.
It is weird that there is still a substantial set of people who believe "AI is mostly hype" at this stage: Five Eyes is warning about AI, exponential revenue & token use at the AI labs, unit distance/Erdos proofs, and so on... There are many real issues with AI, not being real is not one of them.
“I am appalled at the man blasting music over this very serious occasion. Anyway now back to gleefully reporting on successfully hounding another Prime Minister till they cried.”
NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order "safety" is risky. 1/
