A while since I updated my personal blog/site, but here's an entry that talks about writing my new book on #ArtificialIntelligence, including how I worked with #AI on the final chapter. I hope "50 AI Ideas You Really Need to Know" lives up to its title.

Mathematics can be very beautiful, and sometimes progress leads to simplification and wonderful insights. This is Euler's identity, showing how the five most fundamental numbers are related in one simple equation. But it also hints at the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. Once

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RT @arstechnica: Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

I've long worried how future governments will be able to pay for public services, and even things like universal basic income (UBI), when dominant global corporations avoid tax in many jurisdictions. Here's a novel approach to maintain the flow of money into treasury coffers.

Looks scary here, but, very soon, technology built around this will be in use everyday. We'll all buckle safely up, but I expect most people will take short flights in the next 5-10 years.

"Save the foothill yellow-legged frogs!" . Here's a joyous example, if the opportunity arises, of how to beat the crazed environmentalist "vegetable lobby" at their own game. Sometimes you have to use their own weapons against them. #LFG🚀.

RT @AFitzgerald1992: The British industrial revolution was by far and away the single most consequential thing that has ever happened for h….

Once upon a time, in my growing up, the greatest show on TV was #Blakes7. Proper space opera, Humans taking their first steps, wading out into the cosmic ocean. Even today, I vividly recall the staggering, cliffhanger ending to Series 2. This looks amazing

Who could have imagined in the late 1960s/early 1970s that no one would have flown beyind low Earth orbit since 1972? That, in 2025, you would be able to count the number still alive who had, on just one hand. Jim Lovell was one of the greats and we mourn his passing, just as we.

V exciting to see the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) gas potentially observed a new gas giant exoplanet in our neighbouring Alpha Centauri solar system What's key is that planet would have potentially habitable moons! Straight out of the plot of Avatar.

The race to the #Moon is well and truly happening in earnest now. Will America return first or will the impressive march of Chinese lunar exploration see them land taikonauts before US astronauts? At this stage, I wonder what defines the US critical path in terms of timing.

Today we remember #Hiroshima, 80 years on from the first atomic bomb being used in war. Such a weapon would nowadays just be the detonator for a much more powerful hydrogen bomb. I grew up terrified of nuclear war (I was that generation). But at least it.

This is the greatest time in Human history to be alive. Revel in it. "Earth is the cradle of Humanity, but you cannot stay in the cradle for ever. It is time to go forth, be a starfaring civilization, be out there among the stars, expand the scope & scale of Human consciousness"

Tremendous news. We can only become a spacefaring multiplanetary species if we develop reliable, energy dense solutions like these. Great for Earth too, as well as on the Moon. Nuclear (initially fission but fusion some time soon) is the future, for locations like Mars (which.

What if consciousness isn't some natural manifestation of "high" intelligence?. What if it's a by-product of the constraints faced by Humans, such as our low bandwidth and limited brain size? And will be lost in a future where Humans merge with AI, or one in which AI takes over?.

RT @pgodfreysmith: Octopuses are reported to fall for the "rubber hand" illusion. Very interesting new paper in @CurrentBiology by Sumire….

There was a time when V for Vendetta looked farfetched dystopian fiction. Yet now, in Keir Starmer's UK, both online and physical protest are being silenced. Free speech is curtailed. And most of what's happening, for mysterious reasons, goes unreported in the legacy media.

RT @ThatAlexWoman: Two Afghan Migrants kidnap, strangle and rape a little 12 year old girl . If that doesn’t make you furious, there is som….

RT @Miles_Brundage: You should not have to trust whether an AI CEO "cares about safety" any more than you should have to trust an airline C….

Have these Halo Glasses on preorder. While just at the beginning of the AI era, this sort of AI memory assist could become a real game changer for people in the future. Open source too. Good work from @brilliantlabsAR