…the risk of expectations being raised too high can backfire easily on AI’s hype men if investors decide the bubble is overinflated. “They just all run for the exits as fast as they can, and so things can collapse really, really, really fast.”

RT @Yuchenj_UW: If Jensen truly believed AGI was near, Nvidia wouldn't sell a single GPU.

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"We have probably all had an experience like this: an impressive polymath pundit or publication ventures into your own area of expertise, and you realise with a shock that they don’t know what they’re talking about." .via @ft.

Staff fear UK’s Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse - BBC News

#Uber is now often more expensive than taxis! Checked prices from airport to resort: cheapest Uber €100+ (some well over €200). Jumped in an airport taxi instead, bigger car, metered fare €62! Once disruption is done, platforms milk their market dominance for higher prices.

Uber’s dynamic pricing isn’t a game, it’s a battle that consumers are destined to lose. If world Go champions can’t beat AlphaGo, how could we outsmart algorithms by the likes of #Uber? Checked normal price, hesitated, it surged 50%. Called local taxi, rechecked, back to normal!.

RT @mims: The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy t….

RT @GlobeEyeNews: BREAKING:. ChatGPT CEO Sam Altman says people share personal info with ChatGPT but don’t know chats can be used as court….

I asked ChatGPT: 4.5GW = 3 nuclear stations, or 1,800 wind turbines, or enough to power 3M UK homes. Elon’s 50M H100s would need ~35GW. So… just the energy output of a small country ….

Running 50 million H100s would require an astronomical amount of electricity. Where’s that power coming from, within in five years?.

RT @thinking_panda: Congratulations to Team China🇨🇳 on winning the championship at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad!. Ranking -….

People often forget that government borrowing is essentially deferred taxation, as money raised today through debt will need to be repaid in the future, typically through higher taxes, reduced spending, or inflation. There is no free lunch.

RT @dr_alphalyrae: Everyone working in a STEM field should read this - ‘writing is thinking’.

". it stood for the virtues of decentralised participation while allowing for unprecedented levels of centralised control" - in other words, the so called "民主集中制"? . Big Tech can beat political parties at their own game .via @ft.

Would this team win the “champions league”?.

RT @orikron: 🇨🇳 In Shenzhen, self-driving delivery robots are now taking the subway during low-ridership hours to stock up chain stores. ht….

So AGI is not yet on the card? . OpenAI to take cut of ChatGPT shopping sales in hunt for revenues . via @ft.

This is so depressing! . ‘What reforms?’ City leaders underwhelmed by Rachel Reeves’ financial strategy via @ft.

“In the west, Tesla still owns EVs, they still have a clear lead on software-defined vehicles . China is a different situation. Tesla’s lead from a tech perspective is not nearly as clear, if there’s any lead at all.”.via @ft.

How sad - the end of academia as we know it! “Eventually these papers will all be written by an AI agent and then another AI agent will actually read them, analyse them and produce a summary for humans. I actually think that’s what’s going to happen.” .