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Features editor @WIRED Author of TREMORS IN THE BLOOD + THE ATHLETIC BRAIN Co-host All Consuming on @bbcradio4 / @bbcsounds

London, via Bournemouth
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Peter Thiel and the other billionaires behind the Enhanced Games believe their ‘Olympics on steroids’ will usher in a new age of human enhancement. But what do they really want? . New story from me for @WIRED .
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Amit Katwala
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Hosting the main stage at #SXSWLondon today, introducing lots of great speakers including TS Anil from Monzo, Katherine Maher from NPR, Anna Bateson from The Guardian, Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia and lots more!
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Amit Katwala
2 months
Here's a clip of the world record.
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Enhanced Games
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🏆 FASTEST SWIMMER IN HISTORY. 🇬🇷🇧🇬 Kristian Gkolomeev breaks:.🏊‍♂️ 50m Freestyle World Record.⏱️ 20.89 seconds.💰 $1,000,000 Prize. 🇧🇷 Breaks Cesar Cielo’s 2009 record (20.91)
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New from me: The Enhanced Games, a version of the Olympics where you're allowed to take drugs, has announced a host city (Las Vegas), a date (next May) and a that an 'enhanced' athlete has set a world record in the 50m freestyle! .
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Amit Katwala
2 months
A Spanish newspaper is calling me "el hombre bionico".
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Amit Katwala
2 months
For the new episode of Superhuman I went to Tokyo to try out four extra robotic arms, and to Cambridge to test a third thumb.
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Amit Katwala
2 months
Japanese translation of Tremors in the Blood out now!.
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青土社 Official info
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その線の震えが映し出すのは、犯罪者の不安か冤罪の恐怖か——。嘘と真実のあいだで揺れ動く人々を活写し、人間の本質を照らし出す壮大なノンフィクション。. 4月30日(水)発売.アミット・カトワラ『嘘発見器の発明者たち——真実に取り憑かれた人々の物語』五十嵐加奈子訳.
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Amit Katwala
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Spent the last few months working with @WIRED's amazing video team on a YouTube series called 'Superhuman'—about the tech pushing humans to the limit. For the first episode I went to South Korea to try out an exoskeleton that can make you run faster!.
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3 months
Obsessed with the Matrix aesthetic on the Japanese cover of Tremors in the Blood—coming out later this month! . 嘘発見器の発明者たち: 真実に取り憑かれた人々の物語
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"On Q-Day, everything could become vulnerable, for everyone: emails, text messages, anonymous posts, location histories, bitcoin wallets, police reports, hospital records, power stations, the entire global financial system.". New by me for @WIRED .
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Amit Katwala
8 months
This is a really fun story! My colleagues @WIRED spent the day following a Waymo driverless car around San Francisco for a glimpse of the future that's already there and that's coming for the rest of us.
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Amit Katwala
8 months
Tremors in the Blood is a Kindle Daily Deal today! You can grab it for $1.99 on Amazon if you're in the US. It's about liars, charlatans, and the illusion of justice, in case any of those things happen to be on your mind this week. @crookedlanebks.
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Amit Katwala
9 months
Factuality is a made up word! . I think they mean 'accuracy' – as in 'Accuracy is one of the biggest problems with AI' . Maybe something to fix before you start charging people subscription fees and destroying the environment.
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OpenAI
9 months
Factuality is one of the biggest open problems in the deployment of artificial intelligence. We are open-sourcing a new benchmark called SimpleQA that measures the factuality of language models.
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9 months
"He put down his phone, picked up his stepfather’s .45 caliber handgun".
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Amit Katwala
9 months
There's a common thread to these stories and it's not just smartphones. "The hunting rifle his parents had given him for his 13th birthday" . "went upstairs, found her father’s gun" . "shot herself with a .22 that she had received for Christmas".
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Amit Katwala
9 months
RT @WIRED: A cluster of European cities within a five-hour train ride of London could become a unicorn factory to rival Silicon Valley, arg….
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Amit Katwala
9 months
Maybe this ages me, but if I click on what I thought was an article and it turns out to be a video I will either close the page and find something else or go straight to the AI-generated transcript.
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Amit Katwala
9 months
But also video (especially social video) is a horribly inefficient medium! Two minutes to watch someone slowly read out something you can read in five seconds.
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Sarah Manavis
9 months
Wrote about that Atlantic piece and the rise of "efficiency" when it comes to consuming information – getting news from TikToks, condensing emails into AI "summaries" or only reading excerpts of books – and what we lose in the pseduoproductivity of brevity
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Amit Katwala
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Having a baby has really messed up my Spotify algorithm. I think the automated DJ thing is going haywire from the combination of nursery rhymes and white noise because it just served me this:
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