
Amit Katwala
@amitkatwala
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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
Joined April 2011
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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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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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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"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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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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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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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.
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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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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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.
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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