Godfather of AI: "If you sleep well tonight, you may not have understood this lecture."
This 47-minute lecture is the best thing I saw about AI in the last few months.
It will definitely help you understand how it actually works and where it's going.
Geoffrey Hinton built the neural networks behind every AI alive, then quit Google to warn the world about it.
The part nobody wanted to hear:
> AI is already developing abilities its creators didn't intend
> in most cognitive tasks it's already ahead of us
> the question is no longer if it surpasses us but when
> the only decision left is which side of that line you're on
Right now the average person opens Claude, types something, gets an answer, closes the tab.
They think they're using AI. they're using maybe 10% of it.
I went through his entire lecture, then mapped everything he described to what Claude can actually do today.
17 Claude features most people will never find on their own.
Full breakdown in the post below.
@MickyJnr__ Senegal has appealed the reversal of their win. So Morocco are not AFCON champions, pending the outcome of the appeal from the Court of Appeals for Sport CAS - to which the appeal had been referred.
Chelsea Football Club is delighted to announce the appointment of Xabi Alonso as Manager of the Men’s Team.
The Spaniard will begin his role on July 1, 2026, having agreed a four-year contract at Stamford Bridge.
Welcome to Chelsea, Xabi!
@ChristClan Pirates will finish on 67 points. Sundowns will win the league. Unfortunately Sundowns are just spectators right now. Can't influence anything.
🚨 After Benfica's 2-2 draw against Braga on Monday, José Mourinho's Benfica remain the only team in Europe's big leagues to be 𝗨𝗡𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗡 this season.
They are 1 game away from becoming 𝗜𝗡𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗦 in Portugal's Primeira Liga.
However, they 𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗪𝗜𝗡 the league.
That draw means that - despite being 33 games out of 33 without defeat - they are 8 points behind FC Porto because they've drawn 11 matches.
The Phala Phala judgment is not really a judgment on President Cyril Ramaphosa himself, it is a judgment on parliamentary procedure and accountability.
My view is that ordinarily, if this had happened during the first term of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency, he would probably have resigned and not wait to be impeached.
But because of the nature of South African politics today, particularly the so-called Government of National Unity, which is in reality a coalition government involving multiple parties led by the ANC, I do not think those seeking to impeach him have the numbers.
You need the Democratic Alliance to successfully impeach President Cyril Ramaphosa. But the DA would not want Ramaphosa to be removed because his impeachment could collapse the GNU altogether.
The likely alternative would be Deputy President Paul Mashatile, who is politically to the left of Ramaphosa and would probably be more open to a coalition arrangement with the EFF and MK, something both big business and the DA clearly do not want.
So I think this is ultimately an academic judgment that is unlikely to result in Cyril Ramaphosa being successfully impeached. The only real possibility is if he decides to leave of his own accord rather than face a prolonged political battle, but I doubt that too.
I suspect that big business in South Africa is already making calls behind the scenes urging him to stay put. I also think the DA will quietly be doing the same thing, reassuring him that they are unlikely to support any impeachment process whilst sabre-rattling publicly.
In response to the judgment, the Democratic Alliance said that it would not support any wrongdoing, but ultimately politics is about survival, and it is very opportunistic. My view is that the DA would look at the bigger picture and not specifically at Cyril Ramaphosa’s issues, but at the bigger picture, because his removal would immediately, in my view, collapse the GNU.
And the DA would be under so much pressure, not just from its supporters but from its financiers who sponsor it, to put the bigger picture ahead of a narrow political victory by removing Cyril Ramaphosa.
I have seen other comments saying that the DA would be worried about the local government elections and that this might push it towards supporting Ramaphosa’s impeachment. But the biggest threat to the DA in Cape Town is not the ANC. It is probably the PA.
And the PA leader, Gayton McKenzie, publicly stated a week or two ago that he would support Cyril Ramaphosa all the way until the end of his term in 2029.
What I actually see happening now is probably the DA, the PA and others whose numbers could become significant in any impeachment motion trying to extract concessions on other unrelated political issues.
That is how coalition politics often works. Moments of political vulnerability are frequently used by smaller or strategic parties to negotiate influence, policy concessions or political guarantees behind the scenes.
That tweet from veteran South African journalist Clement Manyathela in 2024 is quite instructive.
But, as they say, time will tell.
South African Legend, Benni McCarthy has been honoured by British club, Blackburn Rovers at the club's 150th Anniversary Gala Dinner.
Alan Shearer was also among the seven Players honoured by the club.
Rise Mzansi: Inside the R50 Million party that hoodwinked JHB North and tanked at the polls.
Rise Mzansi showed up to the 2024 election with more money than almost any party in South Africa.
Not the ANC. Not the DA. A two-year-old party with zero seats, zero track record, and a former newspaper editor as its leader.
So where did the money come from? 🧵
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