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Have noticed recently that Claude is ending each response with a question. While this is more engaging it feel likes conversational AI’s equivalent of driving infinite scroll.

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@elaksarayi @elaksarayi What is Incil about?

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@bcherny Easily the best invention of the Transformer / LLM age.

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‘In one study, AI organisms in a digital simulator “played dead” in order to trick a test built to eliminate AI systems that had evolved to rapidly replicate, before resuming vigorous activity once testing was complete.

https://t.co/fBm2mXD6b3

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@screenfluent I wish I’d kept mine as well as the ZX81

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@UniverCurious Toffler

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The Canada economic conundrum https://t.co/9CNKShyEV8

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Also huge impact in the bio space; incredible new cures but also manufactured viruses.

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AI will give us new abilities because of the “the plummeting cost of power” but AI platforms will be able to do more than we can, learn and evolve much faster than we can and make decisions for themselves.

https://t.co/H322MxG1K5

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There’ll be as many success stories as there’ll be horror stories

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Python in Excel!

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Sometimes what presents as malicious intent is simply incompetence

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Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group https://t.co/752Lej7E8j

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AI-generated content will eat itself (if it’s trained on AI-generated content)

Is artificial intelligence a threat to journalism or will the technology destroy itself? | Samantha Floreani https://t.co/CqLl1w7D5A

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Sometimes it’s a labour of love; sometimes it’s a labour of madness.

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‘We should think of the cosmos as more like an animal than a machine’

#cosmos #cosmology

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Images from my return trip to #Bagram #Afganistan

I’m describing how prisoners were hooded and their hands shackled above their heads to the cage door and punched and kicked.

I’m explaining how an Afghan taxi driver by the name of Dilawar was beaten to death after being tied up like this for days and that image has been engraved in my head ever since.

I’m explaining how US soldiers would throw Qurans over cell doors when prisoners asked for them or drop kick the book like a football. When we first arrived soldiers ripped the Quran into pieces and threw them into buckets of excrement.

An American Egyptian interrogator told the US soldiers not to allow us to call the athan, recite the Quran or pray in congregation because that allowed to communicate with one another. If anyone did, they’d be tied up - just like Dilawar.

We had two small bottles of water per day. If we used them to wash or make wudhu we’d have nothing to drink. So most made tayammum. I did so for a year and forgot the correct sequence of wudhu by the time I arrived in #Guantanamo.

Despite this, I’m also telling them how I managed to memorise Surah Al-Baqarah - the largest chapter of the Quran - in this very spot.

Im explaining how they’d built tiny one square metre isolation cells and kept us there for days on end during interrogation periods.

I’m telling them about the screams of the woman I used to hear I thought was my wife; and how news of the birth of my son reached me here.

Im retelling them how I saw all of this in a vivid dreamI had 8 years before I came to Bagram.

I’m describing how British intelligence agents - who’d questioned me in UK several years before - came here many times and interrogated me while prisoners were screaming and tortured to death.

Other than Guantanamo, I lived in this place away from home longer than anywhere else, so I knew it very well.

This place is now abandoned and very dark - both physically and metaphorically.

Returning here was an indescribable experience. I couldn’t help but to breakdown when recounting my thoughts and memories.

It’s no longer a torture facility but I did ask that IEA preserve some part of the place so that it’s never forgotten. They said they intend to do so but also they’d like to make it into a centre of learning, where young people can study for the future without forgetting the darkness of the past.

*Deepest gratitude to #Afghan former Bagram and #Gitmo prisoners, families and very helpful #IEA officials for helping to make this happen. Images courtesy of @ShnizaiM.

The film should be out in a few months @AJEnglish #Witness in sha Allah.

May Allah accept the efforts and sacrifices of all involved.

الحمد لله حمدا كثيرا طيبًا مباركا

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‘ The thing nobody talks about is that in 10 years we'll have a million bipedal robots and in 25 years we'll have a billion. You’ll buy yours for $10k and it will be as important to your life as your smartphone is now’ - Vinod Khosla

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A student’s guide to the University of Organic Intelligence – the Stephen Collins cartoon https://t.co/WrBZsrJyzz