Andy Bell

Building @helpfirstai. Helping vulnerable people get the priority they deserve.

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

Fly tipping in Britain. This is why we have a problem. Incentives.

[Andy Bell @bellomatic]

If you want an example of how AI can improve the world, watch this first 30 secs of this video

[Trellis @trellis_edu]

How Trellis Transformed My Teaching

"I no longer think, when someone suggest a meeting, oh goodness that's a whole load more paperwork to deal with. I can just think about the child... which is amazing."

Watch the full video below:

[Andy Bell @bellomatic]

@helpfirstai Very exciting to be getting this feedback. A reminder that AI can be a force for good and help solve some of society's most pressing problems.

[Trellis @trellis_edu]

Teacher say Trellis is a "game-changer" and "Trellis has already helped me be more present”‍

We know the pressure SEN and ASN teachers are under. Feedback from the Trellis pilot is starting to roll in, and it shows that we’re moving the needle for educators on the front lines.

[Andy Bell @bellomatic]

3 Tickets for A Christmas Carol @ Old Vic - TONIGHT, 30th Dec

Price: £30 each (£25 less than face value)
https://t.co/KFhyMS028l
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#OldVic #AChristmasCarol #theatre
@Twickets @OldVicTheatre

[Andy Bell @bellomatic]

@helpfirstai Energised to see the reaction from Scotland educators and education leaders.

[Trellis @trellis_edu]

We demo'ed our new product https://t.co/oYLGkgSIYA at Learning Places Scotland last week - https://t.co/P4WwAnfuTB

[Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes]

City AM has actually made an (understandable!) mistake in the lede here. The 76 children figure is *per bat*. With the total budget of the bat tunnel, we could have saved at least 22,800 children from malaria, or housed 6,600 British families for a year.

[Luke Johnson @LukeJohnsonRCP]

Of course manufacturing is in decline. Britain has the highest electricity costs in the developed world. The lunacy of NetZero in real life - rather than the fantasy of a ‘green superpower’.

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

Imagine my surprise at learning that the Online Safety Act is why OpenAI has blocked Sora in the UK, putting us in the same impoverished position as the European Union.

https://t.co/zgzKiJvTzV

[Andy Bell @bellomatic]

@Barney_H_Y @patmcfaddenmp @demishassabis @NStoronsky @TSMonzo @alexgkendall @CivTechScotland 2) Open competition - everyone gets a fair crack at the problem. The government get a wide variety of ideas
3) Properly funded - govt problems are tricky and complex. They need good teams to spend years on them, not just pro bono time.

[Andy Bell @bellomatic]

@Barney_H_Y @patmcfaddenmp @demishassabis @NStoronsky @TSMonzo @alexgkendall The challenge is structuring it right. Startups and governement are so different that you can just sprinkle a bit of startup dust on tricky problems.

@CivTechScotland points the way

1) They spend time defining the problem, so startup teams have a clear ideas what to work on

[Sam Knowlton @samdknowlton]

Recycling is a psyop to convince people that plastic can be used abundantly and sustainably without consequences.

Of all the recyclable #5 plasticware waste generated in the US only 1% is recycled.

[Matt Clifford @matthewclifford]

This is fantastic to see: getting serious about nuclear is a foundation for so many other goals - including AI leadership

[Find me on bsky @colin-fraser.net @colin_fraser]

I'm really fascinated by this dataset from the AI poetry survey paper. Here's another visualization I just made. Survey respondents were shown one of these 10 poems, and either told that they were authored by AI, human, or not told anything.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The real problem with EU cookie banners is that they're still around after several years of achieving nothing but being an annoyance. Mistakes happen. The key is to identify them and correct them quickly. If you can't do that, you're on the wrong path.

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

I can promise you one thing:

If @matthewclifford had vast amounts of power in the UK political sphere; the UK wouldn’t be the Jaguar brand of the global tech scene. 🤷‍♂️

The man is brilliant.

[Matt Clifford @matthewclifford]

Really great and detailed piece on what it would take for the UK to win in AI infrastructure: tl;dr, get serious about nuclear. We have all the levers we need.

[Larry Elder @larryelder]

How people over the years spend their time.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Proposed design by @AriWagen. Looks pretty slick!