Henry Franks

cto @climatepolradar housemate of many animals

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

The thing about "the UK’s tax burden is now at a record high", is that this is also true for almost all countries 📈

[Henry Franks @hpwfranks]

I wonder if it's a function of Microsoft being a ready made enterprise integrator/partner par excellence and anthropic needing to build that channel themselves - long context length, projects/docs, and now this (RPA team dream tech once working) all coherent with that lens

[Simon Willison @simonw]

It's interesting how OpenAI are doubling down on end-user-facing features like voice mode, while Anthropic are doubling down on engineer/API-focused features like code generation quality and being able to remotely drive a GUI

[Henry Franks @hpwfranks]

Sometimes ADHD feels like being windows in a world full of macs. But then getting diagnosed and meds is like when they released the windows subsystem for Linux and you get this tiny box of order in your brain but at the end of the day the rest is still windows

[Henry Franks @hpwfranks]

Valid tech sentence of the decade. Imagine scriptwriters coming up with this they'd get pelted with tomatos

[lucid @lucid_bound]

@joshmo_dev does bacon work with bun? when I try to run chai in fish my gerkin is complaining

[Henry Franks @hpwfranks]

Excellent and fair summary 👌👌👌 for what its worth, i think we need a proper overhaul of IP. In practice we'll likely get a hodgepodge compromise that the big orgs on each side love and still leaves the individuals under compensated for their work. Plus ca change

[James O'Malley @Psythor]

She'll come back at a critical moment as Sue White.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The sooner we pivot the critical discussion away from “the issue with AI is that it is isn’t broadly useful to many jobs” to “what are the implications of AI being broadly useful to many jobs,” the sooner we can start to mitigate negative impacts & focus on positive use cases

[vik @vikhyatk]

i have solved the riemann hypothesis, but i can’t figure out how to upload it to hugging face

[Henry Franks @hpwfranks]

"all this money were investing in phone lines just so people can have Geocities sites doesn't make sense"

[yoni rechtman @yrechtman]

In the last few weeks Goldman, Sequoia, and Barclays have all put out equity research that says “the AI capex boom doesn’t make sense”. That feels like a pretty significant harbinger of a major sentiment shift.

[John Rentoul @JohnRentoul]

Peter Mandelson on the the “shallow landslide”, on Talk

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Liz Truss losing her seat makes her the Tory MP with the largest ever swing to Labour

[@ShehabKhan]

[Darryl Morris @darrylmorris]

UKIP 2015: 3.8m votes - 12.6%

Reform 2024: 4m votes - 14.3%

The media narrative could easily be: why hasn’t the hard-right made more progress in the last ten years? But it isn’t.

[Henry Franks @hpwfranks]

...so...don't do that? Not the hardest risk mitigation strategy to implement

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

Legal scholar Jonathan Zittrain on the the risks of AI agents: "Give it a few goals, let it have a bank account, let it draw from the bank account to spend money on stuff ... and then who knows where it ends up?"

[Henry Franks @hpwfranks]

❤️ this whole philosophy

[Josh Miller @joshm]

if you want to know where @browsercompany is heading then today's release gives you the clues

it includes my favorite feature that we've ever shipped (as tiny as it may seem at first glance)

as always, here's the backstory on why this "small" improvement is such a big deal...

[Henry Franks @hpwfranks]

@hunchtools Been playing around for the last hour and feels truly AI-native design in a way I've not yet experienced. Some early UI clunkiness, but the seamless AI integration just breezes you through it. Crazy cool product 🙌

[Henry Franks @hpwfranks]

I'm speaking on AI and climate policy at Innovation Zero 2024, UK's largest net-zero congress! Register online to join my session! #IZ2024speaker https://t.co/JVfJnSuBJE

[Iron Economist @IronEconomist]

Ok, I have had enough wine to engage with this insane piece. It’s time to get started.

[Henry Franks @hpwfranks]

Such a great visualisation to make such a clear point so simply 🫤

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

Reminder that one can show that 'election' results in Russia are manipulated based on statistical anomalies in the official data

https://t.co/qeYERghecS

[Luca Bertuzzi @BertuzLuca]

This is a mind-blowing announcement. Mistral AI, the French company that has been fighting tooth and nail to water down the #AIAct's foundation model rules, is partnering up with Microsoft. So much for 'give us a fighting chance against Big Tech'. A 🧵1/8
https://t.co/WJtKNkq1K8

[Henry Franks @hpwfranks]

Whoop! Can't wait to show everyone what we're building, and will be for a long time now 🚀🚀🚀