The!TGuy

“ Fear guides the restriction to our Ambition … “

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Mark Carney’s outstanding Davos speech. His best speech yet, I think!
Here it is in full.

[Grace Child @GraceChild1]

Now this is the video ✍️that we needed. Thank you

#exploreuganda
#Uganda

[Ghana Women National Teams 🇬🇭 @GhanaWNT]

🎈 Congratulations to our Sisters, @NGSuper_Falcons on winning the 2024 edition of the WAFCON! 🙌🏾

🇬🇭 ❤️ 🇳🇬

#NaijaStrong #MissionX

[iAm Uncle Mo @mkiboneka]

Invitation to domestic tourism. This should be you. #UniquelyOurs

[Harry Kane @HKane]

🏆

[Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Qatar @MofaQatar_EN]

Statement | Qatar Welcomes the Signing of the Declaration of Principles between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda

#MOFAQatar

[The!TGuy @MacRango]

@mtnmomoug How often is the credit scoring done? What are the chances of getting a better credit limit post this re-score

[ARCHIVED - NASA Sun & Space @NASASun]

Parker Solar Probe has made history.

After seven days of silence, Parker has resumed communication with Earth, confirming it's healthy after soaring just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface — the closest a human-made object has ever been to a star.

https://t.co/YgLBDsRlGy

[ESPN UK @ESPNUK]

Christmas mood 😂🥘

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

ADEMOLA LOOKMAN IS NAMED THE 2024 CAF MEN'S AFRICAN PLAYER OF THE YEAR 🇳🇬

🏆 Europa League winner
🏆 Atalanta Player of the Season
🏆 Named in Europa League Team of the Year
⚽️ Hat trick vs. Leverkusen in the Europa League final
⚽️ 18 G/A in Serie A last season
⚽️ 16 G/A in Serie A and UCL so far this season
⚽️ Goals in the AFCON Last 16 and quarterfinal

An incredible year 👏

[Nyama Soft 🖤 @__cadbury]

Exactly 2 years ago, I relocated to London from Nairobi.
Here's what I have achieved or learnt in the past 2 years. A thread

1. I’ve learnt how to say INNIT with a London accent.

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

BREAKING: Botswana filled their biggest stadium to welcome back sprinter Letsile Tebogo and their #Olympics team

[Sayal @bhattarai7878]

Winning moment for Uganda🏏
Look at the emotion👏👏
Thats why associate cricket is ❤👏👏
Congrats @CricketUganda
#T20worldcup #UGAvPNG

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨 The AI-powered internet is here. This is what is happening while you sleep and some of its legal implications:

➵ Social networks, news websites, media repositories, and every website we usually visit to consume or post content are becoming AI-Training-As-A-Service platforms. Through content licensing deals, the user content is transferred to AI companies (such as OpenAI) to train their AI models. Companies like Meta, which have the user data AND the AI models, are editing the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service to state that all user data is fair game for training their AI.

➵ The remaining websites, including major e-commerce and gaming platforms, are heavily incorporating AI functionalities and tools and incentivizing users to create or edit content using AI.

➵ Given the ongoing cycle of data input, output, and recycling for AI training and the ubiquitous "create with AI" functionalities, it looks like soon, all the information available will be synthetic.

➵ This is the beginning of the transition from an ad-based internet into something else. This something else will be AI-powered, synthetic, fast-paced, personalized, biased, and with less human autonomy.

➵ Why less human autonomy? In the AI-powered internet, supporting autonomy is inefficient, as the AI-powered chatbot or agent can quickly output a single answer based on the whole internet (instead of a list of links, as in a search engine).

➵ The AI-generated output will be designed to please the user based on what the model already knows about the user and their biases.

➵ The model will also reflect its developers' biases, as they will be the decision-makers regarding which content should be allowed and which should not and what the model objectives, rules, and guardrails are.

➵ "Truth" and "facts" will become outdated concepts, as everything will be digested by immense AI models, synthesized, and personalized back to the user. There will be no place for consensus or universal truths. If you thought that there were "bubbles" in the ad-supported internet, this will not even be an issue in the new internet, as each one will have their own personalized AI-powered web.

➵ In terms of legal effects, besides the already existing AI-related challenges affecting data protection, consumer, and intellectual property law, I see big clashes in constitutional law, especially regarding free speech issues, which will be heavily modulated through AI systems' specifications.

➵ It will be difficult (if not impossible) to scrutinize and control every "free speech-related" micro decision by the AI model, especially when these decisions happen a billion times a day. As a result, AI systems (and their developers) will largely control how and what we can read, say, or think.

➵ I'm an optimistic person, and I think we'll find creative ways to overcome the ongoing and upcoming challenges. The earlier we notice the challenges, the better.

[NTV Kenya @ntvkenya]

President Ruto: Yesterday my daughter told me 'I must go to General Ogolla's funeral and I want to speak'.

I told her 'there's no where you're going and there's no way you're going to speak anywhere'... Before I could notice, she was on the microphone.

#KDFHelicopterTragedy

[Parliament Watch @pwatchug]

Gov’t has proposed to impose a 5% withholding tax on gains earned from the sale of; land in cities & municipalities, sale of rental property & sale of shares in a private company. Taxpayer are required to remit this money to URA within 15 days after disposal of the assets or pay fines if the tax isn't remitted within the stipulated period.

The details are contained in clause 3 of the Income Tax Amendment Bill 2024 that was tabled before Parliament recently.

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨BREAKING: The US Office of Management and Budget released a memorandum that requires government agencies to hire Chief AI Officers (CAIOs). They will be responsible for:

➵ Coordinating Agency Use of AI
➵ Promoting AI Innovation
➵ Managing Risks from the Use of AI

➡️CAIOs are on the rise.

➡️Full memorandum (including CAIOs' tasks) below.

➡️For more information on AI policy and regulation, subscribe to my newsletter.

[Sylvia Mulinge M.B.S @sylmulinge]

Our apologies to all customers affected by the service disruption we experienced earlier this evening. All services are back up now. If you still have an issue with the quality of experience, please inbox us on @mtnug

Thank you for your patience. 🙏🏾

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨BREAKING: India chooses a different path from the EU and lets generative AI developers self-regulate and label their own products. Here's what happened:

On Friday, a new advisory of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in India established that:

“Under-tested/unreliable Artificial Intelligence foundational model(s)/ LLM/Generative Al, software(s) or algorithm(s) or further development on such models should be made available to users in India only after appropriately labeling the possible inherent fallibility or unreliability of the output generated”

This new advisory dropped the requirement to obtain government permission to make their products available to users in India, as the previous official rules required.

It will be interesting to compare how AI development and governance will happen in India vs. the EU.