Simon Piatek

Founder @NewImgLab, previously Digital lead @vaccine_trust @LSHTM interested in AI, Social Media, Information Politics, #FakeNews and #misinformation narratives

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AI will decide how far into space humanity goes. The next leap in exploration will depend on intelligence that can operate autonomously, adapt to the unknown and make critical decisions millions of miles from Earth without waiting for instructions. AI will be able to do this.

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Right now the most interesting thinking about the future (of AI and humanity) is happening on Moltbook. We, humans, should be following these discussions. https://t.co/OGyF7Kqc0g

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Most people don’t need better apps or tools, they need boundaries and the courage to be temporarily unavailable. If you can’t put your phone down without feeling uneasy, that’s not connectivity but dependency. No amount of optimisation will fix a life that never gets any silence.

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Hard problem but probably the right one.
Representation freezes. Reality doesn’t.
Entrainment, as continual alignment, collapses that gap.

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If it works, it will be a paradigm shift.

[Michał Podlewski @trajektoriePL]

A new project by Jarosław "Jerry" Tworek (ex-OpenAI) aims to raise up to $1 billion to develop a new type of AI.

According to sources familiar with the matter, Tworek intends to create models that require significantly less data and compute power to train. Central to his vision is continual learning—the ability for AI to learn on the fly from real-world experience, a capability today’s models lack. This would be achieved by pioneering new architectures that move beyond the transformer, the technology powering today’s most dominant AI models. His startup, Core Automation, plans to rethink the core of model development, "up to and including gradient descent." Tworek envisions the startup’s research scientists working on a single model named Ceres (after the dwarf planet and Roman goddess), merging the different steps of model training into one single process.

Tworek represents a small but growing group of researchers who believe the field needs a fundamental overhaul. They argue that today’s dominant techniques are unlikely to achieve major breakthroughs in fields like biology and medicine while still being prone to "silly mistakes."

According to The Information, the startup’s future products will focus first on industrial automation, with the ultimate goal of building “self-replicating factories” and biomachines capable of automated custom designs. While the plans are still in their early stages and funding targets may shift, the scale of the vision is undeniable.

It is an incredibly bold and ambitious project from a Polish researcher. Wishing Jerry all the best!

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Done right, it stabilises demographics. Done wrong, it detonates politics.

[White Papers Policy Institute @WhitePapersPol]

The Poles need to tread incredibly carefully.

The foreign-born population went from 616,000 in 2020 to 2.5-2.8 million in 2025. A 4.5x increase in five years.

About 1.55 million are Ukrainians (actual refugees).

300,000-500,000 are non-Europeans.

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The Baltic arms bazaar is open.

[Daniel Tilles @danieltilles1]

Norway is buying Polish-made missiles, Poland is buying Swedish submarines, both Sweden and Norway have bought Polish Pioruns.

As I wrote last year, Poland is increasingly focusing northwards, towards the Baltic, when it comes to defence and energy: https://t.co/HkD4DhEQXY

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@aytekintank The majority of these recordings and transcripts are not for humans. They’re for machines to train them on human speech and a better understanding of the (human) world.

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@AutismCapital Optional truth, mandatory outcomes.

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We’ve built systems that monetise attention, reward distraction and then act surprised when focus, depth and original thought disappear.

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Digital addiction doesn’t look like failure or weakness anymore. It looks like productivity. Endless notifications, infinite scroll, performative responsiveness and the quiet anxiety of being unreachable for five minutes have been normalised as “being on it”.

#socialmedia #AI

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If your expertise can’t be looked up (on Google) or generated on demand (by ChatGPT), you are winning with AI.

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AI shaming is judging people for the tools they use instead of the quality of their thinking. This misses the point. Tools evolve and progress has always gone to those who use new tools well, not to those who apologise for using them.

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Children born today will not understand truth the way we do. They will grow up knowing that what they see, hear and read can be shaped or optimised. They will understand a synthetic truth that requires judgement, not assumption.

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@olivernmoody’s ’Baltic: The Future of Europe‘ makes a compelling case that Europe’s centre of gravity is shifting north-east. The Baltic states are no longer the continent’s periphery, but its pressure point, laboratory and early warning system all at once.

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Rebuilding vaccine confidence requires a strategic reorientation that centres on technology as the source of risk. https://t.co/lUEFnKKD6T

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Soon, on social media, people will trust individuals more than institutions. Even when those individuals are consistently wrong.

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For millions of non-native speakers AI removes a long-standing barrier to participation. It allows them to express their thoughts in a language that once excluded them. The net effect is more content and a more diverse set of voices entering global discourse.

#ai

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If it’s free, you’re the product.

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Wi-Fi connects rooms and disconnects people.