Tom Quick

Autonomous, self-perpetuating sentient meat. Always loved em-dashes.

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

The direction of travel (across
the frontier labs, _maybe_ excl Anthropic if you’re generous) is both entrenched and grotesque

[Andreas Kirsch 🇺🇦 @BlackHC]

I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting:

2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight

2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose"

Not one safeguard survived intact

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

@bcherny The New Way of Things reminds me of dabbling with Knuth’s Literate Programming in the 90s - https://t.co/O4HtqSNdoW (except the 2 representational worlds of computer vs human have become one).

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

@CCfunkandsoul stop putting 2 lbs of funk in a 1 lb bag dude — funk’s gotta breathe!

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

@doctorow Now THAT is a sentence

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

@ylecun @balazskegl Arguably, in an actual (or perhaps simulated) physical environment, requiring sensorimotor engagement with that environment, rather than some more abstract notion of observing actions and effects.

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

@SarahAndCo3 I’m sure there was a burlesque performer who had an act based on a progressive jpeg of her loading slowly over dialup — involved her standing behind a ‘fence’ of horizontal slats and slowly and jerkily removing them one at a time in a not-quite-fully-revealing sequence…

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

Perhaps they were really both removed because of their extensive disinterest in using capital letters despite having access to some of the most powerful language manipulation technology on the planet…

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

After learning today’s news, this is the message I sent to the OpenAI team:

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

@SuellaBraverman Hail HYDRA!

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

@matthbooth Weird how birthdays work. You have your 1st birthday at the end of your 1st year alive. Your 49th birthday at the end of your 49th year. You’ve just started your 50th circuit around the sun. Happy birthday! (Sorry)

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

@Matt_Muir @mediaczar Excellent Orbital soundtrack! God that takes me back 🖤

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

@hostler I blame @nikroope with his tantalising #NFT talk!

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

@chris_hawkins @BBC6Music Listening from the “Justice for Lee Stanley” club, very quickly formed and disbanded 🤣

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

@minor9th Sex, drugs, rock n roll?

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

@DeathRebel I experienced very similar biscuity ennui with an orange ‘Club’ bar last week.

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

My wife bought herself some AirPod Pros. She basically lives in The Matrix now.

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

If you want to know what I look like trying to sound convincing whilst winging it with a camera pointing at my face, this captures it pretty well 🤣

[Percept @perceptaudit]

In our panel discussion last month, our CEO, @slightlywinded spoke about the challenges we'll face with following people's digital journeys over the next year.
https://t.co/4LCxQ2apTy
#DigitalMarketing #FutureofDigitalMarketing #PanelDiscussion #DigitalJourney #ClickAttribution

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

.@edgars_uk provided me a surprise #water -powered adrenaline-rush on my cycle ride this morning, as one of their delivery drivers simultaneously overtook and turned left into me, then shouted at me for "going up the inside". #twittergrumble

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

This is the item at the top of my todo list: 'Octopus dysfunction slide'. #fwiw

[Tom Quick @slightlywinded]

@patrickmoule @lydia_darling Serves me right for being smug - managed to post as my social data business instead of myself \m/

[Andy Rivett-Carnac @andy_rc]

On (another) low, low day this thread is a welcome ray of sunshine https://t.co/YLVGwBaEVB