Paul Boldrin

"Labour MP Graham Stringer... who shares the RCP network’s interest in science policy" ie is a climate science denier.

Ooh, nice - pilot scale manufacturing of solid oxide fuel cells using 3D printing of ceramics! Some pretty punchy prices in there as well, let's hope they can hit them.

Yes, that's why I think AI at the current stage will benefit small businesses more than large. Large businesses will need to get that integration to get much benefit but small businesses can get a lot of boost from the AI being able to help with things they don't have deep internal expertise in.

He should put less energy into snails and more into writing an autobiography!

is not your focus you're not going to hire a proper software engineer and so AI can supplement someone who can write a bit of Python. Just a few off the top of my head.

AI meeting transcription tools seem pretty ubiquitous across big and small organisations. The benefits of AI for startups is obvious - you can't cover all needed expertise with only a handful of staff so can give pointers. Some people I've encountered are using AI for simple coding - if software...

Both the large companies I've had close dealings with recently had people at multiple levels using AI, seems like mainly for producing reports and presentations. One of them had this weird thing where lower people were using AI to generate reports which senior people were using AI to summarise.

The snail farm don: is this the most brazen tax avoidance scheme of all time? The long read: Terry Ball – renowned shoe salesman, friend to former mafiosi – has resolved to spend his last years finding ways to cheat authorities he feels have cheated him. His greatest ruse? A ta...

This article is absolutely a riot from start to finish. Imagine being a journalist taking a punt on investigating a weird business rates dodge and ending up writing this!

It takes bravery to say you like something and why, any coward can go "lmao what is this rubbish" and disappear back into the depths of the Internet.

Yes I think that's a big issue, also something that's already a problem that AI might make worse. But different from the question of can people use AI to do useful things, which absolutely you can.

I don't really need your advice on how to do research but I would definitely say don't be using these things for specific facts that you can easily look up elsewhere. They're much better for more general exploration questions.

I think that may be a sampling error to be honest. That is who is talking about using AI on social media. My experience is very different.

Wouldn't a better comparison be how much energy it takes to *make* 10s of video the conventional way? As in writing script, special effects, filming, travel to location etc. Might be a lot closer!

I'm not sure the results will be linear like that. I think AI will improve the competitiveness of new and small businesses relative to established and large ones. It may also speed up the development of new technologies other than AI. These could have outsized effects on the economy.

Yes, lots of discussion on the left about nationalisation but almost nothing about private pensions which could be the most influential form of capital.

Lmao, does anyone have a bigger discrepancy than this on the albums (played by me, a stereotypical bearded middle aged man) vs artists (played by other half saying "play Bob Marley" to the smart speaker (Kendrick is largely the kids playing "not like us" 5000 times)?

I guess also at a more philosophical level they may be trying to solve an impossible problem. It seems like for most questions a very brief answer is always going to be inaccurate in one or more ways and if you're forcing an answer to be brief then the AI is just choosing the best way to be wrong.

That does seem to be key.

But it's like if a car company said "It's too expensive to let people test drive our real models so let's just cobble together something which stinks, is noisy and can only do 10 mph and let potential customers test drive that instead"

I was more thinking of getting it to do simple formatting or compiling of data rather than actual analysis. For the kind of small scale bespoke data analysis I do it's not usually worth coding the data handling but equally copy-pasting lines of data is boring so if AI can do it then...

Definitely agree with this, AI is only really useful if you already know what you're doing. It's the usual thing of students forgetting that the point of them writing an essay is to learn how to research and write an essay, not because you desperately need to read an essay on that subject.

Yes, Google's actual AI if you put it in AI mode is pretty good so I don't know why they put that junk on the front page.

This article goes way farther in using AI than I have done, but I have gone far enough to know that "AI is useless" is a completely untenable argument against using AI. It is excellent for doing research and for generating bland yet functional text. Need to try it for data handling next.

Data can't describe everything in football but this is brutally clear on Spurs current predicament.

It's going to be adapt or die for heavy industry in the UK. Need to take advantage of the specific benefits of electrification as it relates to our likely energy mix otherwise it's going to get eaten by cheap solar powered industry in sunnier climes.

Every time with these cases I think about what would happen to me in my job if I didn't follow basic safety rules - in this case indicating or checking mirrors - and seriously injured someone because of it.

Choking the chicken.

I stopped watching at half time but not surprising that a) we're losing and b) had zero chances from open play

Ah yeah, I don't think it's good for kids. It's like a horse, it can get you to where you want to go quickly but only if you already know what you're doing.

Sorry, you're right, reading it back it was. I do think any argument about use of AI based on it being bad at science is doomed to failure though. Google's AI is excellent at science, anyone who uses it beyond trying to gotcha it will very quickly see that and it will undermine other arguments.