Gary Paterson

A theme park on Loch Lomond?!... I never thought this would ever be approved.

This election continues to be wild times.

Teachers Using AI to Grade Their Students' Work Sends a Clear Message: They Don't Matter, and Will Soon Be Obsolete A new study is revealing just how horrible AI is at grading student homework, and the results are worse than you think.

The only thing dumber than using chatbots to write essays is using them to grade them.

Research shows that supposed "AI" has a 33% success rate on this.

I find it deeply unprofessional to use a chatbot to determine a student's development and future.

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YouTube video by More Perfect Union What Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You to See

AI data centre gobbles up water leaving neighbours without basic supply.

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Thinking tonight of those in the Iberian peninsula caught up in the power outage which looks set to continue over night, especially those working to bring the state of emergency to an end and those helping the vulnerable. Hoping for a safe and speedy recovery.

Starting to see too much of this AI slop replacing photography in news media.

What a ridiculous and irrelevant image for a news story on university rankings.

An Entire Company Was Staffed With AI Agents and You'll Never Guess What Happened An experiment by researchers at Carnegie Melon University staffed a fake software company with AI Agents, and the results were dismal.

Expectations on what AI can do in the workplace are often overblown.

Increasingly so too are expectations on time required for good quality manual work because you should "just run it through ChatGPT"... even when it literally cannot do the task.

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Tesla’s revenue and profits tank amid political chaos Tesla’s crisis deepens.

Tesla’s revenue and profits have tanked amid political chaos. Tesla profits are down 71% year over year, and revenue is down $2 billion www.theverge.com/news/653645/...

ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it You never know...

Process three words has cost OpenAI tens of millions of dollars in electricity costs according to Sam Altman.

Makes you wonder how much energy is being consumed given that polite terms are a tiny fraction of user input, nevermind the AI output!

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Scientists find promising hints of life on distant planet K2-18b Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

Chemical signs that can only be life-based on earth discovered in abundance on K2-18b, and could be confirmed in as little as two years.

"This is a very important moment in science, but also very important to us as a species."

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EU to build AI gigafactories in €20bn push to catch up with US and China Up to five sites with power-hungry supercomputers and datacentres planned to drive AI ‘moonshots’

If AI is booming, why does the EU need to mobilise public money to "stimulate private investors"?

A lot of private money has already been thrown at AI and is slowing down; not convinced that public investment should step in when investors are questioning it.

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The post by Marco Rubio Met with Danish Foreign Minister Rasmussen in Brussels today to talk about the defense priorities shared by our two nations. We discussed the importance of increasing burden sharing within NATO and addressing threats to the Alliance.

A post by Lars Løkke Rasmussen Honest and direct meeting with @SecRubio yesterday. I made it crystal clear that claims and statements about annexing Greenland are not only unacceptable and disrespectful. They amount to a violation of international law.

This is what you call two different readouts of the same meeting.

Go Denmark, Go Greenland!

Excellent piece.

A favorite small, but revealing bit:

"Starmer’s press release suggested AI-powered cameras spotting potholes in need of repair. But what blocks pothole repair is not finding them, but that local council funding is down 40 percent since 2010."

Scotland's former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to step down as MSP at 2026 Holyrood election The former SNP leader says she will not seek re-election at the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.

A great number of MSPs are standing down in the upcoming Scottish Parliament elections.

This is perhaps a once in a generation transformation with so many seats now effectively open for new faces. Though I'm certain, at least for the SNP, we will see a lot of former MPs.

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The U.K. Pivot to AI Is Doomed From the Start Technology can’t provide the economic miracle Starmer wants.

Impressed with @foreignpolicy.com for this informed piece on AI by @davidgerard.co.uk

AI has its uses and is transformative to a point but its utility has been grossly overstated. Too few promoting "AI governance" and other such buzzwords understand how it works.

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Bonus that's easily overlooked: it took the AI two fucking days to produce that non-answer. This garbage produced nothing better than a Google Scholar search result but took TWO FUCKING DAYS to do so.

Scottish councils quit X A number of Scottish councils have decided to leave or step back from X, while others are keeping their use of the platf...

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Pretty sure it will still work with a good VPN but its still a pity that they have taken this decision.

Also dont understand the logic of maintaining Radio 4 which has UK-wide content but removing access to important stations such as Radio Scotland which is an important link for Scots abroad. I'm sure it will be the same for other UK nations.

"UK users who go on holiday (outside the UK) for a short period of time will still be able to use the BBC Sounds app abroad.”

Presumably they'll give accounts rights to do that. At the very least this should be extended to UK nationals serving or living overseas.

A weekly processing of a million emails through a chatbot LLM all on government servers with no clear application for outputs. Sure sounds like a good candidate for government waste.

Microsoft Backing Out of Expensive New Data Centers After Its CEO Expressed Doubt About AI Value After its CEO expressed hesitancy about AI's real-world value, Microsoft is backing out of the construction of new data centers.

AI has its uses but I do sense there's been a bubble around it for a while.

It looks like the private sector has cottoned on; governments are late to the party and now have big investment plans just as the private sector is turning away.

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Today I wrap up months of work coordinating project management & reporting for @oneplanetnetwork.bsky.social, alongside comms for 2024.

I have been grateful to support impactful initiatives and outcomes at key fora including the UN General Assembly, UN Environment Assembly, G20 & COP29.

Haunting photos.

Hard to process the devastation I’ve witnessed in the last two days. Still in a state of shock for those who have lost so much in such a short period of time. #NoWords 💔

Can better consumer information drive sustainable agrifood systems? 🌱📘

The latest @fao.org Policy Brief highlights how clear, accessible info empowers informed choices, reduces waste, & supports supply chain sustainability.

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🌍🍽️ Did you know? 1.05 billion tonnes of food waste is generated annually (UNEP's Food Waste Index).

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Big changes at Facebook leave me wondering how long until there's a similar X-odus to an alternative platform.

The attraction of Facebook remains its largely disgruntled userbase: people remain because people are there. But it was also the case back in MySpace and Bebo days until they weren't.

YouTube video by NBC News Jimmy Carter’s Habitat For Humanity Project Builds Affordable Homes In Nashville | NBC Nightly News

The world is a better place because of President Carter, with a litanay of successes in his post-Presidency alone; he has written the book on how to cede power triumphantly as an iconic example of a post-leadership, as well as his example of good in the world. RIP

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