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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · 13d

Astonishing figures. OAI might be worth $.5tn, but plans to invest that amount in US data centres alone. It will have to make even more to pay off investors. Only one example of a tech. company with a huge valuation financed by other tech. companies. Analysts predict a market correction - at least.

Nvidia to Invest $100 Billion in OpenAI

www.nytimes.com

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 20d

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’

Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Aug 31

I have to tell you, there’s a big difference between ‘absolute truth’ and a set of questionable generalisations that happen to match your experience.

Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Aug 9

Brexit has cost the UK creative sector an estimated €184 million.

UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · Aug 9

"Without a clear vision for culture in a post-Brexit context, the UK risks leaving large parts of its creative sector without the support they need to survive."

✍️ Kirsty Warner and @husseinkassim.bsky.social explore the impact of Brexit on the creative industries

ukandeu.ac.uk/how-uk...

How UK creative industries are navigating Brexit alone - UK in a changing Europe

Kirsty Warner and Hussein Kassim explore the impact of Brexit on the UK creative industries.

ukandeu.ac.uk

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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Aug 5

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Jul 23

Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'

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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jul 24

Good. Defamatory lying on social media is the aggressive business model of the 21st Century - pioneered by Alex Jones and copied by Candace Owen. It’s like a hostile takeover bid on a personal level. Horrible, disturbed and disturbing.

French president and wife sue rightwing US commentator Candace Owens for defamation

Owens has claimed that France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, is a man, and that French president is controlled by CIA

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jul 23

And yes, this isn’t atypical in big cities - in fact cities - in a globalised world, and the right-wing depiction of them as dystopic is nonsense. But the sense that they’ve simply got better does beg the question: better for who?

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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jul 23

Which is to say that the city, in general and historically, has got wealthier and many of the ‘once very deprived areas’ now have richer people in them. One example among many: Shoreditch. Sure, there are poorer areas, but poorer populations have generally been pushed to the outskirts and beyond.

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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jul 23

People aren’t denying it, but neither are they saying it.

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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jul 22

Yes, London is safer and ‘nicer’ than it was, as the comments show. But many of the good things people appreciate about the city here have been coincident with gentrification. There are still areas that are deprived and where there is violence, and most poorer people have been priced and pushed out.

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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jul 20

Estimates of amount lost annually due to decreased trade are £120-140bn.

Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · Jul 20

Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura

Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jul 20

I’m quite ready to believe that a good LLM could imitate, say, Nietzsche and even offer Nietzschean interpretations of different phenomena (although the quality and accuracy of them would be variable). But one of my questions is this: if Nietzsche hadn’t existed, could AI have invented him?

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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jul 18

Lovely, IMO.

Radie Peat & Daragh Lynch (LANKUM) - 'Hares on the Mountain' from episode 3 of 'This Ain't No Disco'

YouTube video by LankumDublin

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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jul 17

Massive Attack announce alliance of musicians speaking out over Gaza

Brian Eno, Fontaines DC and Kneecap say group will support those subject to ‘aggressive, vexatious campaigns’ by pro-Israel advocates

www.theguardian.com

Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jul 12

In the long run, doctors get paid more than MPs. Taxing Jeff Bezos won’t solve the problems of the public finances - wealth taxes will help, but won’t be anywhere near enough. Ask the IFS and the OBR. It actually *isn’t* an easy problem to solve.

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · Jul 6

As I keep saying: if it's truth you want, read fiction, not 'true stories'. Fiction writers are honest liars. They're not out to con you. If you want to read a redemption narrative about going on a long walk, read The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.

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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jul 4

The biggest gap in people’s knowledge about AI right now is to do with what it can’t do, not what it can.

'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'

Businesses that rush to use AI to write content or computer code, often have to pay humans to fix it.

www.bbc.com

Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jul 3

Don’t moralise?

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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jul 1

Really? Are the guardian blatantly pitching for the teen readership now?

Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jun 29

It’s in The Telegraph.

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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jun 29

I don’t think that many of the things you dislike about London are different to other Western global cities: Paris, New York, etc. They’re all big, expensive, crowded and unlike other cities in the country they’re in.

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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jun 29

Glastonbury media coverage reveals more about media than Glastonbury.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jun 27

Jeff Bezos appears to be wearing the wrong waistcoat for his wedding. This is a dinner suit (aka a tuxedo) and thus requires a dress waistcoat, which is cut lower on the body. He's wearing a business vest, which is designed for business suits. Needs a formal waistcoat like the one on the right.

Jeff Bezos wears a black peak lapel tuxedo with a formal shirt, dress studs, black bow tie, and a black business waistcoat. He's standing on what appears to be a boat. He's also wearing sunglasses.

Andy wears a black shawl collar dinner suit with a white formal shirt, black dress waistcoat, and a black bow tie. Mountains appear behind him and he's holding a martini. His Instagram handle is styleafter50

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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jun 27

‘As social inequality in Britain deepens, the problem gets worse: since the 1970s the proportion of working-class actors, musicians and writers has halved.’

Who represents Britain on screen? UK film and TV culture still has a worrying class problem

The narrowness of this field is bad news for diversity – we need greater breadth and depth when it comes to British culture and those who produce it.

theconversation.com

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