#THREAD In October 2022, the UK Government Digital Service entered into an initial one-year contract with #Fujitsu, which “will be responsible for all the technical delivery, design iterations and 24/7 operational support” of the emergency alerts system tested yesterday.

It’s live! Alexei Sayle’s Alternative Alternative Christmas Message 🇵🇸🎄🇵🇸 youtu.be/jnbDn3ghqbk?si…

🧵 The historic NYT v. OpenAI lawsuit filed this morning, as broken down by me, an IP and AI lawyer, general counsel, and longtime tech person and enthusiast. Tl;dr - It's the best case yet alleging that generative AI is copyright infringement. Thread. 👇

Thanks to a lot of tech bros and economists getting Very Upset about degrowth, this article is now the number one trending publication at Nature. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Route And this, of course youtube.com/watch?v=NiduNJ…

Kate isn't really here any more There’s a timeline of Computer Weekly coverage here, going back almost 15 years: computerweekly.com/news/252509066…

MP blames Toby Jones & ITV for not making #PostOfficeScandal drama sooner.

Never Buy the Sun

The First Fleet arrived on 18 January 1788. Governor Arthur Phillip rejected Botany Bay because the Woolies there didn’t sell any Australia Day merch, choosing instead Port Jackson, which had a Coles, as the site for the new colony. They arrived there on 26 January 1788

I’m so worried about AGI

I'm hiring! Two postdoctoral research fellows at UQ News (Brisbane, Australia), to pioneer human-centered decision support in collaboration with UQ Medicine. Post 1️⃣ Human factors, HCI, or psychology Post 2️⃣ Human-centered machine learning Details: uqtmiller.github.io/recruitment/

Welcome Martin Gjoreski, visiting us in uq-hcc And talking about his work on AI and wearables in health

I get what he’s saying, but… hear me out on this… what if all the people who lose their jobs due to AI, what if we gave them new jobs in some kind of pod that could harvest their energy to run more GPUs for more AI? youtu.be/i-o5YbNfmh0?si…

In #Microsoft WorkLab, I note how Copilot helps meeting intentionality: microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/… See more from my Microsoft Research BREW team & interns at aka.ms/brewresearch & at #CHI2024 in 🧵 Lev Tankelevitch Payod Panda Ava, Warren Park, Becky Spittle, Tom Cashman

So here's a story of, by far, the weirdest bug I've encountered in my CS career. Along with Maciej Wołczyk we've been training a neural network that learns how to play NetHack, an old roguelike game, that looks like in the screenshot. Recenlty, something unexpected happened.

Trump fought the law and the law won.

Another great day at AI for Good 🇺🇳 #AIforGood talking about #uqflorence and exploring all of the really interesting work being done UQ School of EECS UQ Engineering and Technology

Janet Wiles presenting on human-centered social robots for good - the importance of designing with not for and how we need to develop new ways to ensure that people can be involved throughout the design process AI for Good 🇺🇳 #AIforGood UQ News UQ School of EECS uq-hcc

Happy birthday to Mike Joyce, born in Manchester on this day in 1963. He would go out tonight but he hasn't got a stitch to wear.

Thanks for the plug, Rishi 👍