"The scheme aims to build on Britain’s reputation for producing hi-tech hits from Star Wars to Harry Potter, and is part of wide-ranging plans to drive the UK creative economy. The government has earmarked millions to support grassroots music venues hammered by the Covid pandemic, and is tripling a fund designed to find and support the next generation of homegrown superstars like Adele and Ed Sheeran."
"If I were an AI, I would be trying to slip something on to the internet that would carry out further actions in a way that humans couldn’t observe. You are trying to build your own equivalent of civilisational infrastructure quickly. If you can think of a way to do it in a year, don’t assume the AI will do that; ask if there is a way to do it in a week instead."
"If the government wants to get this group back to work, the success of policies to support older workers, such as the 'mid-life MOT', will be critical.""
"What AI "can't do and I don't think ever will be able to do", says Prof Reeves, are the "really fundamental journalistic tasks" of talking to real people about real events, of bearing witness and holding power to account. It's these skills that will become even more important if journalists are to survive in the era of AI."
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'Kirk & Compost'
Submitted by Captain Qahn on
"The scheme aims to build on Britain’s reputation for producing hi-tech hits from Star Wars to Harry Potter, and is part of wide-ranging plans to drive the UK creative economy. The government has earmarked millions to support grassroots music venues hammered by the Covid pandemic, and is tripling a fund designed to find and support the next generation of homegrown superstars like Adele and Ed Sheeran."
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/23585185.chris-makin-speaks-100m-film-m...
https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80sSbLzSuak
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/13/uk-government-invest-fi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwYN7mTi6HM
'Spending Habits'
Submitted by Captain Qahn on
"Where we end up is that we have something much smarter than us that doesn’t particularly want us around."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-australia-66129928
"If I were an AI, I would be trying to slip something on to the internet that would carry out further actions in a way that humans couldn’t observe. You are trying to build your own equivalent of civilisational infrastructure quickly. If you can think of a way to do it in a year, don’t assume the AI will do that; ask if there is a way to do it in a week instead."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Yr765g620
"If the government wants to get this group back to work, the success of policies to support older workers, such as the 'mid-life MOT', will be critical.""
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/07/five-ways-ai-might-de...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfGr4YT7aHo
"What AI "can't do and I don't think ever will be able to do", says Prof Reeves, are the "really fundamental journalistic tasks" of talking to real people about real events, of bearing witness and holding power to account. It's these skills that will become even more important if journalists are to survive in the era of AI."
https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/scarborough-and-whitby-...
lol
"Roberto Weeden-Sanz, amb l’actor Ian McKellen, el Gandalf d’’El senyor dels anells’"
Best not mention Lamb ... ;-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i-FtFyZJO4