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Right now, people totally misunderstand what AI is. They see it as a tiger. A tiger is dangerous. It might eat me. It’s an adversary. And there’s danger in water, too — you can drown in it — but the danger of a flowing river of water is very different to the danger of a tiger. Water is dangerous, yes, but you can also swim in it, you can make boats, you can dam it and make electricity. Water is dangerous, but it’s also a driver of civilization, and we are better off as humans who know how to live with and work with water. It’s an opportunity. It has no will, it has no spite, and yes, you can drown in it […]

• Tech : Phase-Change RAM - 3bits on 2 cells. Diablo 1 and the context of its development. US agencies buy people personal data. McKinsey states GenAI is the new frontier, and Accenture commits to invest 3bn in GenAI. Deepsea mining by Greenpeace.

• AI : EU says undisclosed AI-content will be illegal. Assessment of different AI models under the EU AIAct. OpenAI et al to support UK govt with priority access to the models. And BritGPT. AI and supply-chain.

• Bio : Holobionts (and wikipedia) - a step towards connected living systems? Possible cause of endometriosis found.

• Random: Maldoror. Four images of the future. Mechanisms for techno-moral change [PDF].

• AI & Work : Secret cyborgs at work, and about onboarding AI interns.

• DIY : Biomed bot. Neo4j & LLMs.