DaveB retweeted
Her full name - according to her - is not Suzanne Ashman. It’s Suzanne Ashman Blair. She’s just been appointed head of UK govt-funded Sovereign AI & her father-in-law - Tony - has a ton of skin in…you’ve guessed it, the sovereign AI game.
🔔Announcement🔔
Suzanne Ashman, former General Partner at LocalGlobe and Latitude, is joining Sovereign AI as Managing Partner.
Suzanne, who has spent a decade backing founders who have come to define a generation of British technology, from Tessian to Open Cosmos, is one of the most respected venture investors in the UK.
DaveB retweeted
In Sunderland, Reform stood David Barker.
Who beat his girlfriend “black and blue”.
He also neglected and burnt his child with cigarettes. He was given a suspended sentence.
It comes up when you Google him.
He won in the council election.
He’s now a Reform Councillor.
DaveB retweeted
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This is so important but is being missed in the noise of everything else.
“Reform’s so called great repeal bill would scrap the Employment Rights Act, would scrap the Equality Act, take away rights of millions of hard working people up and down the country”
@nowak_paul General Secretary @The_TUC
DaveB retweeted
Reform UK said I was 'bullying' when I pointed out their colleague was jailed for beating up his former partner.
Now, they're trying to sneak him back into their party. So I'll say it again:
James McMurdock was jailed for beating up his former partner.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y9…
ALT Screenshot of a Times article covering McMurdock’s past.
DaveB retweeted
Creatives in the UK - please fill out this government survey about generative AI. It is a chance to affect their thinking.
(It officially closed yesterday but seems still to be accepting responses.)
surveymonkey.com/r/KNSJJB5?f…
DaveB retweeted
These are the tweets that got me blocked by the CEOs of Google DeepMind, Runway, and ElevenLabs respectively.
I asked about the work they train on - as simple as that.
If you can’t answer polite questions about this, what are you trying to hide?
DaveB retweeted
Incredible thread about the Reform UK Chair for Bath, Tim Nott.
He likes to dress as a Nazi, and has an interesting chest tattoo…
There’s reenactment, and there’s dressing as Himmler’s SS.
Shall we have a bit of February fun? Here's a true story thread about @reform4bath and the weekend activities of their branch Chair, Tim Nott. Feel free to have a delve @johndarvall @BathEcho @john_wimperis @BBCBristol @somersetlive @TheWeekInEditor @richardwyatt @itvwestcountry
DaveB retweeted
hey @matiii, may I ask you something? Don’t you think it’s a legitimate question to ask how your models are trained? Your actions affect the wellbeing of third parties, & society as a whole. This isn’t some random gotcha question, it’s a fundamental part of public policy.
DaveB retweeted
One of your researchers, in a previous role, said he was “really excited” for the LibGen dataset (millions of pirated books), suggested using a vpn to torrent pirated books, and referred to illegally accessing pirated books as “cyberpunk coolness”.
Is this something the AISI agrees with? If not, what is your view on using pirated books for AI training, as OpenAI is known to have done?
DaveB retweeted
A senior product manager at Microsoft was telling users to train LLMs on Harry Potter.
Does the piracy have no end
Microsoft removes guide on how to train LLMs on pirated Harry Potter books arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…
DaveB retweeted
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